I tried Aldi's mystery flavoured hot cross bun
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00:00Here I've got the Aldi Village Bakery Mystery Flavour Hot Cross Buns. I was looking for
00:13these down the bakery aisle, but they were actually in a massive bin, for want of a better
00:20word, near the tills. So if you go in, that's where they are. There's two of them for £99
00:27and the idea is that you've got to guess the flavour, so that's exactly what I'm going to do.
00:32And if you have your go yourself, look, you can win a £1000 Aldi gift card by submitting your
00:41thoughts on the flavour on that QR code. So yeah, let's get on with it. So this is it out of the
00:46packet. There's little bits of fruit, I don't know if it's a raisin, sultana, which is traditional.
00:55It looks a little bit flat in my opinion, but not chocolate. It says on the packet there,
01:01don't be fooled by the pack colour. So it's got quite a strong, I think a citrusy smell,
01:12but I'm going to halve it now, put it in the toaster and see what I think to the taste.
01:16Just before I do put it in the toaster, that is the inside of it.
01:23I don't know, do they look like sultanas? I think they probably do.
01:31While that is in the toaster, this is cheating, but look, it says on the back,
01:39mixed fruit. So we can see that we've got apple juice in there, concentrated apple puree.
01:48We've got mango puree, concentrated pineapple juice, blueberry concentrate. I'm sure somewhere
01:55I've seen something about, there we go, strawberry concentrate. So yeah, that's cheating. I know it's
02:03cheating, but I think the flavours will be very hard to distinguish. We'll see. So here we've got
02:13the halved, toasted and buttered hot cross buns. So I'm going to try them and see what I think,
02:20but the smell, now that they've been toasted, I think it's quite lemon and limey, quite citrusy.
02:27Definitely a citrus, a citrus flavour. I don't know whether to get a certain flavour, you need to put in all those other parts.
02:45It's difficult knowing that all those mixed fruits have gone into it, because I really can't taste
02:51any individually, and I wouldn't say it tastes of mixed fruit. It doesn't taste to me like a fruit salad.
02:57I think it tastes quite like lime. I think there's a lemon and lime thing going on here.
03:06And overall, I know I said they looked a little bit flat, but they're quite tasty, they are quite nice.
03:13So have a look out in your local Audi, enter the competition and good luck. I hope you win £1,000.