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[jedidia]

Switzerland! We need your help!

Having tasted chocolate in various parts of the world, I concluded that you always needed our help. You just weren't aware of it.

Except for the Austrians. They make some pretty decent chocolate.

 

[Thunder Chicken]

Having tasted chocolate in various parts of the world, I concluded that you always needed our help. You just weren't aware of it..

I consider "chocolate" and "candy bars" to be two entirely different things. The creamy coffee brown, sweetened, shelf-stable mass-produced confections in wrappers with various gooey additions aren't chocolate. I think we're seeing a candy bar shortage. Not a tragedy IMO.

There might be some chocolate buried in the candy section of the store; Hershey (meh, candy bar without the gooey additions), Ritter-Sport and Toblerone usually, but if you're serious about your chocolate you go to the baking goods aisle or to a specialty foods shop. American Scharffen Berger chocolate is actually killer eating and baking chocolate - if you're a coffee and wine snob this is the chocolate for you.

There are a lot of Lindt stores around, but I don't think it represents the best of Swiss chocolate by a long shot. I suspect that (as usual) we're getting a grossly oversweetened Americanized product.

 

[Andy44]

Folland Gnats, actually.

Thanks, I remember back before the interwebs my dad and I searched a lot of plane spotter books for that one and never identified it.

 

[Thunder Chicken]

I didn't know the Folland Gnat was the real aircraft used in the Hot Shots movies until recently. I really thought they were some sort of papier mache airplane for the sets. Even the few landing scenes where the real aircraft were used I was like "Hmm...that was pretty realistic, great effects."

 

[Andy44]

Hershey always takes a beating from the chocolate snobs. I get it, it's mass-produced, and it's made in the USA, so it must be the Budweiser of chocolate (Budweiser being an example of actual mass-produced American garbage product).

But I disagree to some degree. If you like milk chocolate, Hershey's is fine. If you like dark chocolate, then you have a point and there is much better to be had out there.

Also, Hershey Park made a lot of kids happy in Pennsylvania for a long time, and that's gotta count for something. Even the streetlights in Hershey, PA, looked like big Kisses.

 

[Thunder Chicken]

No hate to Hershey's; it's a good product, just hardly unique.

There's chocolate, and then there's chocolate.

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My wife spent a night in a hotel in Hershey PA - instead of a mint they leave a whole Hershey's bar on your pillow. Pretty classy.

Wife wants to go back to Hershey's, then go to the Peeps factory in Bethlehem PA and eat a fresh warm Peep right off the conveyor belt. It's just fancy marshmallow, I don't get the infatuation. I sure as hell won't drive to PA for a Peep.

I'd drive to PA for some Habbersett scrapple, but that is another matter entirely.

If I ever get diabetes, maybe then I'll just make the rounds to all these places in PA, just so I can get it over with quickly.

 

[PhantomCruiser]

With best Homer Simpson imitation

Mmmmmm, Toblerone

Begins to drool

 

[Andy44]

I can absolutely crush an entire crate of Peeps in no time. Worse than crack those things are.

 

[Linguofreak]

Wife wants to go back to Hershey's, then go to the Peeps factory in Bethlehem PA and eat a fresh warm Peep right off the conveyor belt. It's just fancy marshmallow, I don't get the infatuation. I sure as hell won't drive to PA for a Peep.

For me it's even worse than not getting the infatuation: I have a huge weakness for cute things and can't eat one without feeling as guilty as if I'd bitten the head off of a flesh-and-blood chick.

 

[Thunder Chicken]

For me it's even worse than not getting the infatuation: I have a huge weakness for cute things and can't eat one without feeling as guilty as if I'd bitten the head off of a flesh-and-blood chick.

I'm similarly conflicted about Meat Babies (meat loaf swaddled in bacon)

 

[Pipcard]

That is incredibly disturbing.

 

[Andy44]

I'm similarly conflicted about Meat Babies (meat loaf swaddled in bacon)

That is incredibly disturbing.

 

[Thunder Chicken]

Slicing the baby cake (Official) - YouTube

Drizzle some raspberry sauce on that and it'd be perfect. Yummy.

 

[Linguofreak]

Eeeyaaaaaah! Aaaaaaaaaaaah! AAAAAAAAAH! :leaving:

 

[jedidia]

For me it's even worse than not getting the infatuation: I have a huge weakness for cute things and can't eat one without feeling as guilty as if I'd bitten the head off of a flesh-and-blood chick.

I was about to suggest how difficult you must find easter, but Andy44 already took the cake. All of it. I'm not even sad it's gone.

 

[PhantomCruiser]

You guys can have my share of peeps, I can't stand the things.

Cadbury Eggs OTOH, keep your mitts off. I'll cut ya! :thumbup:


Think I might introduce peeps to the chatboard.

 

[Urwumpe]

RIP Peter Lustig, former German TV host of "Löwenzahn", one of the finest children TV shows in my childhood. The show started to air in 1981 for the first time, the precursor of the show already started in 1979. He hosted the show until 2005.

He also was the responsible sound engineer for the recording of Kennedys "Ich bin ein Berliner" speech, working for the American Army broadcaster AFN initially and later for the German public broadcaster SFB.

He died at the age of 78 among his family in the farmhouse "Fresenhof" near Husum.

 

[TMac3000]

I'm similarly conflicted about Meat Babies (meat loaf swaddled in bacon)

What in God's name is the matter with people?

 

[jedidia]

RIP Peter Lustig, former German TV host of "Löwenzahn", one of the finest children TV shows in my childhood.

I still remember the episode "Peter builds a Robot"!

 

[Evil_Onyx]

Soo, Today I received the last parts for my new PC.

I unpack the shipping box and see the CPU's box is slightly crushed, and a broken seal on it too. then I open the Mother board box and something is not right, I look closer and see the cooler mount has damage, ok I'll get it out the static bag to take a photo, and then find out the whole board is covered in dust.

I paid for a NEW components not some pre-used stuff that looks like its been used for months.

I'm not a happy bunny.