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Foreign Grocery Friday: Ohio's Peanut Buttery Buckeyes

November 11, 2011 at 1:43 PM | by | Comments (2)

When we travel, one of our favorite things to do is to pop into a local grocery store and check out the food products and candies we'd never find anywhere else. So we're trying out this new feature, Foreign Grocery Friday, where each week we'll feature some of our (and your) favorite overseas treats. Got a recommendation? Let us know!

Buying off-brand Peanut Butter Cups is risky. Oftentimes they just aren't as yummy as Reese's and, even worse, they could come in a holiday tin with a Currier & Ives scene printed on the top. Yuck. That's why it's high time to share a secret indulgence of our own which can only be gotten in parts of Ohio.

The peanut butter and chocolate treats are Buckeyes, shaped like the actual nuts they're named for, but tasting so much better. Their existence is a school- and state-spirit thing, and you'll find them in Columbus to honor OSU, and Toledo, because that's nearest where they're made (in Perrysburg, Ohio). Both cities are usually passed through on road trips, but we advocate taking an hour to detour and find Buckeyes.

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Plenty of Chocolate Returns to Chicago's Field Museum for a Fall Run

October 10, 2011 at 8:50 PM | by | Comments (0)

Chocolate is returning to where it all began, and we’re not talking about Hershey, Pennsylvania. The museum exhibit “Chocolate: Around the World” is returning to Chicago—that’s where it started—just in time for the holidays. It’s been at like 22 other spots around the country and its even heading overseas next year, so now you’re chance to discover what’s really behind that chocolate chip or truffle.

The tasty fun is back at the Field Museum, and it’ll be there until January 8. Different passes get you different access to the museum, but if you pony up one the Discovery or All-Access passes you should be able to check things out between like $20 and $30 per adult. This will also get you into most everything else the museum offers just in case you can't handle any more sugar.

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One Reason Bachelorettes Might Want to Hit Up Bruges

Where: Bruges, Belgium
August 31, 2011 at 4:11 PM | by | Comments (0)


Belgium: the dull country, right? All gloomy grey skies and dreary towns, a country so boring they had to make chocolate and beer to keep the inhabitants from self-immolating?

Well, Belgium sees your derision and raises you… chocolate genitalia. In three flavors.

Yup, so dulled were our senses by every other shop in Bruges being a chocolate shop, that it took a few seconds to realise what we were staring at here. But lo, it has just about every primary and secondary sex organ that a bachelor/ette partier would need. And we're sure we want to know what "zachte tietjes" translate as.

If only we’d had the foresight to buy these for our Vegas trip this week.

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Your Essential Kit for Buying Chocolate in Belgium: A Cool Bag

Where: Bruges, Belgium
August 29, 2011 at 4:51 PM | by | Comments (0)

In Bruges, you want to eat chocolate, of course. And, back from Bruges, you want to carry on eating chocolate. Just one problem: as you’re hauling it back across continents and timezones, you don’t want it to melt, because melted chocolate is gross, wasted chocolate.

Which is why, when you make your rounds of the genius chocolatiers of Bruges, every time you buy, you’ll be offered a cool bag, too. In weather similar to that at the moment—the low 70s—all you need to do is put your chocs in the bag. If it gets hotter (and trust us, there’s no chance of that at the moment), just throwing in a cold can of drink will be enough to cool it for the journey home.

There is a catch, of course; you have to pay for the bags, with most shops selling them for between 1 and 2 euros. But, having seen our boxes emerge unscathed from six hours in our sweaty suitcase, we can vouch for them being more than worth it.

And Belgian chocolate really does live up to its reputation. That we can also vouch for.

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Virgin Atlantic Knows What's Good for Their Passengers: POPSICLES.

August 22, 2011 at 11:30 AM | by | Comment (1)

It's official; summer 2011 is the summer of sweets in the sky. First bmi is handing out free slices of cake onboard, and now Virgin Atlantic has introduced popsicles in economy!

The new desserts—Skinny Cow Skinny Dippers—are caramel ice cream pops dipped in chocolate, and they're totally complimentary to passengers flying Virgin from Manchester, London-Gatwick and London-Heathrow to the US, Caribbean and Tokyo-Narita. Even better still: each Skinny Dipper is only 65 calories (that's less than a tiny airline cup full of regular soda). They're new onboard from this month, and they should last through the end of the warm weather.

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Can You Believe This is Airport Food?

Where: Amsterdam-Schiphol Airport, Amsterdam, Netherlands
August 15, 2011 at 5:07 PM | by | Comments (2)

Okay, okay. So we just finished spreading the gospel of Amsterdam-Schiphol Airport, but we're kinda not done since we didn't say anything about the food. Oh, THE FOOD!

Instead of giving you a huge gallery and making you drool on a Monday evening when you're likely nowhere near the international departures area at AMS, here are just a few tidbits to give you an idea—hints to get your appetite going on a day you're traveling through Schiphol. Here's the biggest tip: save your tummy for some good stuff; skipping breakfast or another meal is fine if you're on your way to this airport.

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Foreign Grocery Friday: Freaky Deaky Dutch 'Hagelslag' Sprinkles

August 12, 2011 at 10:42 AM | by | Comments (2)

When we travel, one of our favorite things to do is to pop into a local grocery store and check out the food products and candies we'd never find anywhere else. So we're trying out this new feature, Foreign Grocery Friday, where each week we'll feature some of our (and your) favorite overseas treats. Got a recommendation? Let us know!

Two words: CHOCOLATE SPRINKLES. They aren't just for kids anymore, and in fact, never really were since the Dutch adopted them as an alternative to Nutella. That's right; for breakfast (and sometimes lunch), millions of Dutch are sitting down to a helping of Hagelslag, or chocolate sprinkles covering a buttered piece of toast.

Hagelslag has a long history in Holland, as sprinkles are even used on little toast rounds to celebrate the birth of a baby (so much for chocolate cigars). The most traditional flavors are anise, milk chocolate or dark chocolate, although vanilla and fruit are also popular.

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Foreign Grocery Friday: Norway's Beloved 'Kvikk Lunsj' Candy Bar

Where: Bergen, Norway
July 29, 2011 at 9:01 AM | by | Comment (1)

When we travel, one of our favorite things to do is to pop into a local grocery store and check out the food products and candies we'd never find anywhere else. So we're trying out this new feature, Foreign Grocery Friday, where each week we'll feature some of our (and your) favorite overseas treats. Got a recommendation? Let us know!

Where do we even start in pronouncing "Kvikk Lunsj," the popular Norwegian chocolate treat, let alone describe its taste? Well, once you know it translates to "Quick Lunch," the consonant-rich words don't seem as intimidating. In looks and flavor, Kvikk Lunsj's closest cousin is the KitKat Bar, and indeed KitKats beat the launch of Kvikk Lunsj by two years, having debuted in 1935.

Still, Kvikk Lunsj has the sporty image KitKat never will; Norwegians associate its bright packaging with outdoorsy activities, and the commercials and motto—"Tursjokoladen," trekking chocolate—support it. Each bar even features the portrait of a famous Norge outdoorsman. We got Kjell "Stakan" Staxrud, who, judging from an itty-bitty illustration, looks to be a cross-country skiier.

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How $20 Can Turn You into a Flight Attendant's Favorite Passenger

July 6, 2011 at 9:00 AM | by | Comment (1)

Almost six months ago, we shared with you one of our best little travel tips: to bribe flight attendants with chocolate, specifically a box of Vosges Exotic Bars because they're individually wrapped and varied. Well, we've got an important update! If you're short on time or can't find a Vosges, FAs seems to love the Ferrero Collection box just as much.

It happened to us recently that we were running for a long-haul flight and desperate for some of the special treatment that usually comes with giving a gift, and we laid down $19.99 for this box and guess what? It was a massive hit with the crew.

If you're still curious about how and why chocolate makes the in-flight experience better when you're not even the one eating it, here's our original case for it:

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Foreign Grocery Friday: The Pink Cuberdons of Ghent

Where: Ghent, Belgium
June 10, 2011 at 3:12 PM | by | Comments (0)

When we travel, one of our favorite things to do is to pop into a local grocery store and check out the food products and candies we'd never find anywhere else. So we're trying out this new feature, Foreign Grocery Friday, where each week we'll feature some of our (and your) favorite overseas treats. Got a recommendation? Let us know!

When you think about Belgium, what food comes to mind? Odds are chocolate, right? Well, that's totally fine because duh—Belgium is huge in the edible ecstasy department, but don't rule out all the other lovely candies that color the rainbow, like the delicious bites called Cuberdons. These conical treats, also called "mini noses" and "priest hats," are specially slow-cooked to create a gooey interior, with a harder shell.

The taste: Mmmm raspberry. Yep, Cuberdons are raspberry-hued as well as raspberry-flavored. There's none of that dicey white chocolate flavor that comes with many raspberry sweets; these are 100% concentrated fruity scrumptiousness. Eat them whole, though, or risk getting the goopey center all over your fingertips...which you will then be tempted to lick clean in public. Ah yes—and there are many other flavors to sample, but raspberry is the recognized classic.

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Book It to Balboa Island for Its Namesake Balboa Bar

May 20, 2011 at 12:34 PM | by | Comments (0)

If you plan to travel through Newport Beach in Orange County, you have to stop in Balboa Island. While many tourists visit the man-made island to shop the store-lined streets, the reason to go is for the frozen treats. The Balboa bars and frozen bananas are the sugary desserts of choice on the island.

The to-die-for Balboa bar, our favorite over the frozen banana, is a rectangle brick of vanilla ice cream that's dunked in hot chocolate and then rolled in your choice of toppings. The frozen banana—something with which Arrested Development fans are familiar, but alas, there's no banana-shaped stand—is your choice of a small or big fruit that's also dipped in chocolate and then coated with toppings.

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'Ace of Cakes' Chef Duff Hits the West Coast with an LA Bakery Opening June 1

May 6, 2011 at 12:02 PM | by | Comments (0)

Fans who are mourning the loss of Ace of Cakes, the recently canceled Food Network show, can have their cake and eat it, too. Not only does Duff Goldman, head pastry chef and owner of Charm City Cakes, have three new TV shows in the works, but he also will open a new bakery in Los Angeles.

That's right; foodies who want to taste the massive cakes that are more like edible works of art no longer will have to trek to Baltimore. You'll be able to get a bona fide Charm City Cake in Santa Monica.

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