Extra Crunchy M&M

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…

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 Truffles

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…