Jack In The Box Kona Coffee Shake

Why do more west coast places not offer coffee shakes?
Even in Georgia I could find coffee shakes easily but out here in good old SoCal the coffee shake pickins' are slim. Jack In The Box has been advertising they're Kona Coffee Shake pretty heavily so when it was time for my fast food dinner I opted for Jack over In-N-Out based purely on the shake (don't get me wrong Jack has some good burgers to- they are just not In-N-Out)

If I had any fantasies that the shake would indeed have the rich, deep goodness that a real cup of Kona coffee does, well that was very quickly shattered. That said it is a very sweet, light coffee flavor that makes for a pleasant shake. Actually the taste reminded me exactly of 'coffee milk' (think chocolate milk but with coffee flavored syrup in place of chocolate) which we made as kids with Coffee Time syrup:


Thinking for the shake in those terms it was pretty good. Expecting actual Kona quality from the coffee was just asking too much. Even if the coffee on the artificial side of the taste spectrum I still liked it enough that I would order it again.

Marvo over at The Impulse Buy tried one not too long ago as well. He was less enthused about it then I but be sure to read his review HERE

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Fresh & Easy Milk Chocolate Bar

Today I made my first visit to a Fresh & Easy store.
Fresh & Easy is a part of the UK based Tesco chain for those of us on this side of the pond from what I could tell from the Tesco website they look to be like Wal*Marts wet dream. Seriously, go to that site and check out everything they do. Maybe Jim From Jim's Chocolate Mission could chime in and tell us what the average Tesco is like.

Anyway, let's talk about the chocolate for now. Before I taste it I have to say that at a mere $.33 for 1.55 oz's it was a pretty great deal. The ingredients are straight forward enough: sugar, cocoa butter, milk, chocolate liquor, soy lecithin, salt and vanilla.

Upon opening the wrapper the thin bar is divided up much like a Hershey bar. The chocolate is a very light looking milk chocolate. The smell is sweet but pleasant. You can really smell the vanilla and the cocoa. On smell alone I thought it was going to be a good bar. The melt is very smooth and creamy.
Unfortunately this is where the praise ends. It's just too sweet. And I know I have said this a lot lately but it is also oil. For $.33 decent. For chocolate in general not so great. Of course if you stocked up on these at Halloween you could make a whole bunch of new friends with the kids in your neighborhood (kids don't care if it's too sweet!)

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