Happy Valentine's Day!

fightinfilipino

Grey Ghost wrote:

fightinfilipino wrote:

isn't the worldwide cocoa plant supply on the verge of collapse? like, total exhaustion from too much demand?

Many died in the Chocolate Wars of the 2010s

no really! i distinctly remember seeing a news piece looking at worldwide cocoa supplies versus worldwide chocolate demand and concluding that demand is outstripping supply by a lot.

lostwords

So you're saying start stockpiling chocolates? Waaaay ahead of you

PiptheFair

Lost Salient wrote:

I am willing to do unspeakable things to get a Cadbury Egg.

They do not sell them here at all.

eh girl *snaps suspenders*

Maximum

fightinfilipino wrote:

Grey Ghost wrote:

fightinfilipino wrote:

isn't the worldwide cocoa plant supply on the verge of collapse? like, total exhaustion from too much demand?

Many died in the Chocolate Wars of the 2010s

no really! i distinctly remember seeing a news piece looking at worldwide cocoa supplies versus worldwide chocolate demand and concluding that demand is outstripping supply by a lot.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/02/13/chocolate-shortage_n_1273795.html

Thanks a lot global warming

Taya

If chocolate disappeared forever, it would kind of suck, but I think we'd probably survive.

bowtiedseal

and the conditions in which chocolate is harvested in a lot of places are really abhorrent (what a poorly constructed sentence). whenever I remember this I tell myself I'm only going to buy chocolate that is fairly sourced but freaking cadbury eggs are tripping me up at the moment. I didn't buy any today! (because they didn't have any!)

fightinfilipino

Taya wrote:

If chocolate disappeared forever, it would kind of suck, but I think we'd probably survive.

i would not.

i'm pretty sure i would leave this planet if chocolate disappeared. maybe explore the stars for other chocolate-rich planets.

mensch-o-matic

wed find some kind of cocoa substitute or genetically engineer a similar plant i guess

inthistwilight

Lost Salient wrote:

I am willing to do unspeakable things to get a Cadbury Egg.

They do not sell them here at all.

I can't even imagine having an Easter without one. But I will admit that I'm jealous of those in the UK because they have access to those Creme Egg Twisted bars which just sound fantastic. But also, the UK and Canada get Cadbury McFlurry's?! Jealous.

Taya

I had a Creme Egg McFlurry once and it was crazy good. I don't know if they still exist though.

I had some of these the other day:

inthistwilight

What the heck? Those look crazy good. Seriously, the US needs to start making deals with the UK to bring over their awesome snacks.
Or I just need to finally get a real passport and haul my ass to the UK.

Ferquin

Taya wrote:

I had a Creme Egg McFlurry once and it was crazy good. I don't know if they still exist though.

I had some of these the other day:

I realize that it's an illustration (as in a hand-drawn picture), but the way it depicts the snack cake is the yellow part actually looks like runny egg yolk. Gooey, runny egg yolk in the middle of fondant creme and choclate-covered brownie. Even the big yellow splash behind the logo reminds me of splattered egg yolk.

I imagine that they basically took the same yellow and white fondant creme they put in the regular Cadbury eggs and injected it in the middle of a brownie snack cake, right? Well, that illustration certainly doesn't represent what the yellow and white fondant creme actually looks like.

Beasteh

i just ate a bunch of galaxy cake bars

like 10

Taya

The illustration didn't turn me off from buying them.

Ferquin

I suppose it's moot since I don't think they even sell these here. I'm assuming you're in Canada because of all the French text on the box?

Ima go buy some Cadbury eggs now.

inthistwilight

Was anyone else surprised by the all chocolate Cadbury eggs? Or have I just been blind for a few years?
You know what I do miss? The cookies and cream Cadbury eggs that they had shortly like 15 years ago.

Taya

Ferquin wrote:

I suppose it's moot since I don't think they even sell these here. I'm assuming you're in Canada because of all the French text on the box?

Ima go buy some Cadbury eggs now.

Yes. The box said "Release the Goo!" on it. The French said something like "liberer le fondant" and I don't know French but I imagine it means "Liberate the Fondant!" Which struck me as funny for some reason; I'm not sure why.

Veldrin

Taya wrote:

I had a Creme Egg McFlurry once and it was crazy good. I don't know if they still exist though.

I had some of these the other day:

We've had a huge influx of Creme Egg Twisted bars here over the past year.



I've ended up completely banning myself from them because gosh dang I can't stop with just one.

Taya

Ferquin

Taya wrote:

Yes. The box said "Release the Goo!" on it. The French said something like "liberer le fondant" and I don't know French but I imagine it means "Liberate the Fondant!" Which struck me as funny for some reason; I'm not sure why.

Hee hee. I like that, "Release the Goo."

Eh, oh well. I'm not a brownie type of guy. Still looks like a big gooey egg yolk on the box to me. I'll just stick with regular Cadbury eggs.

Garlic Bread

Cadbury Eggs always seem like an awesome idea and then I eat one and go "that was a horrible idea"

Garlic Bread

(I just ate half of a small angel food cake)

mensch-o-matic

Keith wrote:

Cadbury Eggs always seem like an awesome idea and then I eat one and go "that was a horrible idea"

its like setting off a bomb in your mouth

every egg you eat has to rip a year out of the lifetime of your teeth it has to

bowtiedseal

mensch-o-matic wrote:

Keith wrote:

Cadbury Eggs always seem like an awesome idea and then I eat one and go "that was a horrible idea"

its like setting off a bomb in your mouth

every egg you eat has to rip a year out of the lifetime of your teeth it has to

apparently my teeth are in excellent health. I find this amazing considering how many cadbury eggs i've inflicted on them over the years.

inthistwilight

Thanks everyone. I now have a craving to eat a Cadbury Creme Egg.

cooljammer00

America has pretty good dark chocolate, guys.

But yeah, remember when Hershey's was making kisses without real chocolate in them?

TheySlashThem

hershey's is so big that the town it was founded in changed its name to hersheys

that's a thing

Baroque And Roll

Veldrin wrote:

Taya wrote:

I had a Creme Egg McFlurry once and it was crazy good. I don't know if they still exist though.

I had some of these the other day:

We've had a huge influx of Creme Egg Twisted bars here over the past year.



I've ended up completely banning myself from them because gosh dang I can't stop with just one.

MY GOD I WOULD EAT THIS FOREVER

Garlic Bread

ThatDudeOverThere wrote:

hershey's is so big that the town it was founded in changed its name to hersheys

that's a thing

in 70 years it will be the United States of Hershey

every house will be made out of chocolate

it will be like Willy Wonka's Chocolate Factory but everywhere

Blake T

I'm with Keith.

Cream eggs really do not taste very good.

Edcrab

Solar wrote:

Liiya wrote:

Thats not fair at all!

I wonder what it would be like to have a Valentine's Day with out work. I got a lot of guys on the day express how they were cross how they "had to buy something". No need to take it out on me.

Maybe those dudes would be less cross if they a) didn't buy it on the day

and b) weren't jerks about the whole thing

I mean I dunno but I am just saying

Look, have some sympathy for those poor tortured chaps forced by a decadent society into buying something nice for a loved one