Saturday, 20 March 2010

March 20th: '7Days of Chocolate Reviews' - Edition 36

### Jim's Corner ###

Hi All,

The post today is a little rushed I am afraid as I heading off for a few days holiday.

For this reason I envisage I wont be able to answer any e-mails or posts until Thursday, but upon my arrival back into the country I will be sure to catch up with everything that has been sent my way. Despite me not being around there will be posts appearing on the site (wonders of technology eh!?), so you probably wont even notice my absence.

Sorry to keep things short this week, coming up in the next few days you will be seeing more Hotel Chocolat reviews, Cadbury Turkish Biscuits and some products sent my way all the way from Australia.

Have great weeks - catch up with you all soon.

JIM


**** COMPETITION WINNER ****

I had thousands (yes thousands!!) of entries for this latest competition, thanks to all who entered!

Congratulations to the winner of the Hotel Chocolat Easter Scrambled Egg winner .....

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....... Emily Hutchinson

I have sent your address to the guys at Hotel Chocolat who kindly sponsored this competition. Your prize is on the way.


Posts from other blogs I enjoyed this week:

* Foodstufffinds - Cin did an investigation looking at the change of recipe for Cadbury Mini Eggs - I added my own two cents on my own review in the form of an update - See HERE

* GiGiReviews - GiGi stuck it to the Girl Scouts with a review of their Dulce de Leche cookies - See HERE

* ImpulsiveBuy - I love peanut butter ... but I have never tried almond butter before! Sounds awesome - See HERE

* FoodetteReviews - This post by Jess gave me a real hankering for some pretzels. Why do we no get those big fresh ones here in the UK? See HERE

* Snackspot - People are seemingly already hunting down the new Magnum Gold - Magnum coated in Caramac white chocolate ... must have!! See HERE


** Updated Reviews **

Same old reviews but new pictures ...

Fry's Chocolate Cream - See HERE
Cadbury Double Decker - See HERE
Cadbury Chomp - See HERE
Cadbury Mini Eggs - See HERE
Daim Bar - See HERE

16 comments:

Gigi said...

Have a great time!

Thanks for the shout out.

David said...

I knew I wouldn't win :(

Rachel said...

Well done Emily. How many entrants were there?

Rxxx

Justin said...

Was there no chocolate news? Have a nice holiday.

Alan said...

Have a great hol Jim, judging by the weather outside I think we wish we were going away too lol!

I want to try those Magnums and the Caramac icecream itself mmm

Anonymous said...

Have a lovely holiday Jim.

Nick said...

I am looking forward to seeing more hotel chocolat reviews. Even if they do turn me green with envy.

Jess said...

Relax and have fun, and thanks for the mention! I'll send you a hot pretzel. :)

Kim said...

Happy holidays.

Justin said...

Nice new pictures Jim. Are you going to be updating anymore? It would be good to see more of the clssics get updated.

Daisy said...

Congrats Emily. I wish i hadwon :( :( i think i am only going to get a crappy smarties egg booooo

Dx

Lucy said...

Have a great holiday Jim.

lottie said...

Bon voyage dude. Hope you have a merry time!

emily13 said...

Just spotted that I won the egg - big thanks! Thanks everyone for the 'well done's' too :) I've never tried Hotel Chocolat choc so I'm very excited :) Thanks again!

Phil said...

Have a good holiday Jim :)

Re: almond butter, you can also get cashew nut butter but I forget where I saw it now.

Jim said...

All

Thanks for the nice holiday wishes ... it was err rainy :( oh well it was still nice to get away for a few days.

Now to answer the comments with specific questions ...

Justin - I will indeed be updating more photos. More coming this weekend even!

Rachel - There were over 6000 entries in the end! Madness huh!? Twitter is a powerful thing.

Sorry to be so blunt with my replies.

JIM

 

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