Sunday, September 14, 2008

ChocolateBet: September 14, 2008

Chocolate of the Day:
1 piece
Sahagun Chocolates
"Miracle Pill" - (prune, orange peel, dark chocolate)
Very Good + - nice rich moist, sweet filling goes well with the dark chocolate
Wt.: ~.5 oz.
Calories: ~ 75 calories
Cost: $?
Purchased from: Sahagun Chocolates/Chocolate Shop, in Portland, OR

Warning: Nostalgia Moment....This chocolate reminded me of chocolate-covered fruit (prunes and apricots mostly) that my mom used to order around the holidays in the 1960s and 1970s, from a company called Bee Ritchie's in the SF South Bay Area. Bee Ritchie's (I hope I'm spelling their name correctly) was in business when Silicon Valley still had some farmland left that hadn't been developed. At this time (back in the dinosaur age as my teenage daughter would say), there were still some apricot and plum trees standing - remnants of old orchards that were apparently thriving back in the 1940s and 1950s. Sahagun uses local Oregon produce for their chocolates, so my guess is that the dried Brooks plum (aka prune) in this chocolate was from an Oregon orchard.
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