Friday, August 22, 2008

Hershey's Chocolate Marshmallow Kisses

Chocolate, why do you beckon me from the mocking aisle marked 'candy'? Why do your lowest-priced, inferior varieties tantalize me so? In my head, I think of how I would gladly pay a premium price for some quality chocolate, but in the end it's always the same. My latest trip to Acme lead me down the same dreaded aisle. Bags of two limited edition Hershey's kisses were reduced to a hard-to-beat $1.74, and I relented. My sugar-addled brain screamed, 'Should I buy two, three bags!?!?,' but luckily I settled for one.

Lucky indeed! I bought Hershey's limited edition Chocolate Marshmallow flavor. Since I didn't read the packaging closely, I assumed it was going to be a Hershey's kiss filled with sweet marshmallow creme. A s'more without the graham cracker, if you will.

Much to my horror, it was solid chocolate. Hershey's plain, waxy, artificial, doesn't-melt-in-your-mouth-right chocolate! But it does have a marshmallow flavoring added to the chocolate. Technically, the kiss tastes exactly as if it were a chocolate marshmallow concoction, but, since there's no visual evidence of chocolate, the entire confection comes off as exceedingly artificial. The added sweetness, and the marshmallow flavor itself, becomes cloying after just two kisses, and unfortunately, there are more than two in the bag. All in all, it's time for Hershey's to discontinue this limited edition.

What I Should Have Bought: Nothing! I should have just walked away!

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