Product Review: Soreen Limited Edition

Soreen is 75 years old.

Yes, that little slice of sticky, fruity, malt goodness your mum handed you when you got in from school, or that you got on a Sunday afternoon with bread and butter round at your nan’s is now three quarters of a century old. And to celebrate, they’ve made it a little bit naughtier. They’ve added chocolate.

Soreen’s one of my carb loading treats ahead of an intensive run – for me it’s normally the banana loaf (when I can get it). Or the apple and sultana. Or the toastie loaf covered in melting butter…

 

 

So when a big paper bag appeared with some of their limited edition chocolate loaves inside, along with the massively generous pile of goodies pictured above, I got a little giddy and immediately put the kettle on and reached in the fridge for the stash of real butter I keep hidden for emergencies.

To be honest, I was a little unsure. I have rules with chocolate, and putting it in something like this is usually a big no-no in my book.

But rules are meant to be broken, right?

 

 

Good. Because this is gorgeous. It’s still the sticky, sweet, fruity malt loaf, but now it has a darker deeper richness to it. Add in little chocolate chips and stuff the kids. This stuff’s for the grown ups – this is sexy.

It’s so good that Mr GFB finished the loaves for me before I could take pictures and I had to get more. Given this stuff is disappearing as fast as places can get it in, this was a challenge in itself.

 

 

I’m now keeping it hidden – I’ve the Great Manchester Run to do and I’m very tempted to do it in my new Soreen T-shirt…

I’m a lean mean squidgy machine after all…