<p>Since I’ve only enjoyed the Teuscher truffles on a couple of occasions, it’s clear to me that more testing is required. BRING ME THE CHOCOLATES!</p>
<p>Godiva is summer chocolate, meaning lots of wax to keep it firm, and that is a fatal flaw. It is pretty, though.</p>
<p>SO where to we get Teuscher and Torres???</p>
<p>Godiva is made by the Campbells Soup Company.</p>
<p>Euroshopper all the way. I bet if I melted it down, poured it into some fancy mould with some shavings on top, gave it a fancy name and then entered it into one of those ridiculous chocolate-tasting events, at least two rich pretentious idiots would call it absolutely exquisite. And then I would tell them I got 100grams of the stuff for 34 cents at the local grocery store, and proceed to laugh my ass off.</p>
<p>uh-oh–here goes:
I like Hershey’s Kisses–the good old milk chocolate ones. And those Dove dark chocolate eggs that are available around Easter.
But I’ll check out Torres. How high is the nicotine content? and thanks for the tip.</p>
<p>I can’t call them “Mozart Balls” - to me, they’re Mozart Kugeln (might have the spelling wrong.) It looses something in the translation (does anyone else remember Alec Baldwin on SNL doing an NPR spoof?)</p>
<p>There’s an article in today’s NYTimes on financial advice to new college graduates: the usual things appear - make sure you put the maximum into retirement that your employer will match, don’t run up credit card debt, make your own coffee (no daily Starbucks) etc. The one that caught my eye was don’t spend a fortune on chocolates. I hadn’t realized it was a widespread vice.</p>
<p>nauru:</p>
<p>Pretentious? Moi?</p>
<p>Taking this way too seriously, fella.</p>
<p>Hi, my name is binx and I’m a chocoholic. (Wish I’d thought of that screen name!) I like most chocolates (except the really cheap stuff that shows up around Easter everywhere.) For the most part, I shun the real expensive kind because I can buy so much MORE other kinds with the same amount of money. An old boyfriend once said my idea of a balanced diet was a Snickers in each hand.</p>
<p>I like plain, milk, dark, nuts, caramel, raisins, orange, etc. But I don’t care for Marzipan. I like pistachios, but not with the Marzipan, so the Mozart Kugeln aren’t worth the Euros to me.</p>
<p>My D is partial to Milkas. Everyone we know who goes to Germany knows to come back with a bunch for her.</p>
<p>I like the Truffles you can get from the Harry and David only certain times of the year. They are incredibly rich and satisfying.</p>
<p>Godiva uses horrible ingredients. overpriced/overrated</p>
<p>Sees - oh say can you See, excellent chocolate for me, what so proudly I inhale, at the twilight’s last gleaming. Whose white stripes and raspberry cream, through the dark chocolate delight, oer the… okay, I’m out. I’ve been known to eat chocolate 3 times a day plus one, when there is a box of Sees in the house. Just love their raspberry and chocolate combinations, and more… too bad we have to MAILORDER them here in Texas, except for a small window of opportunity between Thanksgiving and New Years. :(</p>
<p>For all the See’s lovers, you can get them in Houston at Rice Epicurean (year round, although there may be a more limited selection during the summer), and there are at least two See’s stores in the Houston area and one near Dallas. I also think I saw them in the Seattle airport. All is not lost outside of California. :)</p>
<p>Don’t mean to brag…okay, yes I do. </p>
<p>I have an auntie who works for See’s in California and is very, very generous. </p>
<p>Now I’m going to laugh and run away!</p>
<p>H occasionally brings home See’s from a business trip. They are available at a variety of airports, though tough to find on the east coast.</p>