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### Jim's Corner ###
Hi All,
Firstly I have to start off by saying thank you for all the kind words you have all sent me through your e-mails, comment and tweets this past in regards to my 1000th post. I hope you have all entered the competition (See HERE if you haven't).
Please remember that there is a special prize for the person who can supply me with the evidence that they have gone above and beyond to help spread the word about the competition.
Last week I said that I would be giving you all feedback on your suggestions of how to improve the site. I have decided that since these are all still coming in with the competition entries I will leave my responses a while longer. I have loved some the ideas so far - please keep them coming, I am reading each and every one.
In a bid to keep this short and snappy - enjoy your long May bank holiday weekends! Coming soon (in the next week or so!!) we have reviews of the Ritter Sport summer variants, Hotel Chocolat's summer range and Heavenly Cakes making their first ChocolateMission appearance. Surely there will be some decent stuff in there!
JIM
News from the chocolate market
* McVitie's have just announced the launch of these Medley bars. They sound nice - See HERE
* Chilli and chocolate flavoured meatballs anyone? - See HERE
* I announced the launch of these Cherry flavoured Cadbury Mini Rolls a few weeks ago, but here are some more details - See HERE
* Oh no ... chocolate now isn't good for us :D - See HERE
* With the UK election race hotting up the Lib Dems have gone as far as trying to sweeten voters with their own 33% cocoa chocolate ... no surprise that it wasn't produced by Kraft - See HERE
Posts from other blogs I enjoyed this week
* GiGi Reviews - Last week Gi went in to writing over drive chronicling her adventures at the Ben & Jerry's factory in Vermont! These are seriously worth reading if you love their ice cream - See HERE
* The Impulsive Buy - We think our UK election is the hottest voting race going!? Nuh-uh! Not according to Marvo. Check out his reviews of the latest Mountain Dew - Dewmocracy flavours - See HERE
* Japense Snack Reviews - It has been a week of Japanese snacks here on ChocolateMission, but these guys do it for a living. Check out their Lotte Crunky Biscuit review - See HERE
* CandyBlog - Cybele posted her reviews of the new Ritter Sport Spring flavours. She was similarly disappointed by the Vanilla flavour - See HERE
* Foodstufffinds - Seemingly not a week goes by that Cin doesn't manage to come across a new product that I want to try. This week its these new flamed steak flavoured Kettle Chips - See HERE
Updated Reviews of old
New photos have been added to some of my old Twix reviews - take a look! Special thanks to ChocolateMission reader Alan for the Polish Twix Dark!!
* Twix Dark (Polish & UK) - See HERE
* Twix - See HERE
Saturday, 1 May 2010
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The Twix pics looks lush jim nice work.
Jim who are heavenly cakes? I am confused. Do you make them?
Dx
It was another very enjoyable week of reading thank you. I don't believe their is an ounce of credibitlity in that story about chocolate making people depressed. It always makes me super happy :D
Rxxx
I just added you on facebook Jim. Do you use your page for anything special or is it just there? I will be 'liking' your status update about your competition in a minute :-)
The polish Dark Twix seems quite different our dark one doesn't it! lol glad it arrived in one pice though.
Did you know theyve updated the Twix wrapper/logo for the first time in about 30 years lol (it's now the same across the board ie in the US and here, with a new look, they were both different before!) heres the youtube ad in case no ones seen it lol I think its an update of one from last year - theyve left the old wrapper on the bar the guy eats then put the new one at the end lol
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SNm9Y0t9H1Y
those new biscuits sound nice. have you seen the new Cadbury ones, I think they fit in with the Caramel, Turkish and Crunchie and theyre called 'BrunchBakes' and based on the Brunch bars (the original old ones not the 'Snack' copy). Theyre pretty tasty!
Whilst your reviewing some of the Ritter Sport summer chocs can you make sure you cover the new Hotel Chocolat summer things please.
Sorry this is a bit random Jim but have you tried of the new walkers world cup flavours yet? You have to try the spag bol flavour it is wicked.
I look forward to seeing what these heavenly cakes are like. Doesn't sending cakes through the post sort of defeat the object of them being made fresh? lol oh well I am sure we will see.
The Twix look yummy.
Jim is posting a review of some of the heavenly cake stuff soon :). But as a sneak I got some through and its AMAZING! lol. Calorie bomb i think but oh so good lol.
Any review tomorrow Jim or taking a day off? If you have been eating the cakes from the above im not surprised if your needing to spend the day in the Gym haha!!
Those Heavenly cakes do look delicous, they do seem pretty expensive though, esp once you add the postage to it. It will be interesting to see how you rate them Jim. :)
Daisy - I think Heavenly cakes are new sponsors. Jim says in his update that he will be reviewing some of their cakes next week.
I can't believe this site is still going I would have thought you would have died of chocolate overload by now. Great work son.
Chocolate bad for us? What a load of b*****s :) There is no way chocolate can make anyone depressed it makes me soooooo happy lol.
Thanks for the love Jim!
Dying of Ritter envy over here. My local German import shop only seems to get the new flavors about 4 months after they are out. Great shop otherwise.
David
Thanks you are always so complimentary about my photos :D
Daisy
I don't no! All will be revealed on Tuesday :D
Rachel
Thanks Rachel I am glad you enjoyed reading.
Lu
I haven't done much with the facebook page yet. I will do though going forward so keep an eye on it.
Alan
Thanks again for sending that Twix along. You know I really enjoy trying out the different bars from the different regions.
Nice work on the wrappers front. I personally think that it looks better nowadays.
I haven't seen those new biscuits yet. If I do I will get a review up asap!
Golden
Like I wasn't going to review the new HC collection :D Come on! I photographed them all today chap!
Steven
I haven seen them in the shops but not bought any yet? Are there any you suggest?
Lauren
You will indeed see :D on Tuesday :D
Anon
Thanks
Matthew
Nope I posted a review today! Got a backlog of a months worth of reviews! Got to get them up sometime!
Alan
Inded they aren't cheap! Will they justify the price I wonder :D
Nick
Correct!
Colin
You haven't been around for awhile have you :D Stick around the mission is still rolling on :D
Sarah
I don't believe a word of it either.
Gigi
No thank you for posting such good posts!! Sorry to hear that about your German importers.
If it wasn't for Ritter sending them directly I would be in a bit of a mess since Dean-German-Grocery have just folded :(
Thanks everyone. Hope you had nice weekends.
JIM
It's funny, that Twix thing got me thinking. I wonder why Mars seems quite keen on standardising some products across the range (such as making our Marathons Snickers, Opal Fruits Starburst etc to fit in with the US) but then have things like the Milky Way/3 Musketeers and Mars bars which are similar bars with different names in both countries etc. Wouldn't it be simpler if they standardised those aswell! lol it probably will never happen but it just got me thinking.
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