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Special Edition Reese's Peanut Butter Bat review


Some say that Heath Ledger's chilling performance as The Joker is the best thing about The Dark Knight. But I dare say that the best thing about The Dark Knight is its promotional Special Edition Reese's Peanut Butter Bat.

Before I get to that, I must expound my philosophy: Reese's Special Edition Cups (which also include Halloween Reese's Peanut Butter Pumpkin and Easter Reese's Peanut Butter Egg) consistently trump traditional cups because they have a higher peanut butter to chocolate ratio. See, classic Cups are weighed down by the shell's chocolate crimping, which leaves us peanut butter lovers pining. But Special Edition Cups forgo the frills and pack as much PB as possible into a thin chocolate casing. In fact, if we're really getting down to brass tacks, Egg beats Pumpkin solely because Pumpkin has the little all-chocolate stem at the top.


Based on that logic, the product image leads one to assume that the crevices of the bat's wings and sonar ears would deliver too much chocolate - sort of a multi-stemmed Pumpkin, if you will. But holy PB, Batman! The dips and dives of this bat's outline are all widely contoured and therein maintain the traditional Special Edition skimming of chocolate. In fact, the wing-body-wing shape of the bat is almost like three mini-Eggs that have been fused together. What seemed to be a conceptual mess is, in actuality, a POW! BIFF! THWACK! of deliciousness.

So while I do not place Bat above Egg, it does earn a solid standing above Pumpkin. It's just a damn shame that this one won't come around annually.


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marquisem

7-30-2008 @10:04AM marquisem said... Since this is for the "Dark" Knight, wouldn't it make sense to use DARK chocolate...? How yummy would that be??
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cmcaligiuri

7-29-2008 @9:54PM cmcaligiuri said... and we chocolate lovers prefer the minis, perfect ratio of chocolate to PB
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Ed T

7-29-2008 @11:07PM Ed T said... I don't see how "chocolate lovers" and Reese's Cups can be used in the same sentence. Has Hershey dumbed down the public palate so much that folks actually think this crap tastes good?
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Tamer Brad

7-29-2008 @11:11PM Tamer Brad said... what the hell kind of bat is that
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Bear Silber

7-29-2008 @11:28PM Bear Silber said... Oh marquisem you're SO right. I love me some Reese's.
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Gobo

7-29-2008 @11:33PM Gobo said... Ed T: Elitism has no place in an article about Reese's Peanut Butter Cups.
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zerocalories

7-30-2008 @12:54AM zerocalories said... oh man, they'll market anything these days
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Scott

7-30-2008 @9:11AM Scott said... I will also sing the greatness that is the Reeses Egg. If this trumps that I'm going out to buy a case if I can
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Baron

7-30-2008 @12:14PM Baron said... White chocolate eggs trumps all.
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ghanima

8-01-2008 @3:41PM ghanima said... I was just explaining to a non-PB-lover yesterday the virtues of the special edition Reese products. I agree wholeheartedly with this review. If only the major, commercial chocolate manufacturers would stop unnecessarily adding milk and milk products to their treats, I (and other lactose intolerants) would finally be able to eat them without fear of repercussion!
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Hungover Gourmet

8-04-2008 @7:16PM Hungover Gourmet said... There's also a Kit Kat tie-in with a "special designed bar" but I haven't tried it yet. I wolfed down the Reese's PB Bat Bar one night but I was sorta drunk so it was all just a beery, peanut buttery blur.
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