Nowadays you get braggart chocolate of the 70% pure cocoa variety. Needless prattle. Grind up the bean and put it in a Pixie Stix(tm). Now you've got 100% pure cocoa and no humbug. Bitter but invigorating.
-- Vance, Feb 07 2001

El Sabroso (trans: The Sabroso) http://www.bad-candy.com/sabroso/
Speaking of salted plums...(HEAVILY salted. The nutrition list says '398% rec. daily allowance of sodium) [StarChaser, Feb 07 2001, last modified Oct 04 2004]

Word of caution: don't ever try anything like this with icing sugar:

1) It's way finer ground than cocoa or pixie dust -- you'll choke to death.

2) When you do choke, it all comes out and makes a horrendous mess over everything.
-- Wes, Feb 07 2001


I'll keep that in mind.
-- Vance, Feb 07 2001


Zippy, the true chocolate lovers go for dark chocolate. This is just one step further toward perfection, if not perfection itself.
-- Vance, Feb 12 2001


Bitterness is the main idea. The flavor is supposed to be extreme!
-- Vance, Feb 14 2001


Vance, you need to send each of them a packet of salted plums for them to get the idea. I love the idea, You could market Coffee and Wasabi candies as well. Now they'd take off with the Asian Male Youth market.
-- UnaBubba, Feb 14 2001



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