Tuesday 15 March 2016

NEW! Toffee & Popcorn Galaxy Duet (Sainsbury's)

I'm a galaxy girl through and through. Give me any of their bars -the gooey salted caramel, the delicate ripple, or the delightfully crisp honeycomb to name but a few- and I'm all yours. I was extremely pleased therefore to discover that Galaxy have added a brand spankingly new bar to their duet range: Toffee & Popcorn.





I regularly buy both of the existing Duets*  because I'm very indecisive and love having two different flavours in one product. You'll have also gathered by now that I'm a big popcorn fan -in fact only yesterday I reviewed Butterkist's limited edition Hot Cross Bun Popcorn- so I was hoping for big things from Galaxy's newest creation.

The new duet bar consists of two fingers: one with toffee flavoured caramel filling, the other with popcorn & toffee pieces. Now, I guess that the idea is that you're supposed to enjoy both sides simultaneously, however I'm a bit odd and only ever eat one finger at a time, so that's how I'll review it -sorry guys!



The caramel side was exactly as expected, as oozy and soft as the standard galaxy caramel. In all honesty, I couldn't tell any difference between the two versions -but I love the original, so I was happy!



The toffee and popcorn finger contained very small pieces of popcorn, barely visible to the naked eye. The texture offered a combination of silken chocolate with crunchy pieces; some bites were more toffee than popcorn and some were the other way around. It's surprising that both components were detectable really, considering that the popcorn only accounted for 1.1% and the toffee pieces 0.7%, but they were! I loved the unexpectedness of each bite, and although both flavours were mild against the chocolate, they offered a novel twist.

I'm not sure I enjoyed this bar more than Galaxy's other bars, but it's certainly one I'll buy again and again.

Kev also reviewed the bar yesterday (check it out here!) and suggested that Galaxy create a duet with fruit in -I couldn't agree more. In fact, I think Galaxy should do a duet with biscuit down one side and sultanas down the other, tiffin style!

8/10

*when I'm not busy stuffing my mouth with Reese's!


6 comments:

  1. Thanks for the mention :) A Tiffin style duet bar sounds lovely!

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    1. You're welcome Kev! I'm glad you like my idea, they'd just need to make you a special gluten-free version :)

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  2. A tiffin style bar sounds like my sort of heaven! You should recommend it officially Amy!

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    1. Thanks Emily, maybe I'll start a petition...hmmm...

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  3. I definitely agree something fruity should be done! I would quite like Galaxy to try something strawberries and creme-esque, Ive never seen anything like that in their range before and wonder what it would be like. Can't go wrong with caramel though I guess.

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    1. That's a good idea! Although it wouldn't be one for me, as I wasn't keen on the Cadbury version... or strawberry roses! Caramel is pretty safe I agree.. x

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