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Wednesday, May 21, 2008

That's right, I've raided the candy store for you.  No, no, don't thank me.  Just use the power for good.  Here's the latest (and/or greatest).

Their calls on baby milk powder aside Nestle have finally made diversification worthwhile with a new stable of Club blocks. In particular the peppermint cream has overtaken every minty offering on the market, including ol’skool Peppermint Crisp.  Mind you they’ll probably yank it off the shelves as quickly as it appeared – the only responsible thing to do is to stock up.  It is after all, part of history.  Dark smooth chocolate and perfect creamy minty goodness.  Shatters a little if you're rough, but will leave your fingers worth lickin'.

Making diversification sickly sweet is purple-brother Cadbury with their Desserts range, word on the street (or rather, the streetest streety street of all, the internet) is don’t bother with anything but the Crème Caramel.  And eat it with your eyes closed. 

Not wanting to miss out on the creamy creamy action, Coles has hit the shelves with a budget ‘Belgian’ range.  Just quietly, I doubt it’s from Belgeria.  A cruel temptation of two for 4 bucks has got many chocolate snobs out testing.  Reviews are mixed – some say bland, some say the mint chips are still stuck in their teeth and some say if you get drunk it’s okay.

About 15 years too late, I've become saddened about the changing of the Milky Way insides recipe... it used to be browny whipped goodness yes?  What's with the lump of white sugar?

Try something new, if you don’t like it, melt it down and try this  whoa oh, oh. Closer.


Reader comments (4)

Tobler1 Royalty Tobler1 ON 22 May 2008 02:47:17PM http://www.geekologie.com/2008/05/gourmet_chocolates_shaped_like.php

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LouPardi Royalty LouPardi ON 22 May 2008 11:50:02PM oooh I can't wait for the white chocolate version -for the bleach set. ewwwww

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paintergirl Royalty paintergirl ON 24 May 2008 02:12:00PM coles block of "bellgum" goodness are OKAY. i say 3.5 stars

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LouPardi Royalty LouPardi ON 25 May 2008 01:51:19AM MMmmmm and is OKAY what we deserve? nosiree!

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Lou Pardi is a Melbourne writer, comedian and chocolate assesor. Pardi was trained to use words by a pack of lawyers (a particularly aggressive strain of wolf) in a cave in the basement of a Sydney skyscraper. She eventually escaped to Perth, and then Melbourne where she embraced the arts and is hanging on for dear life. Pardi now applies her words liberally (like chocolate sauce) to celebrate food, chocolate, pasta, theatre, life, death and kittens. And most anything else that crosses her path.