This is a very simple bleg, but one that I hope - if it’s going to expand our collective waistline - will be enjoyable. On Easter Sunday, my college MCR is holding an Easter chocolate sampling, board games and port session (it’s Oxford, forgive us our nerdish tendencies).
Among other things, various people are in charge of various things, and I’m minister in charge of chocolate. Now don’t get me wrong, I like chocolate, but I’m rather at a loss as to what sort of Easter chocs to purchase. As a kid - and even as I got older - me and the sibs tended to get the fairly typical thin-shelled Easter eggs and bunny rabbits, which I think most people acknowledge are fairly average as chocolates go.
It’s late here, and I’ve given myself a day and evening off from the study, and now have to hit the hay… but when I surface some time tomorrow, I’m hoping there’ll be a bunch of chocolate recommendations, viz: who makes the best Easter eggs?
19 Comments
I don’t mean to get all Freudian here Skeptic but that illustration looks a bit flaccid, um phallic.
Eeeergh - it’s a piece of clip art from Photoshop - which I resized but nothing else. So blame adobe
I’m serious about my chocolate bleg, though - otherwise everyone’s going to get awfully sick of Cadbury easter eggs by the end of the afternoon. There’s about 3 aisles of different chocolates at the local Sainsbury’s (at the moment there’s more chocolate than pet food, v. impressive). I’m assuming the various Belgian chocolates will be good but really have no idea - the only ‘fancy’ stuff I’m familiar with is Lindt, which I’ve always found overpoweringly sweet.
S’okay Skeptic. Takes a guy to notice these things. We’re, ahem, a little distracted by ‘em from time to time.
Speak for yourself Adrien.
Get a mixture of chocolates. Belgium, Swiss and Cadbury. They have different textures. Swiss and Belgium are finer while cadbury is chunky (also called colonial style). Also get a mixture of the chocolate types - white chocolate is almost just condensed milk (very yum, my fav.), milk chocolate, and then the dark chocolate (this has no milk in it at all - good for lactose intolerant types). For the hippies and other freaks try get some soy-chocolate (totally disgusting). Finally, for the end, get some alcoholic chocolates.
SL,
If the regular milk chocolate is too sweet, look for the bittersweet varieties - or the higher cocoa content. I like the 70% Lindt Excellence ones, but find the 85% a bit too serious.
This may give you some ideas - but probably best to give the last one a miss.
Must be high in cocoa - Belgian or Swiss
test?
or ginger dipped in carob
Belgian and Swiss are good. You probably can get many brilliant brands unavailable in the Backabourke Coop and Takeaway.
Consider a CHILI chocolate for a bit of spice, Lindt do a very mild bar of this.
You might also consider throwing a New Zealand Whittakers into the mix as a counterweight for Cadburys.
I generally get a Darrel Lea chocolate bilby for my wife; but wouldn’t touch the stuff if it were not such a cute animal. This year Lindt are advertising white dark and milk bunnies….
This is terrific - and has given me a bunch of things I hadn’t even considered - especially on the lactose intolerant front. We don’t have any vegans, but quite a few people from the Caribbean are lactose intolerant. I know when I introduced the Common Room to the concept of tim-tams and port (the two go together very well), there were a few mournful faces from Trinidadians and Bajans, who couldn’t have any.
What if you throw them on the ground and watch them scramble for the goodies? With your camera in hand!
After a port or two that is. When I was in Lincoln College in Adelaide the senior common room installed some reclining chairs and the Warden was taken aback one evening when he was invited in after dinner to find a room of recumbent bodies, port in hand.
Good lord, that image looks like a mandrill’s instruments
Don’t forget the half-filled rocky road eggs… and rum & raisin chocolate goes nicely with port.
Last year my son got a ‘flat pack easter egg’ - a fun ‘plain brown’ wrapper on a bar of good chocolate.
http://www.chocablog.com/reviews/green-blacks-dark-70-easter-egg/
If you’re really lucky Skeptic, you might be able to find an “Easter Sampler”, which is a collection of all different types of chocolates from a few different brands, and big enough to enjoy a couple of bites and see what you like. Very tasty. They cost around AUS$40, but they’re well worth it, considering there’s 100 chocolates in each. My mouth’s watering just thinking about it!
SkepticLawyer:
Hey. Where’s the debriefing - the after-action report? Davay! Davay!
We ate and drank lots and provided increasingly weird answers during - among other board games - trivial pursuit.
Long may Whitman’s samplers rule & reign.
SkepticLawyer:
Thanks. Concur on Whitman’s. Sounded like good fun.