Thursday, 22 November 2012

Win chocolate!

Honestly, was there ever a better title for a post?

How about this one:

Win seriously nice luxury chocolate!

Yup, Hotel Chocolat chocolate, no less.  To be precise a selection of their stocking fillers.

Tragically, I can't tell you what they taste like, because they didn't send me any.  Instead they sent me their Purist Festive Wreath:  70% cocoa single estate dark arriba chocolate, with golden raisins, almonds and hazelnuts.  It's the platonic ideal of a fruit and nut bar.  Only better.

When it arrived it looked like this:




Now, a week later, it looks like this:


And yes, we did need the knife to get through it.

Thank you, Hotel Chocolat.

So, if you want to find out if the Tipsy Christmas Puddings or Piglets in Blankets (clearly too good for the children) are just as good, leave me a comment giving me a better title for a post (any post), and I'll pick a winner at random  next Friday (30th) and get someone's December off to a very chocolatey start.


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ps and if anyone's wondering how this fits with my self-flagellating post about food of earlier this month, consider it whatever the opposite of aversion therapy is...
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24 comments:

  1. Potty Mummy23 November 2012 at 06:07

    Oooh! Oooh! I've got a title for you... It could be a follow up to your 'self flagellating' post, and you could call it:

    'Quality Chocolate; pesky impediment to effective weight control, or useful source of vitamins, minerals and antioxidants? Discuss...'

    (It's probably too long but you get the idea) And look, there's even a research source here:

    http://www.fitday.com/fitness-articles/nutrition/healthy-eating/6-health-benefits-of-dark-chocolate.html#b

    BTW - I would be in the UK to collect a prize. Just in case, you know, I won anything...

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    1. Harriet26 November 2012 at 22:20

      I've been researching the effect of anti-oxidants on my online Christmas shopping this evening, as it happens. Turns out it makes me terribly efficient, but isn't very easy to get out of the cream sofa.

      Whoops.

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  2. Unknown23 November 2012 at 10:40

    oooh how delicious you lucky lady!
    Post title wise hows about...*hmmm*...Daddy or Chocolate?! (maybe that's infringing on copyright though!)

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    1. Harriet26 November 2012 at 22:20

      Just as long as you don't ask me the same question... Not sure how long my marriage would survive!

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  3. lucyd823 November 2012 at 22:14

    How about I'm dreaming of a chocolate Christmas

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    1. Harriet26 November 2012 at 22:21

      I suspect that's more likely than a white one!

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  4. Iota 23 November 2012 at 22:15

    Well, I obviously can't win, because I won the trainers, but I've got a good blog post title. "Free chocolate"

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    1. Harriet26 November 2012 at 22:21

      Hmm. Interesting moral question. It's going to be random selection again, so if you *do* win, do I have to put you back in the pot. And if I do that, it's not random any more, is it?

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  5. Unknown23 November 2012 at 23:53

    All I want for Christmas is Chocolate

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  6. Kelly24 November 2012 at 07:22

    Hmmm.... Where I hid the chocolate so the kids didn't eat it?

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    1. Harriet26 November 2012 at 22:22

      A secret: they asked me if I wanted that one or the milk chocolate version, and I might have asked for the dark one purely on the basis that the kids *wouldn't* eat it.

      Am I a bad mother?

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  7. Anonymous25 November 2012 at 13:51

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  8. Potty Mummy25 November 2012 at 16:42

    Well, I'm definitely rooting for 'Anonymous', having read their suggested title...

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    1. Harriet26 November 2012 at 22:23

      And you have now made it impossible for me to remove anonymous and their very tempting link.

      But disgrace on the search engines indeed. This is my finest work.

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  9. AGuidingLife25 November 2012 at 21:32

    Arrrrgh Anonymous is sooo wrong this kind of post should not be shared - share chocolate - the man is the worst kind of crazy. Obviously a man, no woman would want to a) get to season 5 of anything called clone wars and b) share chocolate

    can I have it now, purrrrrrrrrleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeease!

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    1. Harriet26 November 2012 at 22:27

      You've earned it, definitely, but you too are subject to the gods of the random number generator...


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  10. Unknown26 November 2012 at 19:57

    FREE WINE!

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    1. Harriet26 November 2012 at 22:18

      Is that better?

      Now, if you'd said "Free cake"...

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  11. Anonymous29 November 2012 at 00:51

    This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.

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  12. Penny29 November 2012 at 02:00

    My suggestion Win TER Chocolate.

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  13. Anonymous29 November 2012 at 05:38

    This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.

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  14. Harriet2 December 2012 at 16:35

    AND THE WINNER IS.....

    Julia! Randomly picked as number 5 of the commenters (sorry anonymouses, you didn't get included).

    Julia, let me have your email address and I'll make sure your chocolate is winging its way to you as soon as possible!

    Congratulations x

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I know. I'm sorry. I hate these word recognition, are you a robot, guff things too, but having just got rid of a large number of ungrammatical and poorly spelt adverts for all sorts of things I don't want, and especially don't want on my blog, I'm hoping that this will mean that only lovely people, of the actually a person variety, will comment.

So please do. Comments are great...

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