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If you want the real deal you can purchase it in America from small family owned candy companies like Seroogy’s.

http://www.seroogys.com/

It is going to be difficult to give up my Godiva cranberry truffels. BUT, I will do it for my country. I hope nobody buys those for me for christmas…

I know of at least two quality chocolate companies here, both based in Berkeley, CA.  Ghirardelli makes a good “Buick” level chocolate, and across the street is a little company called “Scharfen-Berger.” If you have a “Cost Plus World Market” near you, you may be able to sample some of their 70% cacao goods.

Argh, Ghirardelli is owned by Lindt!

Have we no shame?

Ladies and gentlemen, we have a chocolate gap.

We cannot afford to allow this chocolate gap to continue.  The next thing you know, we will no longer be the world’s leader in sourballs.  After that, the taffy lead will slip away from us.  I blame all of this on the failed Chimpy McBushitler administration.

We have the finest scientitsts in the world.  Our government must begin to spend more and more money to subsidize research in the chocolate industry.  Without such research, we will soon be faced with inferior malted milk balls, and I for one will not accept that.  We must do everything we can, including raising taxes on the rich, to keep American chocolate great.

Thanks you for listening.

Ted Kennedy

LOL It’s comments like that, Steve, that make blogging so much fun.

We certainly don’t want the quality of our balls to go down!

It’s a shame that in order to buy American these days, you must stick to the service sector, such as lawyers and doctors- because if you end up buying something, most likely it was made or assembled somewhere else! Including chocolate.

What I suggest is we drag one of those european know-hows over here to make some chocolate and naturalize him/her.

What I suggest is we drag one of those european know-hows over here to make some chocolate and naturalize him/her.

The Gitmo Chocolate Factory?

nah, not exactly. I’ve met plenty of european guys who like american women. I think I could probably lure one over and convince him.

If that doesn’t work, then…

yeah, it’s sort of like that.

Hormones

For the record, Scharffen-Berger was started by a couple of guys who went to Europe to learn the craft and buy equipment, just like Student^2 suggested.  Except that, being guys in their 50s, they weren’t exactly able to “lure” most chocolatiers over the way S^2 suggests.  :^)

Here’s the website:

http://www.scharffenberger.com/

And some sad news; looks like Hershey bought ‘em.

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/8714460/

Nutella?
A jar of that stuff mysteriously ended up in my apartment a few months back. Gotta say it tasted like crap. Then again, I’ve never been much of a choco-holic.

What ever you people do dont send Bush any chocolate covered pretzels or He might choke himself to death.

The chocolate industry has some cruel employment practices, with children involved.

But it tastes incredible, it’s true.  Hershey’s tastes like flavored wax.  See’s is really good.
Dove, nyah..so so.  Godiva same. 

The most incredible hot chocolate in the world is imported from France by a New York importer/wholesaler but the public can’t purchase it.  It’s mostly private labeled by the small retailers who buy it, I believe.

Snickers, Hersheys, all the ‘drug store impulse stand’ bars, etc., are really not worth eating unless you really like low-end junk.

Nothing like a dark chocolate truffle that melts in your mouth.  If you like mint, that kicks it up a notch.

Diane, pretty please;

http://sayanythingblog.com/2006/06/20/taliban_uses_women_children_as_human_shields/#c148002

Fifth thread you’ve hijacked I’ve counted so far, Jesse.

What DO you want?  Stop being silly.

There’s nothing like Widman’s chocolate covered potato chips.  White chocolate, dark chocolate and milk chocolate. Hand dipped, made in North Dakota.  Hope they serve them up at Agraria for dessert.

I’m not much the candy type, but whenever I’m on the road and hungry but don’t have time to eat I pick up a snickers.  They’re pretty good.

And I’ve had chocolate covered pretzels before, those are good too.  I’m not a real picky eater though.  My idea of fine dining is a burger, fries and milkshake down at the truck stop.

When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty.

-- Thomas Jefferson

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We have a candy company here (that Warren Buffet bought I believe) called Sees Candies.  If you ever get a chance to have someone bring you some back from California if they visit, you’ll never regret it.

They have the most incredible dark chocolate chocolate chip truffles, and fabulous chocolate covered caramels, and seasonal things like the summer white chocolate mint truffle.

I gotta say Rob, sometimes the ‘ol snicker just hits the spot.

The summer white chocolate mint truffle sure sounds good too, though.