How old am I again?

I got me an Easter egg. All mine! All mine!

green & blacks dark easter egg
dark chocolate egg

But I can’t remember when I last had one. So it’s a special treat.

It’s not easy to type with chocolate on your fingers, you know.

Posted by Sharon on 24 March 2005 at 6:11 pm in Food, Photos

6 comments on “How old am I again?”

  1. Helen says:

    Wish I’d bought myself that one. I got two cheap Cadburys eggs. Enjoyed the first one and felt sick with the second one.

    24th March 2005 at 6:42 pm
  2. Chris Williams says:

    This reminds me of one the principles of the now-defunct pressure group, Decadent Action:

    “4. Never, ever eat chocolate of less than 60% cocoa solids. Ackermans or Green and Blacks is what you should be eating. ”

    http://www.monoculartimes.co.uk/counterculture/decadentaction.shtml

    25th March 2005 at 1:36 am
  3. Jonathan Dresner says:

    Green&Black is frighteningly good chocolate: we had the flat version of that not long ago (and enjoyed it immensely)… mostly out of frustration that our local sources of their Maya Gold bar have dried up.

    If you can get hold of the Endangered Species Black Panther bar (82%), it’s fantastic (though their “Bat Bar” is a bit lower and has cocoa bits in it and is more fun if you’re not an extreme chocolatist), and the Belgian Chocolove Super Dark (77%) is the best bang for your buck (no idea how to translate that into pounds shilling, sorry) you’ll find anywhere (strong, sweet, crisp, smooth… it’s kind of what my mouth compares the rest of them to).

    But the Cadbury Caramel egg is still the gold standard for nutritionally empty gross excess. And that’s Easter.

    27th March 2005 at 10:42 am
  4. Sharon says:

    Cadburys is far too sweet for my taste buds. However, at the other extreme, how about Michel Cluizel 99%? Far too bitter for me (and most human beings, I’d imagine), but one of these days I might get round to using that bar to make mole, Mexican chocolate-chilli sauce which is awesome with chicken.

    In fact, since I’m having chicken wings tonight (and I’m making real stock this afternoon), I may have a look round for recipes…

    27th March 2005 at 11:04 am
  5. Jonathan Dresner says:

    My wife ordered hot chocolate in Japan once that came without added sugar: Unsweetened milk chocolate, if you can imagine. Needless to say, after a shocked sip, and a curious one by each of us, sugar was added. The darkest I’ve ever eaten was, I think, Lindt’s 87% bar, but it really was just on the verge of not terribly pleasant. The 82% Black Panther really is enough for me.

    I’m a sucker for mole sauce, too, but my wife isn’t, so I usually only order it in good mexican restaraunts — which we don’t have here.

    29th March 2005 at 11:18 am
  6. david tiley says:

    There’s Belgians down our road have just opened a chocolatier place.

    I am doomed.

    1st April 2005 at 4:10 pm