Archive for May, 2007

Etruscan Chocohotel Tagliatelle al Cacao

During my recent stay at the Chocohotel in Perugia, I spent quite a while in their fabulously well-stocked Chocostore, picking out numerous items to review for this site. This is the only item I came back with that had the Chocohotel brand name, and fittingly enough it’s another unusual find - chocolate pasta!

The chocolate tagliatelle [...]

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Posted by Simon on 17 May 2007 at 08:05 PM in Reviews | Comments (4)

Hershey’s Whole Bean

Hershey’s Whole Bean is part of the Hershey’s Goodness range and positioned to promote the health benefits of chocolate.

The packaging claims 7g of fibre per serving and “40% less sugar than the leading milk chocolate”. That’s a fact I find a little surprising, considering this stuff is really sweet.

And I quote:
Ingredients: Milk chocolate (milk; sugar; [...]

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Posted by Dom on 16 May 2007 at 08:05 PM in Reviews | Comments (4)

Mars no longer suitable for vegetarians

Many of Mars UK’s biggest selling chocolate products are no longer suitable for vegetarians from this month because Masterfoods has inexplicably decided to start using animal rennet in its chocolate.

The affected products include:

Mars Bar
Snickers
Twix
Maltesers
Bounty
Mily Way
Minstrels

…in other words, just about everything that Mars makes.

According to BBC News, Mars says [...]

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Posted by Dom on 16 May 2007 at 12:05 PM in News | Comments (7)

J.D. Gross Extra Bitter 75% Trinidad Sticks

Another offering from the J. D. Gross / LIDL stable of chocolate (which, as we now know thanks to our astute and helpful readers, is made by Rausch).

So enthusiastic and knowledgeable are our readers that I received a comment about this particular brand before I had even had time to review it (thanks Ulli) so [...]

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Posted by Simon on 15 May 2007 at 08:05 PM in Reviews | Comments (6)

Hershey’s All Natural Extra Dark

I’m sitting her with half a piece of Hershey’s Extra Dark 60% cacao chocolate melting in my mouth, and I still can’t decide if I like it or not.

I’m delighted to report that it tastes like chocolate. With only one exception (Dark Chocolate Kisses), every single piece of Hershey’s Chocolate I’ve tasted has made me [...]

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Posted by Simon on 14 May 2007 at 03:05 PM in Reviews | Comments (7)