If you especially enjoy blue peanut M&Ms, maybe you shouldn’t read about the woman who found a tiny mammal bone inside a blue peanut M&M. The blue ones are my favorite (for no good reason), but only when they’re bone free. I know it’s nigh impossible to keep everything out in food factories, which is…
Month: April 2009
Schocolat – Part II
A continuation of Monday’s review, the next five chocolates in my Schocolat box. First up at the top, a salted caramel that wasn’t in their chocolate guide, I guess because they’re usually sold in boxes of all caramels. As with the bunny chew from Monday, it’s a stiff caramel that really gets in your teeth….
975 pages about chocolate?
And I thought my 14 pager was decent chocolate scholarship… From a NY Times Food Stuff brief, news of a 975 page book entitled Chocolate: History, Culture, and Heritage. I wonder how one goes about getting Mars to subsidize your research. Maybe if I used Mars chocolates as food rewards in my behavioral psychology studies?
Schocolat – Part I
Earlier this month, my friend Rita received a package from her mother with the following note: “Hi Rits, I’ve been meaning to send these for ages to Rosa for evaluation. They looked so good, maybe she’ll share some with you.” Inside the package was a lovely box of chocolates from Schocolat. I love Rita, and…
Starbucks Caramel Macchiato and Caffe Mocha Truffles
Today brings us reviews of two more chocolates from Starbucks, their Caramel Macchiato, and Caffe Mocha Truffles. I gave the Chai Truffles a meh review last time, but I had coupons, so I went ahead and bought more to try. StarbucksĀ Caramel Macchiato Truffles Review: First up, theĀ Caramel Macchiato Truffles are billed as “marvelous milk chocolate…
Candy Corn Dolls
I know Halloween is ages away, but Dan Goodsell just posted his new candy corn dolls on his site, and they’re ridiculously adorable. Click here to buy your own. I’ve got a Joe the Egg from the time I participated in Mr. Toast’s tour of the US. He may be getting a sweet, tricolored companion…
Orbit Mist
As promised yesterday (I rearranged things to publish this review two days early; yesterday’s post originally promised the gum review for Friday), I’ve got a new gum review for y’all courtesy of a generous box of free samples from Wrigley. By the way, they called me the wrong name in the form email they sent…
I’m a self-confessed gum addict?
Conde Nast’s Portfolio has an article about gum – and how gum sales are doing in this economy (a good chunk of journalism is variations on a theme, I suppose). My favorite part of the article was this paragraph: Rosa Li, a psychology student at Yale and self-confessed gum addict who reviews chewing gums on…
Wooo!! + Hershey’s Barbie giveaway winner
Dear readers, At some point today, before 4 pm EST, I will turn in my completed undergrad thesis about the origins of prospect theory preferences. Hooray! Thus, I am taking the day off. Sort of. I’ve got a final project presentation for a graduate level seminar on Tuesday and a final exam in another seminar…
Taza Stone Ground Organic Chocolate, 80%
Taza Chocolate made it onto my radar via my friends Justin and Nana, who highly recommended it. Unfortunately, because they’re a small artisan company, the chocolate isn’t that widely sold in stores, and shipping chocolate gets expensive, so I resigned myself to waiting until the next time I went home (probably after graduation) to try…