Ritter Sport – Milk Whole Almonds
It’s often been said that sometimes the hardest thing is the ones that seem simple. This goes doubly so for food and snacks. Sometimes the most basic seeming items like chocolate and almonds are so generic, that it’s hard to tell apart a great version and a good version. Obviously it’s easy to tell a good and bad ones, but after a certain point it’s hard to tell what makes one worth more than another, especially if one is significantly higher in price than the other.
That’s less of an issue here, since Ritter Sport is fairly decently priced, and a brand I consider to be solid value for money. While I don’t consider them the top in terms of quality, for the availability and price, it’s one of my top picks for value option. I have enough confidence in the brand that I’m fairly certain they can do a decent chocolate almond bar. This particular bar is part of their standard nut collection where you can find them in most any store that stocks Ritter Sport. So many chocolate options available to us, even here in the Frigid North. What a time to be alive.
Unless you have an allergy to almonds, milk, or any ingredients used in the making of milk chocolate, I’d be willing to bet good money that you’ve had the classic combo of chocolate almonds. It takes many forms, though more often than not as almonds covered in chocolate. It’s a winning combination, and unless the components are stale or rancid, it’s almost impossible to go wrong. While I like many prefer them in their spherical form, they can be just as good in a bar form.
As in classic Ritter Sport fashion, this is a 4 x 4 bar with 16 squares. Unlike other bars that tend to be thinner, Ritter Sport bars tend to be taller to accommodate all the fillings they throw in, in this case whole almonds. At least from the bottom, it looks to be quite a generous amounts of nuts in the bar. A man can never have enough nuts, amirite?
I’ve mentioned before that milk chocolate is not my favourite because it tends to be sweet, and that holds true even for Ritter Sport. While I prefer dark chocolate, milk chocolate tends to be less gritty and more melty, which lends itself better when being combined with nuts like almonds. It helps that the almonds aren’t sweet on their own, so it helps to even things out. Overall, a solid combination that Ritter Sport delivers on. It’s nothing super spectacular, but it’s done well, which is saying a lot for this classic combo.
As I’ve mentioned before, it’s hard to go wrong with almonds and chocolate, and the texture is beloved for a reason. The soft melty texture of the chocolate combining with the hard, crunch of the almonds brings back memories of the unmistakable combination that most of us have come to know and love. I’ve honestly never known anyone who didn’t like chocolate almonds. There have been almost no instances where I offer them chocolate almonds and they say no consistently. That’s how you know something is good.
