As I’ve mentioned before, over the last few years I’ve
developed a real liking of dark chocolate. It started out slowly, but now I
actually prefer it. Every once in a while, however, there’s that appeal
of milk chocolate. Milk chocolate is comfort food; it stirs up warm memories
and brings contentment.
Speaking of comfort food, for good or for bad — one of my
top comfort foods is bacon. It’s been a favorite since I was a kid. I remember
we would buy it, cut from the slab at the local butcher shop. The taste was
terrific. And so a great food love was born and has continued.
So what if someone combined my favorite foods together?
That’s just what Chuao Chocolatier (chuaochocolatier.com)
has done. When the 2.8-ounce chocolate bar arrived in the office recently, I
broke off a sample and left the rest for my colleagues. After three or four days of
being polite, all bets were off and I squirreled away the bar in my desk
drawer.
As I said, the bar brings you chocolate and bacon together.
And, if that’s not enough, the company has added in a touch of maple syrup and
bonfire smoked sea salt. You get a whole fiesta of flavors — the smooth, rich
milk chocolate, bit of sweet and salty and then the great taste of crisp bacon.
It’s a wonderful food treat that I have been enjoying the past few days.
I could see this chocolate bar in a variety of gift baskets
—chocolate, of course, breakfast and housewarming or hostess gift come to mind. And, with the
holidays coming up, it would be a fun stocking stuffer for a favorite gourmet.
Barbara
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