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I think we might have chewed this one up before, but given that we came into a bar (thank you, Beth, thank you so much, and thank you Stephenie Meyer…) we’ll take another stab at it.
Here’s a bar that’s dark dark - as dark as the , um, breaking dawn? Whatever…
Seriously, dear reader, if you’ve [...]

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Heaven in a bar? here it is: cocoa, cinnamon, spices, chilies perfectly blended together. Short and sweet: perfect sweetness, creamy chocolate, complex character from cinnamon and chilies. These guys from Carlsbad, California make a damn good chocolate.
We picked this up in Wegman’s, where it was significantly higher in price than other bars, but I argue [...]

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This is helluva nice bar - great balance between the chili peppers and the intensely sweet cherries.
If you’ll recall, these guys from Boulder made an Almonds & Cherries bar we reviewed (and liked), so our first question is: are these Michigan cherries? Or they from somewhere else?
Never mind the cherries - it’s the smoky, [...]

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Strawberry and pepper? German dark chocolate? Sounded interesting.
Using Ecuadorian dark chocolate, this is a mildly bitter, dark, not overly sweet chocolate. Very smooth, full-flavored, bittersweet chocolate. We think while the pepper is just about right, the strawberry could stand to be a little more prominent. As it is, it has just a hint of strawberry [...]

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It’s dry; not a great mouthfeel. Tastes waxy or clumpy as it melts in your mouth. Basically, an average bar; nothing outstanding or noteworthy, which is a bit surprising to us über-consumers who sway towards Wegman’s and its ilk for above-average food.
Two-year-old hands it back and says “no, do you have another one?”
Four-year-old says “vanilla, [...]

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We’ve been a bit remiss lately - I know for a fact that there were at least three other chocolate bars lying around our high-tech chocolate FATLab (facility for analysis and testing laboratory), including a caramel-filled dark chocolate that was yummy… but that was two weeks ago, and these chocolate bars have a nasty habit [...]

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While hunting around our local Wal-Mart, I stumbled across these in a discount endcap. I realize the notion of a discount rack in Wal-Mart should raise some red flags, but given this item’s name, and that was a a buck or two (I can’t remember the price anymore), I decided it was worth investigating.
Worth purchasing? [...]

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