This product claims all kinds of health benefits without the added sugar and fat of eating chocolate. 

The pill contains 90% cocoa.  It is called “one a day” – Uno Al Dia.

Personally, I’d rather eat chocolate once a day and enjoy both the flavor benefits as well as any health benefits!

Of course my curiosity drove me to visit their website, www.pancracio.com, where I discovered one of Pancracio’s specialties is the Turron. 

Turrones are mostly unfamiliar to most people living in the U.S.  They are typically nougat confections made of honey, sugar, egg whites, toasted almonds or other nuts, and shaped into a rectangular tablet.  Pancracio has a varied selection of Turrones, enrobed in milk, dark and white chocolates.

Another interesting product is their Cocoa Pasta.  It is a Fusilli pasta containing cocoa.  The pasta is not sweet and I bet it is delicious served with a spicy chicken mole.

From my perspective, put the emphasis on eat!

But here’s a twist:  what about chocolate art you don’t (or can’t) eat?

Need an example… An art exhibition featuring miniature chocolate replicas of China’s ancient terracotta warriors opened this week in Taipei.

The show is called ‘World Chocolate Wonderland’ and the main attraction is a display of 400 chocolate warriors measuring 35 centimeters tall.  

Click here for the full article from Google news.

You might also enjoy an article from January when the exhibit first opened in China.  You can follow the link on the primal chocolate blog page to see a video with more information.

While I am sure this exhibition is incredible, it isn’t edible!

I like looking at chocolate art, but I love eating chocolate even more!

Chocolate-opoly is a decadently delicious property trading game for chocolate lovers.  Come again?

I haven’t had the pleasure of playing this game, so it could be fun, but I just gotta laugh thinking about it.  Keep reading.

According to the manufacturer, Late for the Sky, in Chocolate-Opoly you buy your favorite chocolate properties (ah, what would those be?), collect chunks of chocolate (not cool if not real) and requires you to suppress your chocolate cravings or get sent to Chocoholics Anonymous (as if there’s something wrong with being a chocoholic!).

Wait – there’s more…

You have to pay roasting fees!  This just gets better and better.

Here’s the tag line, “Dark, milk, bittersweet, semi-sweet, in a shake, filled with caramel, covered in nuts, or as a warm, frothy brew–there’s nothing the cocoa bean can’t do!” 

Ok then.  Who sniffed glue and then wrote that?  (of course I agree with the concept, it’s the rhyme that makes me chuckle)

All this for the list price of $29.99.  I’m thinking about all the decadently delicious chocolate I can get for that!   For real!

But, hey, I’m not really the board-game type.  If you are, maybe this would be a fun way to expand your time in the world of chocolate. 

If you’ve played it, you’re welcome to leave your own comment here in the blog.  Tell others what they can expect.

(The Chocolate-opoly text link and image link above will redirect you to Amazon where you can get the game for $10 off the list price, last time I checked.)

What more is there to say?

Bryn

(Hey, I could have tweeted this.  By the way you can follow along at www.twitter.com/chocolateclass)

Chocolate Fix is a single-player game where the pieces are in the shape of chocolate candies.  Basically this is a logic, problem solving, game where you have nine chocolates in three different colors and three different shapes.  Each exercise gives you clues as to how you put them into the “chocolate box”.

Think “chocolate meets Sudoku!”  Each 3×3 grid has only one possible solution based on the clues provided.  The easiest levels are quite straight forward and help you understand the notation of the clues.  The tougher levels provide an addicting challenge.  One of the lessons I learned is that apparently a chocolate addiction can apply to something that just looks like chocolate!  Or maybe it’s a game addiction, a problem solving addiction – heck I don’t know.

After working your way through the various levels you’ll be ready to eat the pieces.  Since they’re made of plastic, you better have some real chocolate on hand to get yourself through the experience.  This way even if the game proves that you’re not much of a logic problem solver, you still go away victorious having shown the chocolate bar who’s boss!

The game is inexpensive and would make a great chocolate gift for yourself or for a chocolate lover in your life.  For more information just click the photo.  It’s already a link over to the product on Amazon.com.