The Cherry Ripe Report

Shay Stephens

I debated on whether to put this here or in the Accessories forum, seeing as how these bars have nearly become as important as filters and memory cards...

First, some background. After nearly going bonkers with all the cherry ripe this, and look at me I am eating boxes of 'em, that, I finally decided to plop down some hard cash and order them over the internet.

They showed up mere moments ago from our friendly UPS guy. Both Jen and I have sampled our first bar. Now what has been missing all this time is a report on what they are like. So, here is my report.

Subject: Cherry Ripe candy bar
Taste: Like a Mounds bar (the one without almonds) with a cherry flavor and a reddish center color. About as sweet as a Mounds bar if memory serves.
Texture: Soft and chewy and somewhat fibrous with the coconut. With all the coconut, you have to chew this for a bit. Very pleasant. The chocolate tastes good, slightly more waxy than a Hershey bar. I did not feel any cherry's or get a whole or piece cherry sensation, it's mostly a coconut feel and cherry flavoring. There are pieces of cherry in there, but they are too small and soft to be felt, the coconut is by far the overwhelming mouth sensation here.
Reaction: It's a good bar, a little thinner than I thought it would be, but I would eat another. However, if the house were burning down and I could only save one candy bar, it would have to be a Snickers bar.

p.s. I am putting two in the fridge and two in the freezer to see what difference temperature makes on the experience. More info later.


Subject: Polly Waffle
Taste: Chocolate, waffle cone, marshmallow.
Texture: Soft with some crunchiness due to the thin waffle cone that encases the marshmallow. Chocolate covers the whole bar.
Reaction: This is an odd bar. I don't think I would buy another one. If I had one given to me, I would gladly eat it for the novelty of it. Worth it for the first experience. In a burning building, I would probably stop for a moment to watch it burn, then go grab the snickers and cherry ripes on the way out.

I thought I had ordered violet crumbles, but I guess I ordered the polly waffle by mistake. So if I get other bars, I will make a report.

dragon300zx

Are you nuts man :yikes. Cherry ripes so beat out a snickers. Now don't get me wrong snickers are still great. But it's the Cherry Ripe that will rule this world.

Shay Stephens

Coconut can drop kick peanuts all day long, this I know. Well, I have 4 bars left, so we will see how these grow on me

dragon300zx wrote:

Are you nuts man :yikes. Cherry ripes so beat out a snickers. Now don't get me wrong snickers are still great. But it's the Cherry Ripe that will rule this world.

wxwax

Here's a man who subscribes to Cook's Illustrated magazine!

tlittleton

Well, I can add a couple of Australian snack that I was lured into buying from our friends down under...


Velvet Crumble:
I was kind of disappointed by this one. To me, it tasted similar to a Whoppers candy, but with a much finer texture. The chocolate was good, but the inside didn't seem to have much flavor. No where near as good as a Whoppers.

Now for the Tim Tams;
mmmmmmmm........chocolate
it's basically a chocolate sandwich cookie (much lighter than an Oreo) with chocolate cream filling and covered in chocolate. These are great! Not as good as chocolate covered Oreos, but they're up there. I got the original variety. The shop also has several other flavors.

A note for you guys ordering this stuff online. I asked them how they ship this stuff, and they said they'll ship it anyway you want. But they highly recommend overnight delivery. Nothing like waiting for a fix in the mail and it turns up melted from 4 days in hot van.

gus

God help us if shay ever has his prostrate checked & decides to 'share' the experience.

gus

tlittleton wrote:

Now for the Tim Tams;
mmmmmmmm........chocolate
it's basically a chocolate sandwich cookie (much lighter than an Oreo) with chocolate cream filling and covered in chocolate.

Mate...mate...mate...what you do with a timtam is bite a few mm ( 1/8") off each end...get a nice strong espresso coffee & use the timtam as a straw. You only get a few seconds to drink with it as it but its a triple whammy sugar/choc/caffeine hit.

Gus

gus

dragon300zx wrote:

Are you nuts man :yikes. Cherry ripes so beat out a snickers. Now don't get me wrong snickers are still great. But it's the Cherry Ripe that will rule this world.

hey drag's...the next level

Steve Cavigliano

Gus,

The bush bananas, wild nuts and wild watermelon all sound great. You can keep the Witchetty Grubs and the Carpet snakes though. I doubt if even Andy would touch those On second thought

Steve

tlittleton

Steve Cavigliano wrote:

Gus,

The bush bananas, wild nuts and wild watermelon all sound great. You can keep the Witchetty Grubs and the Carpet snakes though. I doubt if even Andy would touch those On second thought

Steve

With all those ribs on one snake, Andy might just love them:D

dragon300zx

So gus whats a yank gotta do to move over to that land of the ripe?

gus

dragon300zx wrote:

So gus whats a yank gotta do to move over to that land of the ripe?

Can you belch your ABC's ?

Immigration are always impressed with that to begin with.

dragon300zx

of course

gus

dragon300zx wrote:

of course

Next...have you got any good kiwi jokes ?

gubbs

Humungus wrote:

Next...have you got any good kiwi jokes ?

I've a feeling we're about to hear some

dragon300zx

A Kiwi walks into the local unemployment office, marches straight up to the counter and says, "Hi! I hate being on welfare, I'd really rather have a job."

The clerk behind the Centrelink desk says, "Your timing is excellent. We just got a job opening from a very wealthy old man who wants a chauffeur/bodyguard for his nymphomaniac daughter. You'll have to drive around in his Mercedes, but he'll supply all of your clothes.

Because of the long hours, meals will be provided. You'll be expected to escort her on her overseas holiday trips. You'll have a two-bedroom apartment above the garage.

The starting salary is $200,000 a year".

The Kiwi says, "You're bullsh!@#ing me!"

The Centrelink officer says, "Yeah, well, you started it".

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An Aussie bloke is having a quiet drink in a bar and leans over to the big guy next to him and says, 'Do you wanna hear a Kiwi joke?

The big guy replies, 'Well mate, before you tell that joke, you should know something. I'm 1.90 m tall, 125 kg and I played as a forward for the All Blacks."

"The guy next to me is 1.85 m, weighs 115 kg and he's an ex-All Black lock."

"Next to him is a bloke who's 2 m tall, weighs 120 kg and he's a current All Black second rower. Now do you still want to tell that Kiwi joke?"

The first bloke says, "Nah, not if I'm going to have to explain it three times."

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There's a Kiwi rugby fan, an Australian rugby fan and a beautiful woman sitting next to each other on a train.

The train enters a tunnel and everything gets dark. Suddenly there is a kissing sound and then a slap! The woman and the Kiwi are sitting there looking perplexed. The Kiwi is bent over holding his face which is red from an apparent slap.

The Kiwi is thinking, "That Australian must have tried to kiss this lady, she thought it was me and slapped me."

The lady was thinking, "That Kiwi must have moved to kiss me and kissed the Australian instead and got slapped."

The Australian was thinking to himself.... "If this train goes through another tunnel, I could make another kissing sound and slap that f***ing Kiwi in the head again."

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Hows that for a start.

BridgeCity

:lol4 :lol4 :lol :lol Thanks for the early morning humor! That should kickstart my day quite nicely.

Shay Stephens

Update (it grows on you)
I like the Cherry Ripe refrigerated much better (taste, texture, etc). And as it turns out, I downed three of them the same day I got them. And now, I am trying to figure out if I have space for a case of them, and if so, how many pounds extra they will make me gain hehehe.

Thanks for nothin' Gus

Skippy

Shay Shay Shay Shay

Shay Stephens wrote:

I like the Cherry Ripe refrigerated much better (taste, texture, etc). And as it turns out, I downed three of them the same day I got them. And now, I am trying to figure out if I have space for a case of them, and if so, how many pounds extra they will make me gain hehehe.

Thanks for nothin' Gus

Shay my friend.......don't try and work it out, you'll go crazy, just go with the flow, and give in to the cravings, and admit it.....your hooked bigtime aren't you.
Next time Gus sets foot on US soil they'll probably arrest him for being responsible for the mass outbreak of Cherry Ripe Crack Heads

Whatever you do, don't get hooked on TimTims cause they will take you down Shay, there's no going back once you go over the edge.

Skippy (Australia)

ian408

Humungus wrote:

Can you belch your ABC's ?

Immigration are always impressed with that to begin with.

I taught a four year old to belch whole sentences. Does that count?

Ian

dragon300zx

My cherry ripes are here and in the fridge. I had one tonight. Gonna restrict myself to one a day to make them last. I did get big peices of cherry that I can see and feel in my mouth. They are like crack god are they good.

Andy

Steve Cavigliano wrote:

Gus,

The bush bananas, wild nuts and wild watermelon all sound great. You can keep the Witchetty Grubs and the Carpet snakes though. I doubt if even Andy would touch those On second thought

Steve

mmmmm mmmm

caaarpet snakes mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

:eat

Andy

many uses
see the last pic in this thread