Archive for chocolate
Ban chocolate. It’s the only way to protect our computers
I’d forgotten what a pernicious security loophole chocolate opens up on our computers. It’s only disappointing to see to that in the three and a half years now no-one has demanded a ban on chocolate as the only way to secure our internet against paedophiles, the Mafia, internet pirate, the Chinese and the WI.
Sydney’s best hot chocolate
Behind this unprepossessing small shop front, tucked in amongst a row of shops near the Sydney Cricket Ground, is Sydney’s best hot chocolate. The ground floor is a tiny, cramped shop with a view of the chocolate machines on site. Head up to the stairs and you find another tiny, cramped space – but this [...]
How to make a chocolate bar controversial
I’m normally quite jaded about “let’s kick up a controversy and call it a clever marketing move” type campaigns, but this one from Romania is very clever. And it features chocolate: Rom, a popular Romanian chocolate bar that prominently features the Romanian flag on its packaging, evoked patriotism and national pride to fuel sales and [...]
A smart way of making a humdrum green technology exciting – with chocolate
Now here’s something clever to do with a chocolate bunny: One of the better uses of video for business to business and business to consumer social media marketing, bringing to life what could otherwise be a ran dry and technical subject.
Nidar Smash! chocolate bar: yummmmmm
Courtesy of the Scandinavian Kitchen a few days ago I had a Nidar Smash! chocolate bar for the first time. Only one thing to say about it: yummmmmm. Oh and yummmmmm. Not to mention yummmmmm. I’m sure you don’t need me to tell you that it wasn’t the paprika flavoured one I had, for that only [...]
Climate change: now it’s serious – chocolate is under threat
An Open Letter published by Forbes says: It now appears that on top of all of the other potentially catastrophic, costly, damaging, or dangerous impacts of human-caused climate change, there is a very serious risk that it will threaten the production of chocolate. Yes, chocolate. A new scientific study from the International Center for Tropical [...]
Reasons to like Lynne Featherstone's constituency #17…
.. because Lynne Featherstone‘s constituency of Hornsey & Wood Green contains a chocolate factory: . Not, of course, to be confused with The Chocolate Factory which isn’t a chocolate factory.
What happened to chocolate in the 1950s and 1960s?
This graph from Google shows how frequently “chocolate” was mentioned in the vast Google Books archive. As you can see, the proportion of books which mentioned chocolate took a nose-dive in the mid-twentieth century:
Phew, that was a close escape…
Nearly went to a chocolate tasting event but couldn’t make it. Have now received a message which starts: For those of you who attended last night’s event I can only offer my sincerest apologies about the venue. I had NO idea that it would be held in that kind of establishment. Crikey!
