 Reese's Peanut Butter Cups – Inside Out Limited Edition
The unification of peanut butter and chocolate has been around a long time, but I can't remember any products in which the peanut butter was on the outside. It's a remarkably simple idea. Before these cups came out I was wondering how they were going to pull off a peanut butter shell. I was basing this on the mistaken assumption that the shell would be made of the same peanut butter you normally find on the inside of a peanut butter cup. What the shell really is, however, is essentially the same as a normal peanut butter cup, but colored and flavored like Reese's peanut butter. The inside is, of course, chocolate. The astonishing thing is that both the inside and outside have the same texture and consistency of the usual peanut butter cup. Halfway through my first Inside Out cup, I thought Reese's had a hit on its hands, but then came the dull, irritating aftertaste. There is something in that peanut butter, and it's not sugar. Well, not enough sugar anyhow. Alas, what seemed like an ideal treat turned out to be nothing more than a mulatto imposter, like Will Smith in Six Degrees of Separation. If Reese's can rework the formula and get the peanut butter to taste perfect, then this would probably rate just shy of Shiny Dr. Teeth Tooth status, as the peanut butter is what drives this candy. Come to think of it, the peanut butter is what drives the entire Reese family. And my own family, the indolent bunch of fat-asses. Review by George Washington Carver IV |
