I was originally intended to review snacks from China. Something came up, I didn’t notice there’s been awesome treasure food found lying around and has been hiding at the very corner of the shelf, that’s why I must review this Nestlé – After Eight Mint Chocolate Thins beforehand.
Two days ago, The Bee unpacked and rearranged food, you know the usual throw the old, add the new ones and unexpectedly found these unusual gem hiding inside the corner. It’s been lying there for more than 8 months, Shallow bought this for me end of last year from Christmas sales. Of course we were hesitated whether to keep or throw, we are not sure whether is it still safe to consume it though expiration date 2 months to go.
Honestly it didn’t catch my attention at the very first place, Shallow bought quite a few different candies, sweets, snacks for me and these were the ones that unconsciously left behind.
I’ve always been a fans of dark, thin, mint chocolate, unfortunately for this packaging didn’t left any impact or impression on me, which is why I almost forgot it existence. Little did I know it’s taste really good, the way it exploded in my mouth.
From the packaging itself, it doesn’t justify how delicious and awesome explosive chocolate it can be. Originally I guess are intended, as the name suggests, to be used as after-dinner mints. Little did I know that when AFTER EIGHT was launched in 1962, the indulgent wafer thin chocolate mints were responsible for creating the category of the ‘After Dinner Mint’ within the confectionery market. Since then, AFTER EIGHT has maintained its excellence in mint chocolate and is renowned for its exquisite taste and premium quality.
Review:
Packaging:
To be honest, at the first or few glance, it didn’t catch my attention to further observe and feels like eating it, I didn’t even look clearly what’s shown on its packaging, you need to squint and observe what on it, but I do say that it has its own teaser packaging by naming it as ‘AFTER EIGHT’. This is one of the rare one that doesn’t shout “look at me” among others, probably its own elegant concept and strong personality. I then only start observe the minute I slide one of the chocolate into in mouth while let the thin mint chocolate lingers on my tongue and melts in within, then only I start notice that it’s actually a real classic, elegant and posh kind of packaging, to be honest, I would say it is one of the rare bonus packaging, not many companies would want to take the risk to allow their products stood elegantly and quietly among others on the shelves, maybe it was meant to be that way. I also read that these used to be marketed as upmarket chocolate, if you look closely and observe the posh packaging.
Taste:
I love the taste it melts in my mouth. I love how the chocolate thin slice was set to be fit nicely into my mouth. It taste real good after meal, that’s why it’s called ‘AFTER EIGHT’, it’s taste good no matter at which hour. The concept is used to be portrayed during the olden days that how some higher class people used to treat chocolate as like a type of rare desert after meal. It’s also suitable for parties as it packed individually. I would say it’s a bit sweet for me, but I just love how the texture and chocolate had brought me. Normally Nestle’s products is sweeter than other chocolate brand.
It does shape like how it shown on the packaging and stayed fresh throughout the year even for tropical country, it doesn’t melt like how I thought it would be. I couldn’t stop myself from popping few of them. As you can see from the picture above, each packed individually, easier to consume even for your guest.
Overall Rate:
I love how the concept has to bring though there’s still need slight improvement on the color swatch. 0.5 because it really didn’t catch my attention or leave an impact on me.
Recommendation: Yes. I starting to fall for it and grown to love it.
Country Origin: United Kingdom
Readers – Have you tried this before? What do you say about it?
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