Comments on: The Agony & Ecstacy of 1 Pound… https://www.marketmanila.com/archives/the-agony-and-ecstacy-of-1-pound A food blog that talks about food, produce, recipes, ingredients, restaurants and markets here in the Philippines and around the globe. Thu, 19 Oct 2006 23:58:01 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Marketman https://www.marketmanila.com/archives/the-agony-and-ecstacy-of-1-pound#comment-16540 Thu, 19 Oct 2006 23:58:01 +0000 http://www.marketmanila.com/archives/the-agony-and-ecstacy-of-1-pound#comment-16540 Thanks for that tip Tei, I find that Unimart, Cash&Carry and South Supermarket tend to carry the things we had when we were kids…

]]> By: tei https://www.marketmanila.com/archives/the-agony-and-ecstacy-of-1-pound#comment-16500 Thu, 19 Oct 2006 15:03:15 +0000 http://www.marketmanila.com/archives/the-agony-and-ecstacy-of-1-pound#comment-16500 check out Unimart in Greenhills for Whitman’s. they’re placed near the fridge (milk, juice, butter sec) together with the other hard to find chocolates.

]]> By: Crissy https://www.marketmanila.com/archives/the-agony-and-ecstacy-of-1-pound#comment-16491 Thu, 19 Oct 2006 12:22:35 +0000 http://www.marketmanila.com/archives/the-agony-and-ecstacy-of-1-pound#comment-16491 Very tempting! Whenever my sister and I would eat See’s chocolate, we call it “see’s chocolate suprise!” Half the fun is guessing what you ate.

]]> By: pinky https://www.marketmanila.com/archives/the-agony-and-ecstacy-of-1-pound#comment-16457 Thu, 19 Oct 2006 03:01:49 +0000 http://www.marketmanila.com/archives/the-agony-and-ecstacy-of-1-pound#comment-16457 Chocnut? Who’s got some chocnut?

I love chocnut for its unique taste, also like Joanne, for nostalgic reasons as well. However, my kids all born and raised here in CA like em just because.

It may just be my imagination but it seems to me that the chocnut pieces now are smaller than I remember them from my childhood. Or it could be they only seemed bigger to me back then as a little kid.

Gonzo, pag take over mo ng Chocnut and improved on the product, bili ako ng stock OK? We might make some money here. Oh, the possibilities!

]]> By: gonzo https://www.marketmanila.com/archives/the-agony-and-ecstacy-of-1-pound#comment-16361 Tue, 17 Oct 2006 23:14:14 +0000 http://www.marketmanila.com/archives/the-agony-and-ecstacy-of-1-pound#comment-16361 Trishlovesbread: Almond Royal, of course! They’re truly fantastic, the best thing See’s has come up with. wish i had a can now.. Never even heard of sassafras lollipop. groovy name though. will check out.

as for the chocnut co takeover, haha, ok will reformulate for less powderiness, but i don’t know, maybe part of the charm of chocnut is its distant relation to polvoron? i just chuck em in the deepfreeze so that when it’s time to eat one it doesn’t fall apart on you.

incidentally, i did a taste test of the other chocnut style candies in the market in the hope that someone would have improved on the original chocnut. No luck. The others (Hany, Chocomani, etc) are even more sugary sweet, less flavoursome, and/or chalkier than the orig. dragsville..

]]> By: ShoppaHolique https://www.marketmanila.com/archives/the-agony-and-ecstacy-of-1-pound#comment-16332 Tue, 17 Oct 2006 12:41:26 +0000 http://www.marketmanila.com/archives/the-agony-and-ecstacy-of-1-pound#comment-16332 i read somewhere that a gourmand who counts calories is like a hooker checking her watch every five minutes…

]]> By: Isabelle https://www.marketmanila.com/archives/the-agony-and-ecstacy-of-1-pound#comment-16317 Tue, 17 Oct 2006 08:57:56 +0000 http://www.marketmanila.com/archives/the-agony-and-ecstacy-of-1-pound#comment-16317 In my last trip to Hawaii my boyfriend and I had a very enjoyable time choosing which chocolates to put in a box for me to take home. All of my choices had dark chocolate which is my favorite :-) What I like about going to the See’s store is that they give out samples while customers are lining up. Di ka pa bumibili, busog ka na ;-)

]]> By: trishlovesbread https://www.marketmanila.com/archives/the-agony-and-ecstacy-of-1-pound#comment-16282 Mon, 16 Oct 2006 17:32:09 +0000 http://www.marketmanila.com/archives/the-agony-and-ecstacy-of-1-pound#comment-16282 Gonzo, they’re called Almond Royal, one of two See’s confections I absolutely love. The second marvelous sweet of theirs is sasafras lollipop. The spicy rootbeer flavor is so interesting–have you tried it?

And when you do take over the Chocnut company, could you make the bars less powdery/chalky as well (but not as soft as Reese’s)? :-)

]]> By: juls https://www.marketmanila.com/archives/the-agony-and-ecstacy-of-1-pound#comment-16262 Mon, 16 Oct 2006 05:41:16 +0000 http://www.marketmanila.com/archives/the-agony-and-ecstacy-of-1-pound#comment-16262 yumyum.. i simply love see’s candies… the constant pasalubong from l.a…. yung ok sa akin is their 1lb. box of mix turtles (caramel+pecans). + marshmallow w/caramel

]]> By: gonzo https://www.marketmanila.com/archives/the-agony-and-ecstacy-of-1-pound#comment-16259 Mon, 16 Oct 2006 04:29:22 +0000 http://www.marketmanila.com/archives/the-agony-and-ecstacy-of-1-pound#comment-16259 What are the soft dark chocolate fudge ones with whole almonds wrapped in clear cellophane called? Comes in a round white can. Those are my favourite from See’s. Otherwise i studiously avoid American chocolates (really quite inferior and coarse-textured when compared to european or even japanese choccys, so, sayang the calories… also i have political/moral issues vs the current US govt and am avoiding american made).

Chocnut– funnily enough my current gf who is (ehem) ‘uppercrust’ Parisian born & bred just loved Chocnut when she was here last (i was explaining to her that it was a childhood treat of mine. she wasn’t listening. she ate around 5 of them in one go.). So now i have two large packs of !@$&* chocnut in my luggage for when i go see her next week. My dream is to take over the Chocnut company and make the confection less sugary sweet, more peanutty/chocolatey, maybe add a hint of salt to cut the cloying sweetness. That would make it a far better product, imho.

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