Monday's Question of the Day - February 13, 2017

Happy Valentine's Day Eve.  Discount chocolate is only 2 days away! 

Do you enjoy the boxed assorted chocolates?  There are various brands but around here Russel Stover still seems to be the most popular.  Whitmans, Hershey's and other companies have their versions.  

I enjoy them to an extent.  I don't care for like the orange or cherry cream kinds. But truffles and butter creams are good.  Whenever we get a box DH and I just eat it in order from least to most favorite.    This year instead I got DH 2 bags of Reeces Peanut Butter Cups.  He often gets me Lindt Lindor Truffles or Ferrero Rocher hazelnut chocolates for my birthday or mother's day.  But Valentine's day he might still get a nice boxed heart.  I don't mind either way.  I've been avoiding caffeine; including whats found in chocolate.  So I'm not sure if he's thought of something different or if I'll just have to savor whatever he found.  Whatever it was; it fit in his coat as he walked out the opposite door from me at Walmart yesterday.    I just told him what bag he wasn't allowed to look in! 

Ill take one.. i prefer nut ones or caramels.. but i REALLY love dipped fruit instead.. mmm pineapples strawberries etc.. lets see if he listened.. 

I enjoy cream centers waaaay too much, and still buy old-fashioned Violet, Lavender and Rose creams not and then.

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I admit to being a chocolate snob. I dislike the lower end brands. They taste overly sugary to me.  Plus I prefer dark chocolate anyway and most of the boxes are heavy on the milk chocolate.  Dislike all the mentioned brands - I can easily pass them up.  Last time there was boxed chocolate at home it lasted eons.

Caveat - I am not too proud for Halloween candy now and then, although the leftovers last a long time too. It can take months to finish off what the kids didn't grab.

sivyaleah said:

 
I admit to being a chocolate snob. I dislike the lower end brands. They taste overly sugary to me.  Plus I prefer dark chocolate anyway and most of the boxes are heavy on the milk chocolate.  Dislike all the mentioned brands - I can easily pass them up.  Last time there was boxed chocolate at home it lasted eons.

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Love boxed chocolates. My faves are chocolates with corners.

We have two candy stores and both make their own chocolates. I prefer one over the other. But I'm not really a chocolate snob, although I don't eat much in the way of the box of assorted chocolates, mainly because I'm too afraid of what I might end up with and I always forget to check the lid of the box to see what's what.. 

I ended up at the store today at the last minute for a V-Day card for Dear Richard....lately I've been doing that a lot and I don't know why. I did grab a bag of miniature Reese's PB cups for him. They're his favorites and I guess the Reese's commercials that I've been seeing on tv lately made me think of them.

"Those three little words: I Got Reese's!"   He'll be happy.  

My co-worker just gave me a little chocolate kitty!  Yum!

Pam, close to Penzeys there used to be a homemade chocolate shop when I first moved to CT. Even then it was delightfully old-fashioned and a relic from the past. The inside totally fascinated me. Long gone now.

OH...Moonstruck Chocolates!  Hand dipped bit of artisan goodness!  A wonderful friend sent me a smallish sampler box, and I fell in love.  They are pricey, but worth every penny!  AND I can order them online!  AND I love the box they come in!  I very carefully take my sharpie and block out everything but the design and the word "Moonstruck,"  line them with bits of satin or velvet, and keep small treasures in them.

The stores around her sell Russel Stover, Whitman's and Hershey's. I buy the soft centers of Russel Stover for myself every Christmas. Dark chocolate butter creams are my favorite. See's candy is my favorite but you can only buy it in Ca. Nev. etc. I was going to buy some online a few years but it cost $25.00 a pound. That's too rich for my blood. I see where Safeway has Russel Stover on sale tomorrow for $5.60 a pound so I may treat myself.

Muffy said:

The stores around her sell Russel Stover, Whitman's and Hershey's. I buy the soft centers of Russel Stover for myself every Christmas. Dark chocolate butter creams are my favorite. See's candy is my favorite but you can only buy it in Ca. Nev. etc. I was going to buy some online a few years but it cost $25.00 a pound. That's too rich for my blood. I see where Safeway has Russel Stover on sale tomorrow for $5.60 a pound so I may treat myself.

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"See's candies are also available in some airports in the United States. See's Candies operates over 200 stores in the following U.S. states: Arizona, California, Colorado, Hawaii, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Minnesota, New Mexico, Nevada, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Washington, and Wisconsin."

Going to Hebert's Candy Mansion brings back memories, always a special treat. White chocolate was a favorite.

I don't personally like the assortment variety.  I much prefer dark chocolate with a high % of cacao, e.g. Vosges, Ghiradelli Intense Dark.  

I already bought DH his favorite treat and hid it - Harry & David Dark Chocolate Moose Munch.  

Primula said:

"See's candies are also available in some airports in the United States. See's Candies operates over 200 stores in the following U.S. states: Arizona, California, Colorado, Hawaii, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Minnesota, New Mexico, Nevada, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Washington, and Wisconsin."

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Thanks Primula,

I live in the DC area and I didn't see it in your list of airports. 

At work we used to go together and order See's candy every Christmas. We would order over 100 pounds and get a good discount. They don't do that anymore. I wantsmome candy so bad now I can't stand it.

sivyaleah said:

 
I admit to being a chocolate snob. I dislike the lower end brands. They taste overly sugary to me.  

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I think once you taste the real high end chocolates; the others just aren't as good.    Unfortunately that doesn't stop me. 

I mentioned in another thread about chocolate that my mother had job coached someone either in a chocolate factory or store of some kind and they gave her 2 bulk bags of their chocolates.  You couldn't eat more than 2 or maybe 3 at a time.  They were so good.  I thought they were Godiva but I can't see where they are made in my area so I'm thinking it was someone else.  I do remember some were seashell shaped.  I'll have to ask if it was Guylain.  I don't see where they have ever been made in this area either.  Whatever they were; they were good.    

MoochNNoodles said:

 
I think once you taste the real high end chocolates; the others just aren't as good. 

  Unfortunately that doesn't stop me. 

I mentioned in another thread about chocolate that my mother had job coached someone either in a chocolate factory or store of some kind and they gave her 2 bulk bags of their chocolates.  You couldn't eat more than 2 or maybe 3 at a time.  They were so good.  I thought they were Godiva but I can't see where they are made in my area so I'm thinking it was someone else.  I do remember some were seashell shaped.  I'll have to ask if it was Guylain.  I don't see where they have ever been made in this area either.  Whatever they were; they were good.  

 

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Yes, Guylain and I approve   I love those seashells! 

I enjoy caramel or nut centers. Not so much the chocolate fudge.. it just is too hard to bite into. I am not really into the fruity centers. Coconut is ok. Zacharys imo has the best

boxed chocolates. But I do adore Russell Stovers as well.

No Thornton's fans here?

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If I weren't diabetic and overweight, I'd snatch up a sale box tomorrow or the next day. I like the cream centers and truffles the best. We have two specialty chocolate stores in my little town - Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory and Le Chocolat. Rocky Mountain chocolates are made, guess where, in Colorado and are delicious. Le Chocolat makes its own chocolates, and they are out of the world - both in taste and in price. One or two pieces are all I can buy, but each piece is three times the size of a Whitman's.

No Fannie Mae fans? They used to have stores in all the malls.

http://www.lechocolatdubouchard.com/

DreamerRose said:

 
No Fannie Mae fans? They used to have stores in all the malls.

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Fannie May was an outgrowth of Fanny Farmer, which began just about an hundred years ago, and about 30 miles from where I live now.  I'd almost forgotten them.  Thanks, Rose !

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