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Originally Posted by neoguy
Carolyn, thanks for the sweet suggestions  But, I don't see any chocolate on the list  |
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My dark bittersweet chocolate stash is to my right on the floor in a large box. I've been accessing it almost daily while the US Tennis Open has been on.
But I'm down one large bar of Scharfen Berger for the following amusing reason.
Last year Richard, my surgeon, told me that at the duty free shop on the Canadian border that he and his son come back through from fishing in Nova Scotia that they had some choco with 95% cacao and I didn't believe him.
But thanks to online tomato friends one good friend is Barkeater who just happens to work as a Customs Agent, which many folks already know b'c at least at GW he was always being asked about what's legal and what isn't, re border veggies, fruits and seeds,
so I emed Bark and asked him to look into it.
OK, he found these Lindt bars with 99% cacao and sent me down three bars.
I proudly presented one of those to Richard and I nibbled at the other one and just found the third one hidden away yesterday.
I have never in my life eaten such horrible chocolate.
Tasted like sour mud, toe punk,something that died in the fridge, I think you get the picture.
Of course I claimed being the winner b'c there was no 95%, just the 99% and of course the regular Lindt Excellence bars at a lower cacao content were also at the duty free shop.
So I thought I'd make up for it and took some thank you gifts to Richard and his PA Rich who did all the followup after I got home from rehab, and since Richard is one of the most aggressively competetive persons I've ever met I know how much he hates to lose any contest, any bet, and anything.
So I gave him my only large bar of Sharfen Berger, well I left it for him b'c he had a full schedule and his nurse said I'd have to wait two hours until he was through, and I didn't want to, so left so I could get back to town for Book Club.
So there's your chocolate story for the day.
But I still have:
Becolade from Belgium
Guittard
Merkens
Peters
Thank Heavens.
They were out of Valrhona which is one of my faves, so I'll have to reorder soon.