Ferrero Rocher Dark Bar

 

 
  Growing up in Bangladesh, every time a family member would travel abroad, they would always bring back "foreign chocolates" back as gifts. The usual suspects? After Eights, Toblerone or in the later years Ferrero Rocher.

 Recently, Ferrero Rocher released chocolate bar versions of their famous round chocolate treats. Milk and dark chocolate versions are available and of course being the dark chocolate and hazelnut fiend that I am, had to try it out. 

 Before I go any further into constructive critiques of the packaging, I should say that I finished the entire bar in one sitting...TWICE. Yes, bought it twice and finished it all in one go...both times and am on my third one now. 

 The combination of the hazelnut and dark chocolate is perfection. I usually prefer around 72% cacao dark chocolate. The Ferrero Rocher Dark bar is 55%. Perhaps it is the lower percentage of cacao (making it less intense) making it all too easy to finish an entire bar all at once or perhaps it's the somewhat hollow nature of the bar? It almost has a shell-like quality for the moussey dark chocolate hazelnut filling inside the chocolate bar.  

 

 

 

 

 Back to the topic of packaging. To be honest, there really isn't anything wrong with the packaging. This is more of a me thing. A V thing...This is definitely an OCD gripe because the chocolate itself is delicious. 

 As pictured above, the chocolate is packaged in a pretty gold packaging with the Ferrero logo printed on it. The red arrows point to the are where one is supposed to rip the foil package to open it. 

 Perhaps I feel a bit spoiled from Japanese and Korean snacks, but the opening felt a bit sloppy. It just ripped open and it was not a clean and seamless rip, by any means. It's more of a wobbly, don't know what's going on opening and it does skim over a portion of the chocolate the point that once you do get it open, hazelnut and chocolate pieces fall out everywhere. I'm on my third bar at this point and this has weirdly gotten under my skin every time. 

 Nevertheless. I feel like that's a bit of an obsessive compulsive gripe that has nothing to do with the freshness, quality and most importantly taste of the chocolate itself.

 I am so glad that we found this gem! Try your best not to eat an entire bar! It's very difficult not to! Cheers!

 

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