vendredi 3 octobre 2008

Twiglets

Do you like twiglets? well I do not.
I will start with the solgan : A whole lot of CRUNCH in a WHOLEWHEAT munch! If you like crunch you get a whole lot of crunch, that's for real, but the wholewheat made me a little sceptic, translated in german it means 'Schrot', milled things usualy whole grain, but it taste like 'Schrott', so milled scrap. I did even recognise a coffeetaste, and that was the moment I realised that the producer is Jacobs - a big coffee producer. Are they realy using there garbage to make a snack? well it taste so.
Here are the ingredients : 77% of wholewheat meal - a lot of garbage; as flavouring we have : yeast extract, vegetable extracts, spice extracts with celery seed (mmh, I'm no fan of celery), niacin, that's vitamin B3 and riboflavin, that's vitamin B2 also known as E101(yes, vitamins can be used as flavours and colorant, because E100-E199 are colours); vegetable oil; salt; dried cheese ('mmh, scrap from an other industry.' Twiglets are also called 'Sticks dipped in cheese'. Why? you do not even taste it immediatly and when you find it, it tastes worse); white peper. And it contains : milk, gluten, and more celery.
Under all this they wright : 'Produced on a line handling Egg and in a factory handling Sesame Seeds.' What line handling Egg? A giant mutant egg from where they get the niacin? And what sesame seeds? is that there whole grain? There is no sesame taste! Is that another proof for more scrap?
They do even say that twiglets can be enjoyed as part of a healthy diet and lifstyle. Ok, no one says that a diet has to taste good and who cares today if it's healthy, but lifestyle? It's Mr. Bean's favorite snack, who wants to be like him?
To end, this totally original snack comes from nowhere else as the UK, so it is not important how it tastes, because it's all about lifestyle.

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