Kotas Reviews the District 5 Chocolate Bar

Ah, it's a brand new year here at Kotas Reviews. The holidays were a bit hectic, but now things have settled a bit and it's time to get back to some food reviews! To celebrate my triumphant return to blogging, we are gonna have another Theme Week! This week we're tackling all the Hunger Games: Catching Fire themed chocolate bars I could get my hands on! Hold onto your butts, it's gonna be a gimmicky, chocolatey ride!

Now, I am not a fan of the Hunger Games. I read the first book, found Katniss to be a terrible protagonist that I didn't care about, and moved on. I am told, however, that the movies fix a lot of the problems I had with the book, so I suppose I should get off my duff and actually watch them. Still! I've never let my dislike for a movie stop me from enjoying any movie tie-in foodstuffs that might be lurking about, so let's dive in with the offerings from Wild Ophelia's Catching Fire line! First up, District 5 - Power.

This just screams dystopian future!

This bar is exactly what it says on the tin package: Caramel Corn and Chocolate. I will admit I like the packaging on this one. Good placement of the tie-in logo, good placement of the manufacturer's logo, nice font choices, etc. I dislike the color palette used because it really makes the District 5 symbol and  the "Power" label hard to make out. Oh well, at least the candy description is easy to read. Let's open it up!

What, no Golden Ticket? THIS IS AN OUTRAGE.

The bar itself is a little underwhelming. I would expect that a $5 chocolate bar would AT LEAST have the District Symbol molded into the chocolate. Instead all we get is this "diagonal line" pattern. The candy bar smells like dark chocolate and caramel corn, which is a good sign. How does it taste? 

First off, this is some pretty good dark chocolate. Just sweet enough to be extremely tasty without being in the same "super bitter" category as those crazy 85% cacao bars you see in the gourmet section of the candy isle. I mean, I LIKE those chocolates, but this will have much better mass market appeal since it tastes very distinctly different than, say, a Hershey's Dark Chocolate(-ish) product. The bar has visible "bits" of caramel corn in it, but their flavor is not very strong. It adds some brown sugar sweetness to the overall flavor profile, but it is almost an echo rather than a partner to the chocolate. I think it would have benefited from a thicker chocolate bar so that you could have bigger pieces mixed in. It could be better is what I'm saying.

On the FACE Rating System, the District 5 Bar gets 1 smiley face. It's a pretty good dark chocolate bar, but I don't think it was worth its original price. I paid $3 for this, and I feel that's still a bit expensive for what I got. If you get a chance to try it though, it's decent. Tune in tomorrow when we continue our highly ironic journey through the world of Hunger Games themed designer chocolates!