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Chex Mix Chocolate Chunk Bars

Looks: This bar looks like someone took the bar on the box and bashed it with a hammer. There are none of those mini chocolate pieces, the Chex pieces are all crumbled, and the bar is struggling to maintain a rectangular shape. 2.5 out of 5

Taste: I think I have the actual recipe for this bar: take some Chex mix, pour some sickly-sweet chocolate all over it, bash it with a hammer, and then have a kindergarten class form this mix into bars. The bar is very gritty - it falls apart when you bite it, and the chocolate is too sweet for this to be in the same category as granola/nut bars, putting it firmly in the cookie/sweets category. 3 out of 5

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Kellogg's Chocolate Chip FiberPlus Bar

Looks: Maybe if I had left this bar under my photography lamps a little longer, the chocolate would have gotten all melty like on the box. The oats look a little off too - I don't see any white ones on the box. 4 out of 5

Taste: The dark chocolate and almond version of this bar is amazing; but this one only "very good." I found the milk chocolate a little too sweet, and the bar itself is a little less chewy than the dark chocolate one. Still very tasty though; don't get me wrong. 4 out of 5

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Wendy's Junior Frosty (Chocolate)

Looks: Have you ever wanted to feel like a giant but didn't want to undergo painful leg-lengthening surgery? Just pick up a Jr. Frosty from Wendy's! This thing is seriously small: about 3 inches from top top bottom - that's half the length of a dollar bill.

I suppose it should be small, since it's "Junior," but just holding it in my hand made me feel enormous. (As for the actual food contents, it's pretty close to advertised, albeit a little more melted, but it had undergone a 10-minute car ride before I could take pictures of it.) 4.5 out of 5

Taste: It was pretty close to the "shakes" I used to make as a kid: fill a cup with vanilla ice cream, add an unseemly amount of chocolate syrup, and then stir until it's mixed and the ice cream has melted enough to be shake-consistency. (This is not a bad comparison; I loved those shakes.) There's not much else to say, except that I ate it so fast I got brain-freeze. So, don't do that. 4 out of 5

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