Thursday, February 21, 2008

Or for $3.99 you can get a bag of Hershey's Miniatures

No sooner had I published this column on how press releases -- about the barbecue-flavor-infusing "SmokePistol," hand-cranked flashlights and fortified dog water -- were giving me fond thoughts of the summer to come, did I receive yet another one, from "Christopher Norman Chocolates." It was flogging their "fruity, summery, special summer chocolates," for those of us who like to throw caution to the wind and feel fruity and summery at the same time.

Their big fruity summer seller? Check it out:
BLUEBERRY - Blueberry mixed with a dark chocolate ganache, hand rolled into a ball and dusted with a dark purple sugar powder. Very dark, rich and blueberry.
This raises a few questions: 1) What the heck's a ganache? 2) Whose hands? 3) Does that dark purple sugar powder come with razor blades and a mirror? Because at these prices it better.

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