Kinder Bueno White: Better Than The Normal? [Review]
My friend Neil just got back from a trip to the Netherlands and was kind and awesome enough to bring me back a bunch of Dutch chocolates. When he handed…
Nestle’s PR Woes
About a month ago, Nestle found itself the target (note: sort of graphic photo near the bottom of the linked page) of a guerilla campaign. Greenpeace decided to take Nestle…
Life Savers Gummies – Sweet Strings N Sour Rings
The candy blogger in me is hyper-attuned to candy packaging that indicates that its contents are a new product. The pseudo-grammar nazi in me is hyper-attuned to instances of annoyingly…
Giant Jawbreaker Saga
I’ve often seen giant jawbreakers in candy stores, but I didn’t think anyone actually bought them, much less ate them. Well, I was wrong. Via Serious Eats, a blogger that…
Alter Eco Dark Chocolate Quinoa – Midnight Crunch
When I met my sweetie in Saratoga Springs*, our wanderings about that cute little town took us into a natural food store. This Alter Eco Dark Chocolate Quinoa (aka Midnight…
Chocolate tasting with the NCA
Candy Dish Blog, the blog of the NCA (National Confectioners Association had a couple of posts up about chocolate tasting and how chocolate is made with Jacques Torres (aka Mr.…
Hachez Cocoa D’Arriba Blackberry and Cocoa Nibs
Like many random chocolate bars that I wind up buying for review, this Blackberry and Cocoa Nibs bar from Hachez wound up in my cart because it was on sale…
Got Leftover Peeps?
If you have leftover Peeps from your Easter baskets, or if you’ve stocked up on them in post-Easter candy sales, why not turn them into Peepshi (Peeps sushi), Peeps Krispie…
Grape Vines
Red Vines were not a childhood candy of mine. In fact, I never heard of them until they were proclaimed “crazy delicious” in The Chronic(WHAT?)Cles of Narnia (tangent: man, rewatching…
Chocablog’s Thorntons Tour
When I was a kid, I loved the picture-picture segments on Mr. Roger’s Neighborhood, which showed videos of factories making things like raincoats and crayons. The automated assembly lines absolutely…
World’s Finest Chocolates [Review]
These World’s Finest Chocolates?came courtesy of my dad, who was apparently too kind-hearted to turn down the kid selling them as a fundraiser. According to Wikipedia, the World’s Finest Chocolate…