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Consumer surveys. You’ve gotta love ‘em.

Companies often commission surveys in order to get a better idea of what their customers want and to help figure out the best direction to take their business.

A case in point is the recent survey by eToys.com. Their in-depth questioning of consumers produced this vital statistic:

86% of adults [...]

It was not without a sneaking feeling of trepidation that I approached this bar. It has been on the Aussie scene for a few months now, but with little fanfare. Apart from a poster featuring an Anna-Nicole Smith clone dressed in a tight white nurse’s uniform above the bar at my local bus [...]

We’ve already reviewed Fry’s Chocolate Cream on Chocablog, but now it’s time to take a look at its fruitier sibling. Now, having a fruity sibling might be something the average human being would be slightly ashamed of, but in this case it’s definitely something to be proud of.

On the surface, this bar looks exactly like [...]

Green & Black’s Organic Ginger vs Waitrose Swiss Plain with Ginger

As an interesting diversion (and an exercise in self-indulgence, naturally) I thought I’d have a little head-to-head competition between two similar sounding bars.

Something I have always been very fond of is ginger. Not ginger flavour, but root ginger. Crystallised, preserved, or just added to foodstuffs, [...]

Luckily for us Aussies, the two words, ‘Cherry’ and ‘Ripe’ don’t have quite the unsavoury sexual connotations they do in the US, ala the ‘Porky’s’ videos I remember seeing as an impressionable teenager in 1982 or thereabouts.

Here, ‘Cherry Ripe’ means a very popular, yet sophisticated chocolate bar. The photo to the right is the [...]