... Now, for me, these sounded delicious, but when I mentioned them to other people (who probably don’t like dipping biscuits in yoghurt) they said, ‘Urgh, that’s weird! Who wants a yoghurty biscuit?’ which made me wonder whether McVities had actually done any market research at all.
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A review by pesky33 on McVities Go Ahead Yoghurt Breaks April 15th, 2004
Author's product rating:
Value for Money
Good
Product Quality
Good
Product package
Good
Taste
Nice
How loyal are you to this brand?
Not very
Advantages:
nice texture of yoghurt and biscuit
Disadvantages:
the yoghurt is slightly artificial
Recommend to potential buyers:
yes
Full review
Trying to avoid intense painful headaches, my tastes have taken a turn away from chocolate and towards biscuits in the past few weeks. I’m not much of a dunking into hot drinks sort of a girl, probably because I only have two hot drinks a day (coffee in the morning, and ovaltine at night) and at neither time do I feel a biscuit is in order. Instead, I like to have a biscuit in the afternoon, and as they can be fairly dry, I usually dip them in a Ski yoghurt. There’s something about the way it moistens the biscuit, and makes it really fruity. I recommend it to anyone.
Imagine how excited I was when I saw these little babies in the supermarket – they’re biscuits, which already have yoghurt on them. Now, for me, these sounded delicious, but when I mentioned them to other people (who probably don’t like dipping biscuits in yoghurt) they said, ‘Urgh, that’s weird! Who wants a yoghurty biscuit?’ which made me wonder whether McVities had actually done any market research at all.
PACKAGING
These snacks come foil wrapped in packets of 2 biscuits, which is handy for lunchboxes, or for people who find it hard to stop eating biscuits once they’re open. The foil wrapping matches the colour of the box, either blue for plain, or red for forest fruits. Both boxes show the actual biscuit on the front, which is good, because otherwise I wouldn’t have known what they meant by a ‘yoghurt break’. As it is they are crispy biscuits with sultanas sandwiched inside, a bit like garibaldis, but with a yoghurt topping. They are available in plain or forest fruit flavoured, and for some reason, the fruit flavoured ones are lower in calories despite being a lot tastier!
LOOK AND SMELL
Once inside the beautiful foil wrappers, these look exactly the same as the picture on the box. They are very thin rectangles measuring about 1 inch by three inches (3cm by 8cm). They look exactly the same as some other Go Ahead biscuits I’ve had, which they don't sell any more – they came in packs of three, and had a sugary topping.
The yoghurt on the top is fairly thin, meaning it’s possible to still make out the little bumps on the top of the biscuit itself. The underside shows a good distribution of dried fruit. Both flavours look identical, except for the slight pink tinge to the yoghurt on the forest fruits flavour. I was slightly disappointed that there were no lumps of red fruits in the forest fruits flavour – it seems the flavour refers only to the yoghurt and not to the biscuit itself.
There is no immediate smell once the packaging is opened, but once you smell the biscuit, there’s no denying the smell of yoghurt. It looks and smells like the sort of yoghurt you get on yoghurt coated nuts and raisins – it has that slight sourness to it. The forest fruit flavour smells a lot nicer; the scent of berries masks the sourness of the yoghurt.
TASTE AND TEXTURE
Unlike the garibaldi biscuit it resembles, the biscuit is very crispy to bite into, and even though the dried fruit wedged inside it is chewy, there is a crunch with each bite. The yoghurt topping is incredibly thin, so you can’t even feel it when you bite into it.
***Plain***
Not only does it look like it, it also tastes exactly like the yoghurt on covered nuts and raisins. It’s a strangely pleasant mixture of sweet and sour, an almost cheesy taste. When mixed with the raisin and biscuit, it’s hard to taste it at all - during eating, the taste is predominately of biscuity raisins. The aftertaste is definitely yoghurt, and tends to stick to the roof of your mouth.
***Forest Fruits***
Although these look identical, they are somehow crispier that the plain ones. The forest fruit in the yoghurt is apparent in every mouthful, and mingles with the biscuit and raisins to create a much more fruity experience. The aftertaste is still the same lingering yoghurt, but you can still taste the berries in the claggy bits stuck to the roof of your mouth every time you breathe in.
IS IT BETTER THAN BISCUIT DIPPED IN YOGHURT?
The biscuits are still fairly dry, even with the coating, and because the coating isn’t very thick, and doesn’t taste like ‘normal’ yoghurt, it’s a poor substitute. However, they’re something I’d take to work and enjoy at break time, particularly as two of them only contain 136 calories for the forest fruits flavour, the nicer of the two.
I tried these dipped in a hot drink just to let you dunkers know how they are. As you can probably predict, the yoghurt melts slightly into your drink, which is a bit annoying, but otherwise they’re the sturdiest biscuits I’ve ever dunked. I kept mine in there for a minute (I counted) and it didn’t fall off, and still crunched when I bit into it,
I did actually try these biscuits dipped in yoghurt, which seemed to defeat the object of them. According to Ian, I was also breaking a food related law (Cole’s Law as we call it in this house, named after Ian told me I couldn’t have both coleslaw and mayonnaise in the same sandwich).
Not suitable for vegetarians There doesn't seem to be any risk for those allergic to nuts, but if you are at all worried, there is a freephone helpline below
THANK YOU FOR TAKING THE TIME TO READ MY REVIEW. IT’D BE GREAT IF YOU COULD RATE IT AND PERHAPS COMMENT ON IT FOR ME TOO!!
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