Tuesday, March 26, 2013

Gandour Safari


I've been dreading this post but I must take my newfound role as a chocolate blogger seriously, no? I've hated Safari for as long as I can remember, but a chocolate as 'popular' as this one had to be reviewed. So I brought home the smallest bar I could find to check if it was still as bad as I remembered it.


Safari is a milk chocolate made by Gandour, a Saudi Arabia-based company that's more than a century old! Gandour makes a range of chocolates (which, I'm pretty sure, are as shitty as Safari), and Safari is one of their most recognised products. It's either me or the Saudi nations just DO NOT KNOW HOW TO MAKE CHOCOLATE! Any and every chocolate product that I've tasted from these countries have scored exactly the same points - ZERO.


Safari is no exception. With a wafer and cereal core and caramel layering, the milk chocolate is covered with rice crispies on the top (which look like warts, urgh!). Sweet as hell, ugly to look at and with an all-over-the-place texture, Safari makes for a terrible gustatory experience. Their only saving grace is the packaging. I couldn't finish even this tiny 20g bar that cost me INR 5, and I never waste chocolate. So yeah, Safari retains its position as the yuckiest of chocolates, at least in my book.

RATING: 1/5


3 comments:

  1. i am sure i must have tried this , coz it is available at all railway stations , but somehow i don't remember trying it . maybe it was that bad . i remember reading somewhere that your brain blocks away the painful memories .... maybe its true .

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  2. Surprised to read this review because I absolutely love Safari.

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  3. What can I say? To each his own, I guess. But if you try some of the higher rated chocolates mentioned in this blog, your opinion might change.

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