Poll I want candy!

Drove all the way to Council Bluffs this morning to watch Avatar in IMAX 3D.  My thoughts on the movie?  Beautiful.  Colorful.   Realistic and believable feline aliens.   Lots of side boob.  The story was utterly predicable.  It's a human-invader-tries-to-fit-in-with-aliens movie, how many permutations are actually possible?  Not many, obviously ( Read more... )

Walgreens has the Crest Spinbrush Pro Whitening powered toothbrush on special, if you buy one (about $8) you get a coupon for $3 off your next Walgreens purchase. I bought one today, then turned around and used the $3 to buy candy. Heh ( Read more... )

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I never thought I'd ever find something better than See's Peanut Brittle.  But I have.  Ethel's Classic Buttery Pecan Brittle is the most fantastic stuff ever.  Sugar, Butter, Pecans.  It's creamy and buttery and it's not rock hard like most nut brittles.  I bought a box of the stuff at the Berkshire Hathaway meeting a couple weeks ago and only ( Read more... )

3400 Phinney Coconut Curry 40% milk chocolate

This bar probably intimidated me the most, with the exception of the bacon bar.  I mean, curry and chocolate?  That's not something you think about going together.  However, the flavors work really well.  You can really taste the curry and the coconut and they blend quite well with the chocolate.  The ( Read more... )

Hachez Cocoa d'Arriba 77% dark chocolate Strawberry & Pepper

That's pepper as in black pepper, the stuff you grind up and sprinkle over eggs.  I'm all for strawberries and chocolate, and pepper sounded like an interesting idea.  I did not like this bar.  The strawberry flavor was totally overpowered by the pepper.  The package shows flakes of ( Read more... )

Lindt Creation 70% dark chocolate Cherry & Chili

This bar consisted of several large squares of chocolate with a thick filling in the middle.  The filling tasted fairly strongly of cherry, with a slight sudden heat to it.  Unlike the Lindt Excellence Chili Dark, the heat didn't build up as you ate the bar; instead, it passed very quickly.  There was ( Read more... )

The Tea Room 58% Dark Chocolate Green Earl Grey Tea

This chocolate bar was rather disappointing.  The Earl Grey tea flavor was so slight, I could just barely taste it.  If I didn't read on the package that it was supposed to be Earl Grey, I'd have never noticed it at all.  If I'm paying this much for a novelty flavored chocolate, I expect to ( Read more... )

As I slowly savor my way through the stack of exotic chocolate bars I bought the other day, I'll post my thoughts and opinions on them.  For now, I'll cover some bars I'd purchased previously.

Vosges Mo's Bacon Bar (applewood smoked bacon, alder wood smoked salt, 41% milk chocolate)

This was probably the most unusual candy bar I've ever seen.  Bacon ( Read more... )