Fused - Michael McGoldrick

Advantages: Tastes Delicious
Disadvantages: Can Be Quite hard To Find

...I seem to be gradually working my way through all of the different Chocolate Bars in my local supermarket and today it is the turn of the Cadbury's Fuse Bar. A few months ago there was a rumour circulating in certain quarters that the days of the Fuse Bar were numbered but the friendly chap in my local shop assures me that his cash n carry has them piled up to the ceiling. It may come as a surprise to those of you that know that I am a bit of a Chocoholic but I don't believe that I have bought one of these before, sure I have often seen them on the shelves but there always seem to be something else that took my fancy that little bit more. THE BACKGROUND It is almost ten years ago in the Spring of 1996 that Cadbury's first launched their Fuse Bar which they described as "A fusion of Milk Chocolate, Raisins, Peanuts, Crispy... Read review

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Advantages: Tastes great
Disadvantages: You may get a little W I D E R

...Cadburys Fuse has the lot in it. and will only cost you around the usual 40p for the chocolate bar but unfortunately it has been discontinued! Well looking at the packet it looks well designed with a canon about to blow on it and Fuse in big bright lettering. I weighed it in my hand and was amazed how could it have everything and only weigh 49 grams. Tearing open the wrapper was a little tricky and I had to use my teeth in the most undignified manner. Well it doesn't look like anything particularly special just being a rectangular block really not very light like the Flake and not very heavy either like a Mars or a Snickers. I smelt it, caught a whiff of dairy milk, sweet and chocolatey with a hint of cream to drive you nuts, took another sniff, but I couldn't smell anything other than Dairy Milk, feeling the urge to bite into... Read review

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Advantages: Filling and good bits in Cadbury's choccy
Disadvantages: Pathetic wrapper

...to ever try these. As it happened the only reason I did eventually try them was due to finding them on sale so I figured if they were as c**p as the adverts then I wouldn?t have wasted so much money. Fortunately I got lucky as I thought they were quite nice and over the last few years they have kind of grown on me to the point where they would just about make it into the top 10 of my choccy buying shopping list. In this case Cadbury?s seem to have developed poor taste not only in advertising concepts but also in packaging as there isn?t the slightest hint of the normal high quality foil type stuff they use with all their other bars. Rather all we get with the Fuse bar is a pathetic excuse of a plastic wrapper and no metallic printing at all. The typical purple that is synomynous with almost all Cadbury?s chocolate bars is highly... Read review

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