Chocolate bar of the week:

Kit Kat Fine Dark. Yum yum.

More chocolate next week.

omg - i love dark chocolate.
i love kit kats.

sounds like a winner Jon.

one of the best chocs ever - orange chocolate after eights.

Presently scoffing Cadbury Fruit and Nut however I enjoy Green and Blacks chocolate ice cream more.

As far as ice-cream goes, I am a Ben & Jerry's Phish Food man myself.

This week's chocolate bar is Flake Dark (anyone notice a pattern emerging?).

Buffalo Toasted Twister - I might give it a go.

Flake Dark - I didnt know it existed - sounds gooood. Also am fond of Bounty dark. Yum.

Presently contemplating millionaire's slice or apple pie for afters. May plump for the pie with some custard.

Could applie pie with custard be pie of the week please?

I don't see a problem with that.

I see a problem: What exactly is applie pie? Wouldn't you rather an apple pie?

I have a reputation to maintain you know.

Whilst in France I found a chocolate aisle in the local supermarket.
Amongst ridiculous amount of posh looking chocolate I found a version of those Lindt bars. You know the ones that can show the %age on the front? They have 70% which is quite nice. 86% which starts to get rather bitter but certainly edible.

Then I saw it - 99% dark chocolate.

I bought it.

I brought it back to England.

And oh my god is it rank. It's like eating...oh I can't describe it. I'll still have some of it left the next time you guys come up so you can try it yourself.

I did have the most incredible Profiterolls out there - instead of cream in the middle they had icecream. And lots and lots of chocolate sauce. mmmm

oooh that reminds me of a particularly fine self saucing chocolate pudding i had once. It was perfection.

Isn't applie pie kinda like a crunchie bar?

i.e. a crunchie bar has crunch.
an applie pie has apple.

Good idea - so you're saying its a pie which is applie and a chocolate bar which is crunchie. Like it.

Actually, silly me, it was my idea in the first place and not a typo.. Goodo full marks to me.

These are the sorts of posts that you can be sure are impeccable in terms of both grammer and punctuation. I bet King read over it 3 or 4 times just to be sure there was no possibility of a reposte. ;o)

hmmm actually I reckon that he would have spotted the problem immediately but would have taken a long time draughting his response!

Yes...I read it...there was no sort of automatic spell checker involved whatsoever...really.

I did wonder if you meant a pie that tasted vaguely of apple but decided that an actual apple pie with actual apples in it would be better. An applie pie in that sense could be a chicken pie gone horribly wrong.

I'm sorry, Tart almost managed to wrnech the conversation back to choccy bars...is there a Crunchie Dark?

Sorry but don't you mean 'WRENCH'?

...and dont know about the crunchie dark - that would be pleasant -- best ask the conoisseur of darkness who leads this message thread.


...there may be another spelling error in there?!

Wrnech? It's Danish. Means 'Deftly steer back to original course- mainly refers to driving a dog sledge'. Pronounced REKTCH...it's a silent n.

Nice! Does it say "for cooking only" anywhere on it and you just glanced over it because it's in french?

ha no =p this was a proper Lindt chocolate in the fancy wrapping etc.
I'll give you some when you're back from Leeds.

and i'm amazing at french!

I saw some in a shop in Tavistock.

Didn't buy it though. Chocolate is good. Eating pure cocoa powder isn't.

There's a happy medium and I think it's about 70%.

Biscuit of the week - Dark chocolate digestives....darn it...just dropped crumbs in my key pad...

There's a new even spicier Zinger Tower Burger at KFC at the mo. Check it.

Also, Orange Matchmakers McFlurry. Yum yum.

Amazon (UK) is now selling US food products.

(And French, Japanese and Indian).

JP - put details of that steak place you went to on here. Want to check it one time.

Yes, so while you were (mostly) all away in Sri Lanka for the wedding of the year some of us were having far less fun here in England.

For Tizzy and I however, that time was punctuated with one particularly enjoyable experience. We went to this restaurant:

Buen Ayre

The place is amazing. Now when Argentinian steak is mentioned many of you will immediately think of Gaucho Grill. This place makes Gaucho Grill look like a joke. It's cheaper, friendlier, meatier (much meatier) and tastier.

I shared the Parilladda Deluxe. To see what this looked like click here.

Seriously, we need to incorporate this place into one of our gatherings at some point. I have already pencilled it in as potential stag-do material (when I ever get round to having one).

Parrillada Deluxe (min. 2 personas) £23.00 (per person)
14oz prime Argentine Sirloin steak + 11oz grilled Argentine Rib-eye steak
two Argentine-style pork sausages + black pudding + provolone cheese
*To replace either steak for a Fillet, an additional £5 will be charged.

I want.