I saw this pack in the supermarket the other day, and though it terribly kitsch.
In the twue spiwit of kitsch, this weview now has to be pwesented with a speech impediment, a combination of Bugs Bunny and I’m feeling it just has to be thith way.
So, Bunny and Cawwots. Or perhapth that thould be cawwotth. Anybody would think itth Eathter Time coming. And that meanth Eggth, and Wabbit Theason (dethending into farth: Wabbit Theason… Duck Theason… Wabbit Theason… Duck Theason…) Them Bwotherth Mithter Warnerth hath a lot to anthwer for.
Yes, its Easter time. Traditional time for chocolate Wabbits and Eggth. How these two got together is a strangely contradictory mystery, because Wabbith DO NOT lay Eggth. This is however the first time I’ve seen the bunny come with Carrots.
Oops, sorry, Cawwotth.
Examining the pack, we have a large box with 130 grams of contents. At a mere $15, this means I’m paying Mr Lindt about $100 / kg for Milk Chocolate. After opening it, you can see, the bunny and egg are not especially large, the Carrots are the novelty item, and worth of further examination. In the end, though, they are just more milk chocolate, presented in a carefully molded plastic tray.
When eating any kind of Easter Rabbits, oops, Wabbitth, in our house there is a very important rule: You HAVE to break the ears off and eat them first. The bigger the ears, the more rigorously the rule is to be enforced. When smaller the children resisted, these days they are more likely to play along. Anything to stop their father busting the ears off when they aren’t looking.
Stripping the bunny and a Cawwot naked reveals that they are, as the box states, just milk chocolate. When stripped, the Cawwot looks more like a folder Mary Poppins (Poppinth?) umbrella. Breaking the ears off the bunny, oops, Wabbit, was kind of hard and I ended up beheading him instead. At least we can see that the chocolate has a generous thickness. It doesn’t taste too bad either, actually – though milk chocolate these days is not really much to my taste. This is quite sweet (backing off the sugar a bit would have made it a bit better), and very rich. It also melts quite slowly. Buy this for novelty value only, it is terribly expensive for what you get. Kids might like it, but for a real chocolate lover, buy them a block of a nice chocolate for about ¼ to ½ the price.
Those of you in Australia may have seen our very own Kath Lockett on Channel Nine’s “A Current Affair” last night. But in case you missed it (or don’t happen to live in Australia) here it is in its entirety
If you want to read more about Lindt’s Maître Chocolatier Thomas Schnetzler, you can read Kath’s full interview with him right here.
Oh – and that book on Kath’s kitchen table… it’s Work/Life Balance For Dummies – by Kath Lockett. You should buy it.
Every now and then, that dusty little shop around the corner – you know the one, it sells everything from flowers to light globes and salami – has some unusual bars of chocolate hidden near the out-of-date packets of Tim Tams. Kägi-Fret Coco was there, and seeing as it was well within its ‘best by’ date and was made by the intriguing sounding Toggenburger of Switzerland, it seemed worth a try. And no – I have no idea if Toggernburger is a local minced meat patty or a family surname and as for Kägi-Fret, it just sounded cute.
The packaging – of which nothing is written in English except for the Australian importers’ details – reminds me of a toothpaste tube and is perhaps aimed at children rather than grown ups. That and because it is a mere 25 grams. Hence the reason why it was necessary to buy two.
As you can see, it’s a small, unassuming, ordinary-looking bar with a fairly thin layer of chocolate. After gently coaxing it out of it’s tight wrapper, a rather pleasant sweet vanilla smell emerged, making the effort seem worth it.
An eager bite revealed two layers of a divine, fluffy white, coconut-flavoured crème wafer filling. It tasted utterly divine and the tiny 25 grams of snack heaven disappeared in seconds. The second bar was on hand to give me the opportunity to behave more calmly and assess the Kagi fret a bit more maturely.
Nope. All gone. Just that delectable More – Please – MORE sensation of exquisitely thin and crunchy wafer, a marshmallowy soft creamy filling that sandwiches them together and covered with a sweet milk chocolate. Three delightful taste sensations that work wonderfully well.
My only gripe is the meagre size. Please, Toggenburger buddies – why not make this a 50 gram bar, or, better still, a 100 gram block?
It’s Chocophile time again, and this time we’ve tracked down and strapped down actress Felicia Day (Buffy The Vampire Slayer, Dr. Horrible, The Guild). Well someone has to.
Chocophile:
Felicia Day
- Occupation:
- Actress, Filmmaker, Geek
- Web Site:
- feliciaday.com
Interrogation Begins:
- Milk, dark or white:
- Dark if it’s solo, milk if it’s in combo with other stuff.
- Favourite childhood chocolate:
- Hershey’s Kisses.
- Fruit or nut:
- Nut! Almond in particular!
- Crunchy or chewy:
- Crunchy! Chewy! Both!
- Your guilty chocolate pleasure:
- Reese’s Peanut Butter Cup Blizzards.
- Average chocolate consumption:
- I don’t weigh it! Maybe 5 mini-bars a week?
- Give or receive:
- Give! I love getting people weird chocolates, I once gave chocolate / bacon bars as wrap gifts.
- Least favourite chocolate:
- Anything with malt. And Three Musketeers.
The subject is clearly a true chocolate addict but appears to have acquired a level of self control in the stuffing-her-face department.
We were slightly concerned at her confession of eating five mini-bars of chocolate per week, but in post-questioning, the subject protested that she had meant “small bars of chocolate” rather than “hotel mini-bars stacked full of chocolate”.
We are not entirely convinced by this.
