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Another review, another Whittaker’s venture. I told you that everybody wants in on this whittakersnz chocolate train and now hopping onboard is the famous Griffin’s (and our old mate the Cookie Bear’s) Hundreds and Thousands biscuit.
Hundred and Thousands are an example of nonpareils, little tiny balls made with sugar and starch. The collective of human knowledge has misplaced the actual origins of these little sh1ts, but it is speculated that it may have evolved way back in the day when sugar was used in medicine to treat a variety of maladies. You may have heard of the sugar pill, which is still being looked at today for it’s amazing ability to help alleviate symptoms of almost every known disease, by simply doing nothing. I usually feel better after eating sugar, except I usually take heroic doses that lead to feeling like sh1t.
The Hundreds and Thousands of which we speak this day though is a plain ole sweet biscuit jazzed up with these wildly multicoloured, tiny, balls of sugar. Not sure if any serious medicinal claims have been made of these, but I am guessing not.
Peeling back the metallic pink wrapping, I could not help a pang of revulsion at the colour of this sh1t. It was as though the fur had been plucked from Cookie Bear and packaged as a flesh offering to the masses. I blinked hard and shuddered to banish this imagery from my mind. Okay, it is just pink, but you gotta admit, that it does seem flesh coloured. You can’t unsee it now can you? Sorry.
Thankfully the eating experience was far from repulsive. The chocolate was sweet and smooth, contrasted with crumbly pieces of biscuit and tiny crunchy balls of sugar / starch. It is extremely sweet, but eating this sh1t very much did bring to mind the pleasure of eating a hundreds and thousands biscuit. By my reckoning, this is a win, I can’t imagine anything more that could be done to make this work any better.
Dum-de-doo 8.5/10
