BOUNTY fans are going wild for a new product spotted on Asda’s supermarket shelves.
Eagle-eyed shoppers spotted new Bounty-flavoured chocolate & caramel cake in stores this week.
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The sweet treat is made of a coconut flavour sponge cake filled with milk chocolate chips and desiccated coconut, sprinkled with milk chocolate pieces and more coconut.
Posting in Facebook’s Food Finds UK group, the foodie said: “New at Asda, there wasn’t a price there but there was a Mars one as well above that scanned at £2.”
Shoppers were racing to the comments to share their excitement.
One tagged her friend and said “omg” while the friend replied with “yasss”.
While another said: “Could eat that now”.
Someone else added: “Going there today!”
Mars has confirmed to The Sun that the RRP will be £2.50.
It also confirmed the item will be sold at Asda, B&M, Spar, Nisa, Heron Foods.
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Though some shoppers commented that they’d also seen it at Farmfoods.
Bounty is a controversial flavour for chocolate aficionados.
Just last week, fans were outraged to discover that Bounty had discontinued its dark chocolate bar.
One of the bar’s biggest fans, Piers Morgan, posted on X (formerly Twitter) and said: “I’ve just been told my favourite dark chocolate red wrapper Bounty bars have been discontinued, and this is the last one left in my dressing room stockpile.
“I’m outraged. This will cause immeasurable harm to my mental health. Please reconsider.”
Last Christmas, Mars caused a stir when it removed Bounty bars from some of its boxes of celebrations.
Instead additional Galaxy, Mars, Milkyway, Snickers and Teasers bars were added to 2,000 Bounty-less tubs.
The move was part of a trial to see if shoppers wanted to get rid of Bounty’s permanently.
But it wreaked havoc and Mars assured fans it was just temporary.
Shoppers also just realised that Mars’ Topc Mar is no longer on supermarket shelves.
The Mars favourite was quietly taken off shelves in 2021 and it seems fans are only just starting to realise.
The popular bar contained hazelnuts, nougat and caramel and was first launched in the UK in 1962.
It was initially removed from boxes of Celebrations in 2006, and now it has been taken out of production completely.
In May this year, the confectionary giant confirmed it would be ditching plastic packaging and going back to using paper — like it did up until the mid-1970s.
It means bars will feel a little different, but company bosses promise it will not affect the freshness — or customers will get a refund.
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