A Little Bit of Chocolate Does You Good: Lindt & Sprüngli Caramel & Fleur de Sel Noir

Dark chocolate with caramel & sea salt.

Sounds pretty good doesn't it?

Unfortunately someone else ate this bar of Swiss chocolate and I didn't get to try. 

Maybe next time.

Exotic Packaging: Lindt & Sprüngli Father Christmas

Merry Christmas everybody!

It's hard to get the silver paper off a chocolate Father Christmas without a little damage. But I always enjoy seeing the packaging flattened out. Even when I was small you'd find me smoothing out my sweetie wrappers.

And here is Father Christmas himself. He has a bell around his waist (just like the Lindt Easter bunny has a bell around his neck). And don't you think the design looks very different in 3D? I can't work out quite why, but he does look different.

A Little Bit of Chocolate Does You Good: Maestrani Bananasplit

Another chocolate choice from Geneva Airport.

I really didn't like this white chocolate.

Too sweet. Too weird. But a new flavour is always worth a try.

Exotic Packaging: chocolate sardines

I had this pinned to my notice board at work for several years but now I have a lot of important bits of paper I need to look at all the time (to remind me what I'm supposed to be doing) and this little fish has suffered. So I thought I would scan him for posterity.

Extremely senior volunteer taste tester (see my crisp blog) went to Portugal some years back and kindly brought us a tin of chocolate sardines. We didn't have the heart to tell him you could buy them in the UK.

I flattened out the silver wrapping because I liked the design so much. And here I have backed it with some pink wrapping from a Quality Street chocolate which seems to work quite well.

I don't even like fish but I do love this design.

A Little Bit of Chocolate Does You Good: Nestlé Quality Street

Our stationery supply company sent us a tin of Quality Street for Christmas.

The waft of Christmassy chocolatey goodness when we opened it for the first time was amazing.

Quality Street was launched in 1936 by Mackintosh's but of course Rowntree Mackintosh was bought by Nestle in 1988. There are 12 different varieties in the tin, so something for everyone.

The Quality Street brand was named after a play by J M Barrie who wrote Peter Pan.