Snickers Fudge Bar

This was supposed to be way more momentous than it was. I had huge hopes for it, but it's been one of those situations where now that I've had it I can't exactly remember what I was originally expecting. Here's how I looked at it. (1) Snickers is one of my favorite candy bars. Maybe the top. (2) I like fudge. (3) Mars was having an active summer with limited edition candy. It was active, but it was hit-and-miss. I thought the Coconut M&Ms were okay. The first bag I had was fantastic, but by the time I got halfway through the second bag I was less intrigued. The Snickers Nougabot bar was a waste. It was just a regular Snickers, but the nougat was yellow. And it was a little bit smaller. However, in my opinion, the Strawberried Peanut Butter M&Ms were on another level. Maybe one of my favorite candies ever, and if it stays limited edition, that would be a tragedy. (I saw at Wal-Mart that they had bags of them that were not Transformers related, which gives me hope they won't be as ephemeral as a movie tie-in, but they still say "Limited Edition" on them) Unfortunately I think it will go the way of Butterfinger BBs and Batman cereal into trash-that-left-us-too-soon manna. It took me about 3 small bags and 2 medium bags of those before I had to stop eating them due to pure exhaustion. But, it was like I told Adam before, they pretty much made me want to go back to Goodwill, buy back all my old clothes, and pound bags of those until I filled them. With flesh. Seriously. They're good. I want to put them in a bowl and pour milk on them for breakfast. I want to put them on bread and slather them with more peanut butter for lunch. I want to bake them with potatoes and cheese in a dinner casserole. (I started out joking there, but except for that casserole, those sound pretty f-ing delicious. Maybe add to the breakfast PANCAKES with strawberried peanut butter M&Ms baked into them. And then instead of dinner just have dessert of cookies with those baked in on top of ice cream with those mixed in. I could open a Strawberried restaurant.) Anyway...back to Snickers Fudge.

I found out about the Snickers Fudge bar something like two months ago when I was looking up bloggers' reactions to the Strawberried M&Ms and read about people having them at Candy Expo. It sounded like a monster. Fudge instead of caramel and peanut butter nougat. I was on the hunt. I swear I stopped at every grocery store, gas station, drug store, convenience store, and super center in the 20 mile range between North Stafford and Spotsylvania in July and August, and some in Williamsport, PA and Lewiston, NY, and that was just scouting. I was making note of which places stocked limited edition stuff, and that actually ended up being only about 5 places. Then I checked those places at least once every week. Didn't know if I was every going to find the bastard. It was supposed to come out in August, but I never saw it. I found it they were selling display boxes of 30 or 40 bars at Sam's Club, so I actually wrote Sam's Club asking for a trial membership just in case it came to that. But it didn't, I finally found them at a 7-11 on 17. So I bought a couple of them, and a regular Snickers for comparison.

A couple of things I found out. (1) Snickers are not good out of the fridge. I usually like to chill my candy. It works wonders with peanut butter cups, M&Ms, 3 Musketeers, regular chocolate bars, and Peppermint Patties for starters. But the Snickers, regular or otherwise, just doesn't like it. The peanut are and whatevers around it becomes so stiff that it's almost impossible to chew. And if you press on with it, it's not enjoyable. So, better at room temperature. (2) I was really excited about "peanut butter nougat" but when I bit into it, it tasted the same to me. So then I cut it into two halves, the fudge upper and the nougat bottom, and even isolated it tasted the same. Then I looked it up, and apparently the Snickers nougat is already considered peanut butter nougat, even though I think they just call it nougat on the wrapper. So that was nothing new, nothing different. Some people have said they can taste the peanut butter difference. I think they're full of it. (3) The top ended up just tasting like more chocolate most of the time. There were certain bites where I could distinguish the fudge as being thicker and a little creamier than the milk chocolate on top of it, but overall it was just like more chocolate. Which isn't horrible, but it wasn't life-changing. (4) The top layer of chocolate was thicker, but it was also kind of airy with the peanuts in there. Lighter than it should have been. If it was more like creamy chocolate packed into a brick, I think I would have liked it more. I'm not the biggest caramel fan in the world, but it's way more integral to the Snickers than I thought. You need something a little drippy in there.

So, again, I'm having a hard time remembering what specifically I was expecting originally from this thing, but whatever it was, I didn't get it. I had built it up pretty high though and put a lot of work into finding it, so maybe there was no chance. So that's unfortunate. More unfortunate is that my pre-occupation with limited edition foods, or food that seems like it will have a short lifetime, is becoming too much of an obsession. I get the feeling I have to try all these things and I have to try them NOW because soon they'll be gone. Basically, to the guys that sell this stuff, I'm pretty much their wet dream right now. They could pretty much sell me anything as long as it's related to something tasty and they tell me it will be gone before I know it. I'm a buffoon.