Ritter Sport Cornflakes (Ritter Sport)

Brand: Ritter Sport

Calories: 506 (bar)

Calories per gram: 5.1

Price: $3.50

Where I found it: Pepper's Grocery (in Victoria, Canada)

Where you can find it: Apparently, everywhere

Again, this isn't my photo.  This time, instead of me eating it all, it was unceremoniously melted during the trip back to California, and it resembles a pile of crumpled muffins.  And besides, German is cool!  (I'm a Germanophile as I guess you will soon realize.)

I honestly had funny imaginings about Ritter Sport Cornflakes.  Was it a clump of Kellogg's Cornflakes sandwiched between two blocks of milky chocolate?  If you broke off a piece, would shards of corn flake fly everywhere?  

Nope, I'm going to save you some time and say that it's a Crunch bar (similar to Theo's Bread & Chocolate), except with much better milk chocolate.  Of course, due to Ritter Sport's quality and price, the chocolate had better be tastier than the average Crunch bar, or else there's going to be some rioting led by a tiny girl in San Jose.

I was unimpressed.  The milk chocolate was good, of course, but dammit, it was a bit too sweet and in essence, I was eating a fancy-ass Crunch bar.

Ritter Sport Marzipan (Ritter Sport)

Brand: Ritter Sport

Calories: 480 (bar)

Calories per gram: 4.8

Price: $3.50

Where I found it: Pepper's Grocery (in Victoria, Canada)

Where you can find it: Amazon, perhaps your local fancy grocery store

Okay, this picture isn't mine--it belongs to this person.  I ate it all.  But I wanted to find a picture of the Canadian Ritter Sport Marzipan bar I bought because, uh, the additional French is cool.  Haha.

The only time I've had marzipan was outside a Teuscher, a Swiss confectionery shop, in the Stanford Shopping Center, and while I was eating away my guilt of it being tenfold more expensive than it should be, I was overall pleased with marzipan.  It had a soft, yet slightly chewy texture that I enjoyed, and it wasn't heavy on the tongue.  Combining it with dark chocolate makes marzipan all the more appealing, of course. 

I say that Ritter Sport bars are evil.  With the way the pieces are set in a 4 by 4 grid, I feel almost obliged to break off an entire row.  But that's irrelevant to the taste of this bar.

This bar is all about sweetness.  It wasn't sweet in a saccharine, gross sweet manner, but I felt it was too sweet for it being dark chocolate.  Still, the amount of sweetness didn't mask the familiar, deep taste of the dark chocolate and the buttery-smooth, slightly nutty marzipan.  

After a light toasted sandwich with ham and lettuce, just two squares of Ritter Sport Marzipan hits the spot and rounds my appetite.  It's not a chocolate I'd indulge in while pondering Kierkegaard, but it does the job.