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I'm glad this thread seems to have bounced fluffy, but can I just say that I am extremely excited about this new magazine?
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quote:Originally posted by Treason: White chocolate shouldn't even qualify as chocolate.
Someone named Treason WOULD make ridiculous statements like that.
White chocolate is simply chocolate that has been purified of its sins and ascended to a higher plane. O:)
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I wise and wonderful friend, from Hatrack actually, told me that dark chocolate is high in iron Posts: 772 | Registered: Feb 2005
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quote: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I've just discovered dark chocolate M&Ms. I am a happy woman. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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The problem with many chocolate covered pretzels is that the chocolate that covers them often isn't of very good quality.
The solution is to dip pretzels in Nutella. This way one can also control the chocoalate-to-pretzel ratio.
What I have yet to do, however, is to find some really good peanut butter-filled pretzel nuggets to dip in Nutella.
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Rivka, chocolate is supposed to be sinful, which is why dark chocolate is the best kind. I like mine about 70% sinful.
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Megan, the solution to your problem is to buy them in bulk when you find them and store them in the freezer.
According to the M&Ms website, they're back for a limited time-- through early November-- and are available at Kroger, Target, and Evil Store of Evilness-- excuse me, Wal-Mart. Or, you can shop the M&M store online.Posts: 21182 | Registered: Sep 2004
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See, now I'm going to have to go out and buy some chocolate, melt it, and coat some Ruffles in it (I like Lays, but I doubt they'd hold up to chocolate-coating.)
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I've dipped strawberries and pretzels before, it wouldn't be hard. I just don't have the raw materials.
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I go through chocolate rather fast when I'm pregnant.
Don't even talk about chips, if they come in the house they're gone within 36 hours at the very most.
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Valrhona chocolate is the best-and if we take "salty" to mean "has salt in it" then chocolate totally applies!
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Dark chocolate is the best, the more bitter the better. 80% dark is great!
I don't like chocolate covered salty things because I don't like the mixing of flavors. It's just wrong!
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OOh, I love popcorn with chocolate! When we go to the movies I buy popcorn and snowcaps then dump the snowcaps in the popcorn bag. Yum!
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quote: But there is a problem with Mr. Card complaining about this, because you need to be willing to take what you dish out, or else stop dishing out what you wouldn't want to take. OSC writes articles in published papers and "reviews everything" on his website, and in doing so severely criticizes a whole array of people, even in areas that he is not really an expert.
I gotta be honest, I've read pretty much all of OSC's articles, and I don't think I ever recall him referring to the Rhino Times as "Eye-Crushingly ugly" right there in their own newspaper.
"Mister, there's two kinds of dumb: A guy that takes of his clothes and rolls naked in the snow, and a guy that does the same thing in my living room. The first one don't matter, but the second one you're kinda forced to deal with. " -Hoosiers
I don't run down to SEAL beach and tell them that those ancient kapoks make them look stupid or that spitting in their face masks before putting them on is nasty, because i very well might have no idea why they do those things.
I have personally witnessed occasion after occasion when OSC has taken far more than he's ever "dished out" from sources at whom he'd never "dished out" anything, and handled it with grace and a laugh (including from odouls, who was quite a @*&%!! at 16, and if any better, is only slightly better now, years later). If Mt. OSC erupts, it's because there has been a lot of repeated seismic events that came together to cause it. And not neccessarily all of those events were recorded and made public, but they are there nonetheless.
But really, what would I know? It's an area in which I'm not an "expert". I just consider him a friend, and I KNOW that he doesn't go off shooting at ghost turds.
quote: But really, what would I know? It's an area in which I'm not an "expert".
When I re-read this, it read more bitingly sarcastic than I meant it. To me, anyway. I don't retract it, but for the record, there is no bile contained herein Maybe a smilie in the original would've helped. Oh well.
"...and that insufferable Dog. Oh, you're right here aren't you? Oh well, I stand by it." -Stewie Griffin
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For the record, I am strongly of the opinion that Tom's following here is wholely without merit. Throughout all my many years of reading and occasionally posting on these forums I have consistently seen in Tom a vein running deeply through his core so full of ego and antagonism that if it were gold he could mine it for centuries and it would never peter out.
John Hansen
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OK, getting back on topic here--plain potato chips are best. Anyone on Hatrack live in the Utz region? Utz plain potato chips are really the best. (OK, compared to Lays or other similar brands--they aren't kettle chips or anything like that, but if you are looking for a basic old unfancy potato chip Utz is the best--less greasy/salty than many of the big brands.)
For those of you who don't know what I'm talking about, I think Utz are made in Pennsylvania and they're available in the mid-Atlantic region. Since I no longer live there, I don't know if they still run the same ads, but they used to have a really funny radio ad campaign where they would take samples of their products to, say, San Antonio and interview people who tried them and then laugh and say "Sorry! You can't buy them here!"
As for pretzels--the only way they are enoyable is when covered in chocolate or mixed in some kind of snack mix.
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John, you make me very sad. Was that your intent? If not, what was your intent? If you'd rather answer through email, to avoid intruding on the potato chip discussions, I'm okay with that.
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Wow. John... I'm sorry, but that kind of statement only reflects badly on you. I mean, not that I have not been so mad at Tom sometimes that I could spit, but... Wow. That doesn't sound like you at all.
You know, sliced pita with a nice hummus dip sounds so good right now...
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kq, I don't know if it's available in the US, but last time I was in Europe ('00) there were serveral different types of Nutella available -- so besides hazelnuts, I definitely remember there being an almond variety.
(Hmm. But, depending on how allergic to hazelnuts you are... the almond variety would probably be processed using the same equipment as the hazelnut variety, and there could be trace contamination...)
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Icky, please don't rag on John. I know you never got a chance to see him around in the old days, but believe me, he's a good guy. I'm sorry that being here is no longer enjoyable for him; I remember him very fondly, and still hope that someday he'll choose to invest in this place again.
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I didn't see him in the "A long long time ago!" old days, but he was around when I joined. But yeah, I know many people remember him fondly from before that time.
But anyway . . . I won't say anymore. I didn't want to say as much as I did. It violates a resolution I had made to myself. Posts: 289 | Registered: Apr 2005
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