Name: Kinder Happy Hippo
Origin: Netherlands
Found at: Cost Plus, Costa Mesa
Cost: $3.99
Ingredients:
Sugar, Vegetable Oil and Fat, Wheat Flour, Whole Milk Powder (.7.5%), Skimmed Milk Powder (5%), Fat-Reduced Cocoa (4.5%), Hazelnuts, Whey Powder, Emulsifier (Soy Lecithin), Cocoa Mass, Wheat Starch, Milk Proteins, Cocoa Butter, Raising Agents (Sodium Hydrogen Carbonate, Ammonium Carbonate), Cocoa butter, Salt, Vanillin, Total Milk Solids: 12.5%
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Why I Bought It:
Tasting Notes:
Imagine an ice cream cake cone that's been filled with Nutella and coated in chocolate cookie crumbs. That's what these hippos remind me of most. What I didn't expect was how much of that filling there is. There seems to be almost enough to spread on toast. And the snack is also one of the messiest I've ever eaten. I consumed mine over the sink. Buy them for your kids at the peril of your upholstery, your carpet, their clothes, or anything else nice you'd rather keep chocolate off of.
Before becoming an award-winning restaurant critic for OC Weekly in 2007, Edwin Goei went by the alias “elmomonster” on his blog Monster Munching, in which he once wrote a whole review in haiku.