Chocolate and Fruit

Is a combination I always associate with a bad after taste at a 1950's kids birthday party being served, chocolate cake and fruit punch. Usually I associate this with "citrus" but have lately found some good orange and chocolate confections at Godiva and Lindt bars.

So y'see I can be broad minded and give a previously avoided combination another chance, and be won over.

BUT, the chocolate covered dried "other" fruit just never struck the chord as dark chocolate & raisens.

If anyone would like to send me something please PM me for address. Before late May, please.

If anyone sends it, I'll try it.

Well maybe not chocolate covered scorpions.

Moi

Populism and Chocoholism mix! ref. Milton Hershey

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I have a wind-up toy rabbit that hops along the table, pooping out chocolate-covered raisins with every hop. I laugh like a child whenever I show it to anyone.

And, yes, Moi, I too dislike the waxy-ness of most easter chocolate.

I've never heard of nor seen "PEEPS"; must be a USA-only thing?

I do however have access to Kinder Surprise eggs, which I hear are banned in the USA; fun toys, disgusting chocolate.

My one big easter candy weakness; I ABSOLUTELY LOVE Cadbury Easter Cream Eggs. I know, I know... mediocre quality chocolate, horrible artery-clogging cream filling with dye... but dear God Almighty, they taste like heaven.

Cadbury does do a good cream filling but See's is local, fresh and a little bit better. X-mas time See's has a special yummy filling called

mince meat. Dark Chocolate of course.

But, if you never tried the Passover Candies

yada yada yada, they will be gone by April 19.

If anyone tries some dark chocolate covered matzo or dark chocolate marshmallow please report it.

I like a good, real white chocolate now and then but not a vanilla flavored one nor a coconut one. Anyone got a fav white chocolate? Please no lecture on cocoa powder.

I had an Easter white chocolate cross that ingredients wise was real.

My catholic roommate and I shared it. We called it the "White Cross of

Bajesus". He is the patron saint of frustrated people and the most often prayed to as one hears someone yell, "Sweet Bajesus" Or "Holy Bajesus"

Only saw that confection that one year. Then it got substituted with plastic.

Moi

Easter Time!!!

Well, I have started early......

Easter bunny, humpty dumpty, and numerous others have already gone into this boys gut.

It's lucky that I don't put weight on easily!

Thoughout the rest of the year I like to eat basic milk chocolate (I'm a fan of simple foods, don't care much for dark chocolate unless it's a mint slice); blocks of cadbury's. My favourites are the normal flavour and the turkish delight.

I'm as bad as Edmund with the White Witch!

Sees candy, one of the very few things I miss from the west coast. sigh, Butter Creams mmmmmmmmmmmm.

River

StefanIsMe (imported) wrote: Mon Apr 18, 2011 9:45 pm My one big easter candy weakness; I ABSOLUTELY LOVE Cadbury Easter Cream Eggs. I know, I know... mediocre quality chocolate, horrible artery-clogging cream filling with dye... but dear God Almighty, they taste like heaven.

Me too, but the price keeps going up and this year they finally passed beyond my price range. I did have a couple but Moi is right, the only thing better is a hand packed lbs of Sees Candy.

River

StefanIsMe (imported) wrote: Mon Apr 18, 2011 9:45 pm I've never heard of nor seen "PEEPS"; must be a USA-only thing?

It a marshmallow form of a little chicken, flat and ugly that has a crusty shell covered in something you know you would not like to know what it is, they are the most god awful things you have ever had the misfortune to put into your mouth. I understand what they don't sell this year they put out again next year, actually they have not made any for years and know that at some point the inventory will finally be gone. I guess its one of those you either love them (Dave) or you hate them, (everybody else). I asked my son if he likes peeps and he said for what? target practice? my other son said there fun dog treats as it gets caught in the gum's of the dogs mouth, funny as hell. I was in the store the other day and they had about 12 ft floor to top of rack filled with the damn things, fully 1/5 of all the Easter candy out, go figure, we are going to see a lot of sick dogs.

River

Dark Chocolate covered raisens or cranberries?

Definitely raisins. I have been testing all night and it is the raisins. Maybe it is time to give chocolate covered ginger another try.

Moi

moi621 (imported) wrote: Sat Apr 30, 2011 8:26 pm Maybe it is time to give chocolate covered ginger another try.

Moi

No! Ginger is a treat on itself (in it's candied form, do not know, how it is properly called).

Sadly, due to dental braces I can not bite it properly now....

Crystalline Ginger possibly. ?

Crystal sugar coating on tender, dried ginger slices.

Chocolate covered ginger can be found easier then good crystalline ginger.

I could just go to See's, Taucher's, or even Trader Joe's to find it.

Quality crystalline ginger is harder to find I think or maybe I have not looked. I could just go to any of a number of Asian supermarkets nearby.

BTW although I like Russian cocoa the best as it dissolves better then any and has as good a chocolate flavor as any cocoa. I dislike Russian chocolate. Poor "mouth melt" effect because it is so hard. As chocolate covered bird's milk it is a great treat.

Moi