If you keep up to date with food hype and trends in the UK you might have seen these oceanic Cadbury bars doing the rounds. Amusingly I got and tried this back in January before they seemed to be mentioned.

I have mixed thoughts on these banana chew based centred chocolate bars. I can see why the flavour can be quite polarising and have the potential to remind people of a medicine they sipped children. For me though it is not quite like that at all and instead reminds me of the tasty of a foamy banana sweet (like those shrimp ones) that used to be available in penny sweet mixes.

The thing that gets to me though is the texture. I find it incredibly hard to chew it quite enough, even when I take an incredibly small bite, for it to not then get a little bit stuck in my throat. Even when that was not happening it certainly got stuck in my teeth!

Let us quickly discuss the name of this; Perky Nana. For me perky means lively and awake and Nana is a nickname for a maternal grandparent. So reading this for the first time certainly made me chuckle quite a lot. I can understand Nana being short for banana but why the perky? Perhaps an Australian or New Zealander can point me in the right direction for that.

I do not know if they still have them in stores, as I found this one in B&M, but if they do it is certainly a try one at your own peril. I would not particularly recommend it for more than the novelty of doing so but I fully believe that you might do so and find it very polarising on the liking or hating of it.