I've just bought a bag of Maltesers and, on the packet, is written "New Easy Open and Reclosable".
Why on earth would anyone want to reclose a bag of Maltesers? Strange people!
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How do they make Maltesers?
So Dave Mash and I have been discussing this for the best part of 20 minutes now and we're no closer to an answer.
How do they make Maltesers so perfect and round with an even coating of chocolate all over and no obvious marks left by grappling devices?
We've discussed many potential methods, all of which we ultimately had to reject. Mash had an idea that they're fired through a curtain of running chocolate, which I dismissed as this would result in an absence of chocolate on the trailing side, and besides, how would they catch them without ruining the coverage?
We moved onto the idea of trays of rolling chocolate covered ball bearings, which rotate the naked maltesers as they move down the conveyor and expose each side to a coating of chocolate, but dismissed that as again, its unlikely the coating would be even, and the direction of malteser travel would be random, causing malteser collisions as they progressed, and again, removing that perfect coverage.
So onto moulds, where they're sealed in spherical compartments and chocolate pours in, before they're opened and any seam is removed with a chocolate buffing machine.
Nope. useless.
And so we came to our final idea, and this must be it, for there are no other possible methods: They make Maltesers in Space.
Think about it, there must be a gigantic Masterfoods factory in space, where each naked malteser is given spin in a chamber and then chocolate is sprayed on.
It makes sense. Surely.
Hmmm, methinks you have too much time on your hands.
But seeing as you asked, I decided to look on the Masterfoods website. I didn't find anything about Maltesers on there but I did discover that the same company also makes cat food and cat litter. Nice.
It's like these Mini Pringles they've brought out. They come in packets of 5. It means that you have to keep opening another packet each time.
Why not just use a full size tube then you only have to eat the one.
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