Monthly Archives: August 2007

John Dorian, Chocolate King

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As if you needed another reason to love Scrubs, the character of John Dorian, or even just Zach Braff – he loves chocolate. This Scrubs clip embodies the dream job we all wish we could report to daily (well, that is, except for you crazy people who dislike chocolate). The next season of Scrubs starts October 25, so let’s keep our fingers crossed for some more delicious John Dorian moments.

I wish I could call up Zach Braff and ask him a few questions about the Chocolate King, though. Such as, is being Chocolate King a birthright, or is this a gig any average joe could pick up? Are there any duties, or do you just get to sit around all day stuffing your face with chocolate, surrounded by things made of chocolate? Because that’s a pretty sweet-looking deal, if you ask me. I wonder if there’s such a thing as the Chocolate Queen….

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Candy Review: Headshot Gamer Candy

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Headshot gamer candy

Want some sustenance for an all-night gaming session, something that’ll deliver a kick of caffeine just as well as your Mountain Dew and Bawls? Uncommon Loot thought so. They recently sent over a few Headshot bars, whose packages boast, “Headshot is a candy made for gamers by gamers. Feeling tired owning all those newbs? There is enough energy packed into this bar to improve your game so much, that people will be complaining you have an Aimbot!” Made with guarana, a highly caffeinated berry, the bar promises to pack quite a punch.

The first flavor Uncommon Loot released is Chewy Chocolate Toffee, though they plan to follow up and release new flavors such as Chewy Peanut Butter, Fudge Graham and Mocha Cappuccino every three months. The packaging looks like something a gamer would pick up – it’s silver and adorned with a cross hair and bullet holes.

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The Electric Company Presents: Candy Candles

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For those of you who don’t remember The Electric Company, it was an educational show that ran on PBS from the mid 1970′s through the early 1980′s. The show was designed to teach elementary school children about reading comprehension, which it accomplished through a series of sketches, cartoons, and musical numbers.

This particular clip was designed to teach us two things:

  1. The word “can” is found in both “candy” and “candles.”
  2. Birthday cake candles are actually composed of delicious candy, made by tiny dancing elves in orange polyester suits.

Okay, so maybe tiny dancing elves in orange polyester suits don’t make birthday cake candles, and maybe candles aren’t made of delicious candy, but so what? There are people dancing on a cake! Singing about candy! Atop a clown tablecloth! Singing a song that includes a background chorus of mmm-mmm-mmm-mmm, and lyrics like: “Most candles aren’t for eating, they’re only wax and wick, but you can eat our candles, ’cause candy is a stick, oh!”

Oh, Electric Company, how you are missed. Your inCANdescent light may have been shut off, but your legacy lives on, in this, the greatest musical number of all time.

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Candy Review: Chuao Chocolatier’s ChocoPods

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ChocoPod package
It’s always fun to come home to a big package from FedEx, especially when it’s something you didn’t have to pay for and it contains chocolate treats. This time the sender was Chuao Chocolatier and based solely on their packaging, they appeared to be a fairly upscale brand. As we all know though, packaging is probably the least important part of eating chocolate – we all know it’s about the taste.

The samples they sent me were from the ChocoPod line, which are small individually wrapped chocolates, shaped like cacao pods. Aside from banana, all of the flavors are made with Dark Chocolate and all of the flavors except Candela are filled with a gel-like filling.

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