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really good

Really Good Taste just like Cadbury's mini eggs Covered in snow dust for a festive feel

Not So Good The cynic might just say it's a just a repackaging of an existing product

On the second day of Christmas, this really-good reviewer received: 2 Bags of Snow bites, manufactured by Cadburys

As I've grown older, various featurettes of Christmas have changed their form, size / quantity, or disappeared altogether. Stockings were last seen in my household about five years ago. Christmas trees have shrunk in size and, in some years, been abandoned altogether. In my tender years one would know exactly what assortment of meats and vegetables would be laid down on the Christmas dinner table, where as today's Christmas banquet is a much more dynamic affair; new ideas get tried, old favourites in turn take sabbaticals.

None of this is a complaint. Change is positive. Though we sometimes tried to resist, change is often made all the easier to accept by the warmth that inside ourselves we know that some things will never change. And during the winter months, as we contemplate what may be different this year, we can rest assured in the knowledge that Christmas brings with certainty one thing at least, and that thing is Chocolate! As we know this to be true, so do the companies producing it. And this year Cadburys way of attempting to cash in on this is with their new festive product: Snow Bites.

I have to admit to not having spent too much time in the shops recently, and Snow Bites did not come to my attention until Christmas day, when I opened a gift of two bags which had lovingly been wrapped by my mother. On the evening of boxing day I pulled open one of the bags and was greeted with a display of around thirty little fluffy snowball shaped chocolates. Each snowball is dusted in some kind of icing sugar type substance. If one hadn't seen the packaging they may be led to believe that what was being presented to them were actually miniature toffee sherbets. Unlike toffee sherbets, however, the dusting is very thin and once in your mouth it dissolves quickly. You are then left with a hard crispy shell, much like (very much like) that of a mini egg. Bite into the shell and, again as per a mini egg, you reach the chocolate centre.