A little over a week ago, I discovered the new eater of my minimal grad student disposable income: A Southern Season. It’s a megalopolis of gourmet goods: fine meats and cheeses and…
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REVIEW: Milk Chocolate Salty Pocky!
I found these Milk Chocolate Salty?Pocky at an Asian grocery store back home in Austin. I immediately snatched them up – salt + chocolate has always struck me as a European thing,…
REVIEW: See’s Awesome Nut & C
This See’s Awesome Nut & Chew Bar was another mall stand buy. The 1.5 oz bar was described as “chewy nougat with almonds and honey covered in dark chocolate.” The bulk of…
Harbor Sweets Perennial Sweets
On Wednesday, I reviewed my free sample?Harbor Sweets’s Sand Castle Dark Chocolate and Caramel Bar. Today, I’m reviewing their Perennial Sweets, another free sample that I received. The Perennial Sweets was a…
Sweetriot – Pure 70% and 85% Choco
Today I’m reviewing the rest of my free samples of Sweetriot’s new riotBar line: the pure 70% and pure 85% dark chocolate bars. I covered the 60% dark chocolate with crunchy cacao…
Sweetriot – Pure 60% Dark Chocolat
Sweetriot?recently sent me free samples of their?new line of chocolate riotBars.?Before the riotBar additions, they sold chocolate in unBars, which were in thick, unwieldy blocks. I have an unBar that’s been?kicking around…
Trader Joe’s Tahitian Vanilla Cara
Cybele?reviewed?Trader Joe’s Dark Chocolate Tahitian Vanilla Caramels about a year ago, which first put them on my radar.?The little bag nearly escaped my notice in the store. It was near the checkout…
Javaz Dark
Here’s the second of the two bags of Javaz that I found at Cost Plus World Market. I reviewed the milk ones on Wednesday, and today’s review is of the dark version….
Sanders Milk Chocolate Sea Salt Caramel
Sanders Fine Chocolates was not a brand that I was previously familiar with. I was in the Duke Hospital getting a prescription filled and saw several displays of Sanders chocolates in the…
Enstrom’s Milk Chocolate Almond To
I received this box of Enstrom’s Milk Chocolate Almond Toffee as a free sample from the manufacturer. Apparently they’ve been making their toffee by hand for over 50 years! The box’s description…
Eiffel Bon Bons
When I was in middle school and high school, we used to sell these little bags of Eiffel Bon Bons to raise money for French Club and the National French Honor Society….
Haribo Fruity-Bussi
Haribo Fruity-Bussi are the fruity corollary to the Jogi-Bussi that I reviewed on Monday. They were the same mix of gummi, foam, and goo as the Jogi-Bussi, but not yogurt-based. I far…