wild mice and white strawberry chocolate

(no camera today, so photos to follow - promise)

so, after the success of our friday pub lunch, paul and i decided that it was nigh time for a trip to lidl. we emerged with a bar of amanie 'extra fine' white strawberry chocolate and a bag of wild mouse sweets.

on reaching the office paul decided to begin with some wild mice (89p). these a a foam-jelly composite sweet. the body is a marbled foam mouse with a long jelly tail. they look a bbit like brains with tails, but on closer inspection are definitely mouse-shaped. i thought the foam tasted slightly better than the jelly part, but both paul and i agree that the contrast between the two was great. they look somewhat disturbing, but taste good. the packet also informs me that wild mouse are fat free but, given that glucose is listed as the first ingredient, we remain unconvinced to their health-giving properties. and no spinach...

paul is a big white chocolate fan and the white strawberry chocolate (79p) claims to be 'finest chocolate', so we had high expectations. on opening the packet we were presented with the bottom of the chocolate bar (i managed to open it upside down), the appearance of which is vaguely reminiscent of a bad case of acne on peely-wally skin. all the strawberry bits had sunk to the bottom so turning it over made for a more appealing aesthetic. the chocolate was nice enough - not strawberryish enough for our liking and a bit sickly. we had one row of chocolate each and that was more than enough. strawberry chocolate is ok, but i'm not sure i'd go so far as to call it 'extra fine'.