Strange things you're not used to

[Alex & Rachel 78]

I have found that Hershey (*GASP*) do a semi-ok chocolate called "Symphony". It is not as waxy as the other stuff and if it is at room temperature, it melts in your mouth like cadburys It's in a cream wrapper and costs about $1.49 for a large bar (like 150g or something)

Aly is correct (and, of course, lovely). "Symphony" is available at just about any supermarket or drugstore.

This conversation about chocolate is interesting. I've noticed that chocolate in Ecuador & Mexico -- even the bargain-priced stuff -- is largely superior in taste to that in the U.S., for some reason. The foreign chocolate melts FAR more quickly, though.

Gee, 57 words without a punchline... I must be sick.

Recovery: If we smear the above-mentioned melted confection on a large, antlered Canadian animal, do we then have chocolate mousse?

More like chocolate moose...

I think the waxiness of American choc is so it doesn't melt so fast... but if you keep it in the fridge it is fine

Yup! It's the preservatives they put in the chocolate.

Even Cadbury's exports a recipe with preservatives in to the US.

Fortunately Trader Joe's stocks a wide range of preservative-free, high-quality organic chocolate!

[TBoneTX 45,291]

late to the discussion as ever

Late, but The Prettiest!

I don't, of course, need to point out that there are WORSE things to be turned off eating than bacon and chocolate

Like tripe, si man?

[StillThePrettiest 3]

yes, tripe; whenever I leave something unsaid, you can be sure that the answer is 'tripe'

[melusine 5]

yep the hershey chocolate (specially that one) taste kinda like vomit.... eeuurrkk this is disgusting !

I miss the milka chocolate from france and the milky way from france (not the same as the milky way here that are more like mars)

Oh! and the "danette au chocolat" and the mousse aux marrons i don't remember the name !

I also made a test last week with organic fruits...

and was amazed at how tasty they were compared to usual fruits (try the nectarine and the pears).. that was to die for !

[VisaJourneyLady 33]

I have to thank this thread for the fact that when I went in to a supermarket yesterday I didn't freak out!! It sounded like the roof was caving in, and for a second I thought "there just could not be thunder, I was outside 5 seconds ago and the sky was as blue as ever'. No... it was a case of the very stupid sound effects on the fruit and veg aisle!!! It took me a second, but when I realised what it was I just could not stop smiling to myself. I'm sure the other customers were wondering why I had an inane smile on my face and was looking in fascination at the fresh produce.

[Trompe le Monde 1,107]

Where are these supermarkets with sound effects? I have never been to one!

[StillThePrettiest 3]

the first time I heard that I thought of this thread too

I thought Milka chocolate was German...?

[VisaJourneyLady 33]

It was the Vons on Los Feliz and Central. The Vons in Santa Monica didn't have them, or at least I didn't notice them if they had. It was very weird. I'm not sure how the sound of thunder helps sales of produce. :S

[weedebz 0]

cadbury's here is a tricky one. Occasionally in some stores it's real UK cadbury's for the most part it's just Hershey's in cadbury's packaging. It even says manufactured under licence by Hershey's on the back.

Around easter walmart was selling real cadbury's creme eggs from the UK...I stock piled!!!!!

I agree about the bacon, it's just pumped full of water and grease. I always seem to end up with a pan full of white yuck and it's swimming in grease. Not to mention that it's 1/4 of the size it was when I started.

REALLY MISSING MY HOBNOBS!!!!!

[StillThePrettiest 3]

they have Hobnobs in some of the British sections in the supermarkets I go to... can't remember if it's Kroger or HEB, but one of them at least

[Reba 2]

I don't, of course, need to point out that there are WORSE things to be turned off eating than bacon and chocolate

Chocolate is good for you, you should eat more actually. Bacon...not so much.

[weedebz 0]

they have Hobnobs in some of the British sections in the supermarkets I go to... can't remember if it's Kroger or HEB, but one of them at least

there are NO british type food places around here. I'm currently saving pennies to go to world market when I go to Omaha for my biometrics. This is the only place I know of and it's 3hrs away.

[StillThePrettiest 3]

Chocolate is good for you, you should eat more actually.

what if I eat seventeen kilos a day?

[Krikit 1,164]

If you can find a proper butcher or a Polish or Italian deli you might be able to get some decent bacon. But there really isn't anywhere I've found that you can get it. Or maybe do a search for a desi grocery in your area. They carry a lot of British products and may have some. I'd also put in a request for what you want at your local supermarket. They always tell me if they can find it they'll order it.

[TBoneTX 45,291]

REALLY MISSING MY HOBNOBS!!!!!

* Colonistic sigh * WHAT are "hobnobs"? Is it related to horn-on-the-hob, or norn-on-the-nob, or another talking vegetable? How does a hobnob differ from, say, a gossipnossip?

Question: Are people who silently laugh at sound-effects in the Produce aisle considered to be mental vegetables?

Q: If a cabbage and a carrot had a race, who would win?

A: The cabbage, because it's a head.

Definition for the Day: Vegetarian, n. - 1. Someone who fought in a war. 2. A horse-doctor.

Unrelated (yet undeniably clever, if we may so very modestly admit) Definition #2 for the Day: Condo, n. - a California bird of prey, indigenous to individually owned housing-units within a multiunit structure, and endangered because of its constant use of birth control.

...Had it initially been made clear what "hobnobs" were, much of the above could have been avoided.