Mahalo, Mahalo
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About a year ago I saw an ad in VegNews Magazine that featured vegan candy bars from Go Max Go. Vegan candies are nothing new, but these particular candy bars looked especially tasty. They looked like vegan versions of familiar nonvegan candy bars.
I wanted them!
So I found their website and I read that the candy bars weren’t available anywhere near me. Oh well, I thought, as usual those Portland peeps and veg New Yorkers get all the luck when it comes to tasty vegan food.
A few months later I was browsing the web again and found the site yet again. This time I clicked on the contact link and wrote:
“Hi! Pretty, pretty, pretty please will you send me some of your vegan candy bars? I promise to write a review for Vegan Soapbox. And if you send me a bunch of them, I promise to pass them out to local vegans and tell them where they can buy more. Pretty please…?”
You should know something about this correspondence: This was a unique event. I very rarely solicit review items.
[In fact I can't remember any other time when I've explicitly asked for a review product. I do receive the occasional vegan cookbook (I've gotten about five in the last two years) with a note asking me to review it. Usually I review the book (or beg someone else to review it since I'm not big on cooking for myself). And often I give the book away, too.]
But in this case, with the candy bars, they were just sooooo appealing looking that I reached out and asked for samples. See how appealing they look?
Alas, the response I received was a cold-hearted NO. They explained that the candy bars would melt during transport. But luckily, a store nearby would soon carry them.
I forgot to mark my calendar. But when I remembered my Vegan MoFo obligation (to write something food related on the odd days of October) I thought, I wonder if they carry the candy bars yet. Indeed, they did.
I purchased two candy bars (at an above-average candy bar price). I chose the Mahalo (“a gently sweetened coconut candy bar topped with three whole dry roasted almonds and covered in a luscious chocolately coating“) and Buccaneer (“a rich, fluffy, chocolately nougat covered in a creamy chocolately coating“) since the other two (Jokerz and Twilight) have caramel and I don’t like caramel.
The Buccaneer was alright, but nothing exciting. The richness is overwhelming. It didn’t bring back fond memories or fill a craving niche. Not for me, anyway. However, the Mahalo is to die for! Simply put, this is my new favorite food!
As I told my husband this morning, “Forget flowers or jewelry… next time you want to get me something nice, get me a Mahalo candy bar!” Mahalo, Mahalo, for making my vegan candy bar dreams come true!
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