Vintage ORP Thread / Duncans Review

[Amelieee1]

Hi everybody, I decided to open up a Duncans milk chocolate bar from a 1999 ORP I had, I decided to write a small review:
For all the hype you expect it to be good, and it was in some areas quite good, for example the chocolate had held together perfectly and had no bloom at all.

First things first, smell test - Upon opening the package I was immediately greeted with a strong and really creamy chocolate smell, which dissipated after about a minute, and left me with the smell of strong milk cooking chocolate.
Now for the taste test!

Taking a bite, the chocolate is very solid, but once you start to chew it gets very crumbly very quick, its very dry and there is a few small chunks that you get which are fractions of a milimetre which are just solid chunks of what im going to assume is fat. The more you chew it, the creamier it gets - which is good as at first it tastes like gone off cooking chocolate, but as soon as you swallow it, the creaminess leaves you for its ex and moves to hawaii.

For about two minutes you get an aftertaste of very strong chocolate - almost as if it is dark chocolate, almost unpleasant.

Overall, I don't know if this bar has gone bad - from the look it doesn't look like it. But my opinion is from this taste test, and I think that this chocolate is a bit overhyped, it isnt the best chocolate I have ever eaten but it is decent, I think this chocolate has seen better days and because of it not tasting the best, I'm not going to waste it. Im going to try make a small hot chocolate with about half of the bar, and probably keep the rest in a plastic bag for display, either way I am grateful I at least got to try this out.

Thanks for reading everyone

(image quality changed depending on whether the sun was shining or not, sorry)

[cavguy]

The Duncans one wasn't the best even when new. The best one was the one that came later, the Yorkie bar (ca. early-mid 2000's)!

[norge]

the taste you describe is just how they taste

the rum and raisins was far better and the ones with the crisp.

cheers ken

[Shirebrew]

The Duncans one wasn't the best even when new. The best one was the one that came later, the Yorkie bar (ca. early-mid 2000's)!

You can’t beat a Yorkie bar!

[Amelieee1]

1997 British ORP menu G laid out - stock image style
Thinking about doing the same for menu C, thoughts?

[Amelieee1]

1999 ORP 300ml Beef and Tomato soup
overall it just tasted of beef and herbs, no tomato flavour at all, kind of grainy even in more then 300ml of water and some mixing.
I suspected that a cat may have made a pinhole in this pack, that seems more likely now. The beef tasted stong and off, because well it was off.

Aftertaste of beef, very strong and nearly unpleasant.

[housil]

Aftertaste of beef, very strong and nearly unpleasant.

Once I ate a 2001 onion soup

It was just yucky ...

[MrFahrenheit]

The Duncans one wasn't the best even when new. The best one was the one that came later, the Yorkie bar (ca. early-mid 2000's)!

Its no for civvies!

[Amelieee1]

The Duncans one wasn't the best even when new. The best one was the one that came later, the Yorkie bar (ca. early-mid 2000's)!

Its no for civvies!

No they arent!