Same here. I’m not one for sweets, but peanut butter and chocolate, or chocolate-covered pretzels will get me every time, even though Reese’s peanut butter is pretty sweet, as is.
Nuts + chocolate is a classic flavor combination. If you don’t like that combo, fine, but otherwise, I don’t see the mystery in liking chocolate and peanut butter.
Yup. However, mix that PB with some powdered sugar, a little melted butter, some finely crushed graham crackers as a binder, then dip in chocolate and you’ve got some buckeye goodness.
As the old commercials explained for us, the chocolate/peanut butter combination is not something that anyone would think to try, since most people eat chocolate and peanut butter by themselves, but when a serendipitous accident happens, we find that the combination is astonishingly delicious!
Reese’s PB cups are very good, but I can get very sick of it very quickly. So in small doses mixed in with plain chocolate treats it has some staying power with me. I think its appeal is because it’s not as sweet as plain chocolate and has a saltier peanutty taste. For instance I like peanut butter M&Ms which is just the peanutty stuff inside a candy shell. There’s no chocolate there, but the shell offers a sweet contrast to the peanutty interior.
I know Reeses make’s flavors of chocolate/peanut butter cups, and the only kind I hate is dark chocolate + peanut butter. So it might be something about that combo that is off putting
I don’t get the attraction of mint as a dessert flavor (Thin Mints, mint chocolate chip ice cream, Junior Mints). Mint is for toothpaste and cigarettes and Vapo-Rub, not candy.
Ratio matters: I like the Reese’s miniatures a lot more than the standard cups. There is a little more chocolate in the miniatures and it somehow makes all the difference to me.
I bought a new kind of Reese’s PB about a week ago, but I can’t find it even on the Reeses website. It was a segmented hard chocolate bar in I think a 4 by three grid, with PB inside every square. It was better than a PB cup I have to admit, and I love PB cups.
NOT to be confused with the miniature peanut butter cups. These come in a bag, they’re not individually wrapped, and each is about half the size of a Hershey’s Kiss. And they are perfection.
I love the Reese’s PB cups but they seem to have changed at some point. They seem to be oily underneath the last few years and I don’t think they were always like that. I still love 'em.
Not a fan of thin mints or junior mints, but I do like mint choc chip ice cream. The coolness of the ice cream balances the mint in a similar way to the sweet and salty balance of a pb cup.