I want to write a review about a lunch-box, but i'm stuck what catagory to put it under. Help please...
I want to write a review about a lunch-box, but i'm stuck what catagory to put it under. Help please! ?
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I've been looking round my room trying to give my ideas on what I can write my next review on and I finally found something! I have a massive pot of Twiglets sitting in my room left over from xmas, so here goes!
***WHAT ARE TWIGLETS?*** Twiglets are crunchy wholegrain sticks covered in yeast extract (Marmite/Bovril taste). The sticks themselves are a very light brown colour and the yeast extract gives them darker brown patches and spots! I'm actually eating out of a 200g tub, so the sticks are shorter probably about 1 inch, whereas the twig lets you get in the snack packets are about 2 times longer than these!
Twiglets are made by Jacobs, who are well known for making a large range of Cream Crackers.
***ABOUT JACOBS*** Jacobs was founded by 2 brothers in 1981 & their first cream cracker was produced in 1885 in a Dublin factory. Jacobs also do a large range of savoury biscuits and a snack range such as Iced Gems, Club, Tuc, Ritz, Fig Rolls and lots more. In 2004 Jacobs was acquired by UB (United Biscuits) .
(There isn't much more to say about Jacobs as their main focus is Cream Crackers and seeing this a review about Twiglets, I'm not going to talk loads about cream crackers)
***TASTE TEST*** When you open the tub you are greeted by a wheat smell. I can't really smell a marmite/yeast smell very much. The sticks feel quite dry and they are very knobbly and they all seem to look different. Now I have got a stick out of the tub and when I smell it I can now smell a marmite type smell. As you bite into the stick it is very crunchy and you can taste a light wheat taste with the lovely yummy taste of the yeast extract (its just easier if I say marmite because that's what I think it tastes like).
The taste of marmite isn't overpowering, it's just enough to give a nice flavour to the crunch stick. I find these very addictive and very more-ish and as soon as I have 1 you have to take them away from me otherwise I'll keep on eating them!
***CALORIES AND NUTRITIONAL VALUES*** The following applies to 1 serving (1 bag/30g) I am talking about the small bags here not the huge ones!! * Calories - 117 * Protein - 3.6 * Carbohyrdate - 18.4 * Fat - 3.2 * Fibre - 3.5
Contains: Wheat, Gluten, Celery. These are produced on a lin handling milk, egg and in a factory handling sesame seeds.
These contain 41% of your wholegrain GDA per 25g serving.
***HOW DO I EAT MINE?*** Yes I have many ways of eating different things (if you read my Malteser review you will know what I mean!)
* JUST CRUNCHING - I just pop them in my mouth one at a time and just crunch them until they are all gone!
* SUCKING - My favourtie way is popping one of these sticks into my mouth and suck/lick all the marmite off of them & then crunch the rest of the stick . . Yummy!
***RECOMMENDED?*** I think these are truly yummy and truly addictive, I'm not too sure you will like them if you're a marmite hater because I think they do taste like marmite. I have heard other people say they don't think they do taste like marmite but you never know until you give them a go!
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Advantages: Taste deliciously Marmite-y, *apparently* lower in fat than crisps - but you get a bigger bag so that sort of cancels out, doesn't it? Disadvantages: The greasy feel on your fingers, waaaaaay salty
Fruity_Tart 18.01.2004 (18.01.2004)
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