the spirit of gifting

[gyre]

I can't remember the brand of the hot chocolate mix.
It came in matching cardboard or tins and had several flavors including orange.

Availability varies a lot over here.
Fresh Market carried my favorite cakes (cookies) for a long time and now can't get them here.
Can't remember the brand now, but I think they are a large firm over there.
Probably very common and not special where you are.

Dutch, but I love the Rademacher chocolate peppermint sticks.
Can only get the thin ones now, just not the right balance.

When I was on the cape, a dollar store had a bunch of chocolate bars from all over, russian, dutch, you name it.
They were charging more for the crap usa brands.
All dusty, but fresh enough, some kind of bulk purchase.
I meant to stock up before I left, but ran out of money or time.
Occasionally a lot of british stuff shows up in a bulk purchase store here.
Just depends on who they buy out.

Be careful of chocolate.
It does age, though foil sealed keeps far longer.

[tamarakay]

A batch of fudge once survived under the seat of our cargo van for a week at the burn. We forgot it was there. It was quite nice during exodus.

There are alternate readings of this statement.

spit hot chocolate on my screen. thanks fishy, that's twice today you got me.