Cherry Ripe, not so cherry!
I love a Cherry Ripe. It is my favourite chocolate in the world, then comes Bounty,then Toblerone, then any other chocolate besides fruit & nut. What were they thinking when they made fruit & nut? Anyway, as I sit here eying off my Cherry Ripe (which I will promptly consume after lunch) I notice that there is actually more coconut in my cherry pipe than cherry. If fact as I read down the list on ingredients I find myself wondering what on earth is soy lecithin 492! Let’s do the math, 22% chocolate + 19% coconut + 14% glaze cherries = 55. AAAHHHH what on earth is the other 45%? According to Karen Daly in her “Fat’s & Figures” book a 55g Cherry Ripe bar contains13.4 g of fat…..so we can safely assume that the remaining 45% of my cherry ripe is fat, sugar, flavours, preservatives & colours. We can’t forget all those numbers that have no meaning to me…..got to love those numbers! Still, even if there is more coconut than cherry a Cherry Ripe will always be my first love. (after my family of course)
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