Nestle still remain behind Cadbury's when it comes to the confectionary industry, and it is probably the way it is always going to be, but that doesn't mean it has to stop them making products that are more intriguing than some of Cadbury's. I mean, look at Nestle Double Cream, that was an ... Read review
Advantages: Can't really say a bad word about it Disadvantages: All depends on what you want really
Nestle still remain behind Cadbury's when it comes to the confectionary industry, and it is probably the way it is always going to be, but that doesn't mean it has to stop them making products that are more intriguing than some of Cadbury's. I mean, look at Nestle Double Cream, that was an excellent idea for competition for Cadbury's Dairy Milk in my opinion, however I think you're lucky to find it in the shops nowadays. One of Nestle's most successful ... ...some people may attach to Nestle Area is all, "All bubble. No squeak," the Aero UK campaign for five years before converting in 2005. The colours of Aero are a light brown and white, where you find the edge of the packaging is brown and then the centre is this airy white colour. The area text is written in a smooth joined-up manner, and the text is coloured in by the brown bubbles of the product.
Nestle still remain behind Cadbury's when it comes to the confectionary industry, and it is probably the way it is always going to be, but that doesn't mean it has to stop them making products that are more intriguing than some of Cadbury's. I mean, look at Nestle Double Cream, that was an excellent idea for competition for Cadbury's Dairy Milk in my opinion, however I think you're lucky to find it in the shops nowadays. One of Nestle's most successful products is Aero, first introduced to the market back in 1935.
As far as gimmicks go, Aero is probably one of the biggest novelty chocolate bars on the market for its well documented 'bubbly chocolate'. The slogan that the chocolate currently goes by is, 'Feel the bubbles belt', although this had been the slogan in Canada for many years prior to being introduced into the UK. Other slogans that some people may attach to Nestle Area is all, "All bubble. No squeak," the Aero UK campaign for five years before converting in 2005. The colours of Aero are a light brown and white, where you find the edge of the packaging is brown and then the centre is this airy white colour. The area text is written in a smooth joined-up manner, and the text is coloured in by the brown bubbles of the product.
Energy 686kJ/164kcal Protein 2.0g Carbohydrate 17.7g of which sugars 17.5g Fat 9.5g of which saturates 6.1g Fibre 0.2g Sodium trace Salt equivalent 0.1g
For the purposes of my review I have a 'big value 5 bar' pack in my home, and each bar is quite small but a good enough size. I feel that the product is mainly aimed at the female audiance, and looking at the packaging it seems to be made in a way so that you would have a romantic attatchment to the product. Also, if you've seen the rest commercials aired on television, you find that most of them feature hunky males with their shirts off. On the bar it informs you it includes 164 calories, which is 8% of an adults guideline daily allowance (GDA). There is also the best before date, that reads 01/03/2008, so quite a while, and a reminder of the ingrediants. Rather sneakily as well, when you fold down the back of the packaging you find a lot of other hidden information - including the nutritional values again, and the Nestle logo (established in 1966).
Opening the bar you may see, if you haven't ate Aero for a while, that they have transformed it into a true bar sharing chocolate, as opposed to the big strip of chocolate it used to be (think KitKat Chunky, but now more along the lines of Dairy Milk). Rather than having rectangles you can break off, they're like rounded bubbly looking squares and really appealing with 'Aero' written on each one. They break off fairly easy. The smell of the chocolate is incredibly appealing, and has that true Aero bubble smell that people who have previously enjoyed the chocolate shall remember.
Breaking the first bubble square off you can see the inside honey-comb-but-chocolate texture. One of the main advertising points of the chocolate is feeling it melt in your mouth, so with the first square I think I shall do this. It's very much a test of will, as it can be very easy to just want to bite into it. The squares are probably too heigh in some peoples cases to be that fun to feel it melt in your mouth, although personally I don't think it's as fun to suck on Aero chocolate as it is Dairy Milk anyway, so lets see how it lives up to the bite taste. The after taste from the first square is pretty much tasting how it smelt, I like it.
Biting through the product you can ever so slightly taste yourself breaking through the bubbles, and the chocolate taste is just regular chocolate really. I'm sure it's not Nestle's finest, and it's not amazingly creamy or anything, it's just chocolate. Breaking each square off indivisually I'm going to cause a big mess, so lets try and eat this the old fashioned away - biting into the ba. My impressions are that whilst the bar isn't amazing, it's definitly something you would want to pick up in the fridge to eat -- most people will probably eat it without really thinking about how it ranks up there with other chocolate bars, and it's funny that now I've actually put that into consideration I do not rank Aero as highly as I used to. It's a nice chocolate bar, but nothing more, and the bubbles are an excellent gimmick. Something I would recommend, and I can see why this is one of Nestle's top products.
Advantages: Bubbles are a novelty Disadvantages: Not very chocolaty, Nestle, Additives
Usually I don't buy Nestle products on moral grounds, and as a general rule, any drink that puts "drink" at the end of what it is, is to be avoided. For example, "orange juice drink" is unlikely to ever have seen an orange.
Still, wandering through my local Iceland, this was the only hot chocolate they had and it was cheap.
==== Taste ===== I usually like my hot chocolate to be really chocolatey so this was a bit of a disappointment. It tastes ... ...why you'd want to buy Nestle stuff. The sachet holds 24g, which I think it probably so they can boast it's "only" 99 calories.
You get quite a few sachets in the box, I think it was 6, and it cost £2 from iceland. I've looked on Tesco price check and they don't seem to have it so it seems pretty rare. For the best, really! I really wouldn't reccomend this. It has no good points. I'm slowly getting through the box, but only because I'm too lazy to ...
sakura42 19.07.2006
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Advantages: Fairly cheap, nice looking box, bubbly Disadvantages: Not a great chocolate taste, nasty ingredients, difficult to find in shops
...between the Cadbury and the Nestle version, I quickly grabbed the box and put it in my trolley before she got the chance to make her mind up!
I took it home and put it away in my kitchen cupboard. I'd forgotten I'd bought the stuff until about a week afterwards, whilst I was rummaging for something to put into my packed lunch the following day, I saw it and remembered I'd bought it. I asked both my daughter and my husband if they'd like to try some; ... ...I were you - it was a real disappointment.
If you'd like more information about this product, you can contact Nestle on www.nestle.co.uk or phone them for free on 0800 585759. I've already contacted their website and left them with my views on this product! ...
mightymuffin 14.04.2007
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I had a bar of this last night (along with the wine gums, family sized bag of peanut M&M's and minstrels, strawberry pencils, chewy elephants, a pack of werthers toffees and a bag of rainbow stripes but I won't mention that!). After Dairy Milk this is my favourite chocolate. It comes in two varieties; mint and plain. The mint is by far the tastiest and I go for that one every time. The bar is divided into rectangular chunks and the outer chocolate ... ...wrapper you get an overwhelming smell of mint. It's really strong and my mouth starts watering straight away. When I break off a chunk it doesn't break off as clean cut as a bar of Dairy Milk and leaves some crumbs here and there. Some of the chocolate tends to flake off too which reveals the secret under layer of bubbly, green chocolate. The chocolate is so tasty and minty and the small amount of chocolate mixed with the green bubbly stuff is just ...
bruffyboy 27.02.2009
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Advantages: Delicious milk chocolate, wide availability. Disadvantages: Calories and fat.
Nestle is a confectionary company, which comes from Switzerland. Nestle is known widely around the globe, due to its world-famous chocolate bars etc. Nestle has a huge range of products, including (Nescafe) coffee, beverages, ice creams, frozen food, confectionary, and many more. Personally, Nestle has never been a favourite brand of mine when it comes to chocolate bars and bags of chocolate. I have mainly gone for Cadburys or Mars, Galaxy. However ... ...Nestle will do, and this was the case last Thursday.
It was mid afternoon, and time for a little snack. I poured myself a glass of fresh pineapple juice, and then my quest to find something nice to eat to accompany my juice. I skimmed the fridge, bypassing the yogurts and fresh fruit on offer. I really didnt know what I felt like, but I had a craving I couldnt quite put my finger on. I opened the cupboard and retrieved the biscuit/sweet tin not ...
SweetTooth93 30.05.2008
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Advantages: taste, bubbly, low-calorie Disadvantages: list of ingrediants
I'm not normally a fan of instant hot chocolate drinks but there is something different about the Aero hot chocolate. Whilst doing the weekly shop recently my other half spotted this hot drink on special offer - £1.50 (good old Asda!). There were two versions available, a normal chocolate one and a minty version. Both claimed that 'the way the bubbles melt on your tongue creates a deliciously smooth hot chocolate sensation - go on indulge yourself.' ... ...to try the normal chocolate one and put a tub in the trolly. Once we got home I put it away and to be honest forgot about it! A few days later my boyfriend was making me a tea and remembered the hot chocolate and decided to try one. Once he came to sit down I became much more interested in his drink than my tea and I love tea! What attracted me firstly was the amount of bubbles floating on the top, then I noticed the lovely chocolatey smell wafting ...
Kazbot-x 05.04.2008
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