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Werther's Caramel Chocolates. Anyone tried them? For national brand name, grocery store shelf chocolates, these things are awesome. Incredibly creamy with just the right amount of caramelyness.

I think they're new, but maybe not. My grocery story was giving out samples - I went back for a second.

Ok, I just started drooling. Dammit.

We've had them in store for at least a year now, and I still haven't tried any. My clothing size also says I should not eat candy until I have cut down on the amount I eat a lot.


Maybe next month.


Also, this.

I'm not much for caramels, but I will say I've had a hard time finding a name-brand dark chocolate that isn't bitter or dry, until I discovered Hershey's Extra-Dark (not to be confused with their "Special Dark" brand.) Excellent stuff, and generally not hard to find in the bars (I've yet to see a pouch of individual squares.)

Dark chocolate for me. The Ferrero Rocher dark chocolate pieces are my crack.

Ray loves the Cadbury caramel eggs. I buy as much of the overstock of those after Easter.

A large bag of individual squares of Hersheys Extra Dark was spotted in Sam's Club.

Damn, no Sam's Club here where I live, just Costco. Nonetheless, I will be checking it out.

Wal-Mart is not yet getting the foothold here in the Pacific Northwest that it gets in the midwest and south. They've been trying to put in a store a few miles from us for years and the neighborhood keeps banding together to block them by various means. The nearest Wal-Mart to us is over 13 miles away, which might not seem far, but it's on the other side of the metro area, which would basically mean a trip from the west-side 'burbs through downtown all the way to the east-side burbs, or the better part of an hour to drive it.

We have no Sam's Club whatsoever. However, Costco is pretty much the same thing and you can't throw a rock without hitting one of those, so no one misses it.



Only 10? There's a one-square-mile patch of land down the highway from us where I have counted 6 Starbucks. Three drive-thru and stand-alone stores, two mini-Starbucks inside grocery stores, and the Starbucks inside a Barnes & Noble Booksellers. In a single square mile. According to the Starbucks website, there are 30 stores within a 4 mile radius of my zip code.

Edited, May 11th 2009 11:56pm by Ambrya

I'm not even trying to say anything about you here, this is all about me, right there is totally how I first read your post...

I did just suffer through a Hanson song though, so surely we know the real muses here.

Give 'em a few years though, they just may turn into bang-able chicks post-bloom.

My son-in-law makes me a Dark Chocolate Tort every year for my birthday, that I believe the FDA may classify as a level 5 drug.

First time Jonwin had some of this tort, he and a friend job about how it was illegal to sell on the street corners of Baltimore.

YUM!

I make hot fudge sauce, for gifts and what-not, that sounds like a similar recipe, I bring it up beyond boiling though (so, constant stirring) simply to be able to jar it up and insure it keeps it's smooth, thick creamy consistancy over time(the butter can separate out and it gets runny).