Do you like chocolate? Phil Collins? Gorillas?

[Mike_M57]

I don't buy chocolate very often anymore, unless I need it for cooking, and then I usually just buy Hershey's or whatever they have at the store. I don't recall seeing Cadbury chocolate, though. I'm going to try it next time if I can find it.

If you ever get the chance to visit Boehm's Candies in Issaquah, WA, you should try their chocolates (especially the Rum Balls!). People used to tell me how great Godiva chocolates are. Boehm's makes Godiva taste like garbage mixed with vomit in comparison, IMO.

I like Phill Collins and Genesis, but that video was... boring. I fast-forwarded to the end and it still made no sense. 2007 must have been a slow year for the awards people, huh?

 

[3MTA3]

@tac Damn that was great! I wish US ads were as good. Proves you don't need to rub everyone's face in the product to make your case.

Also, have decided NOT to get get between a gorilla and his chocolate, or bananas, or anything else for that matter.

 

[tac]

I don't buy chocolate very often anymore, unless I need it for cooking, and then I usually just buy Hershey's or whatever they have at the store. I don't recall seeing Cadbury chocolate, though. I'm going to try it next time if I can find it.

If you ever get the chance to visit Boehm's Candies in Issaquah, WA, you should try their chocolates (especially the Rum Balls!). People used to tell me how great Godiva chocolates are. Boehm's makes Godiva taste like garbage mixed with vomit in comparison, IMO.

I like Phill Collins and Genesis, but that video was... boring. I fast-forwarded to the end and it still made no sense. 2007 must have been a slow year for the awards people, huh?

It's better in the original - you watched the whole thing. I bleeve the original shown on TV was much, much shrtr.

 

[sobo]

That bottom guy is Wally Glenn. I know him, funny enough. Good dude. Does a lot of fire work at Burning Man (no, did not meet him there.)

I feel sorry for his cat...

@tac, I grew up in Europe and spent a little time in the UK. I loves me some Cadbury chocolate.
Don't let these North American infidels dispel you of the notion of how great a confection a Cadbury chocolate bar is...

 

[Dungannon]

Toured the Cadbury factory at Dunedin, New Zealand in 2003. Fascinating tour, world class chocolate.
A few years later we were back east and visited the Hershey factory in Pennsylvania. The tour, like the chocolate, was third rate.

 

[titsonritz]

For the record, I love Genesis/Phil Collins, gorillas...especially King Kong and dark chocolate...Cadbury or any other of the good stuff.

 

[Hayharnel]

Phil Collins, I never heard of Her?

 

[partsed]

Toured the Cadbury factory at Dunedin, New Zealand in 2003. Fascinating tour, world class chocolate.
A few years later we were back east and visited the Hershey factory in Pennsylvania. The tour, like the chocolate, was third rate.

Was in Dunedin in 2019 and Cadbury had shuttered their facilities there. Beautiful city and the train station was amazing!!!

 

[partsed]

 

[Dungannon]

Was in Dunedin in 2019 and Cadbury had shuttered their facilities there. Beautiful city and the train station was amazing!!!

Did you check out the Speights brewery? Our guide was pretty arrogant and singled me out for some comments, but I loved their beer. Unfortunately, the country banned their popular beer advertisements on TV years ago.

 

[partsed]

No I didn't, our tour guide was a husband and wife team that started their own business. She ran our tour and her husband ran a different one. Did you go to castle and tour that?? Did buy a couple of bottles of wine from a winery in Tasmania. Probably open them this Christmas.

 

[Dungannon]

No I didn't, our tour guide was a husband and wife team that started their own business. She ran our tour and her husband ran a different one. Did you go to castle and tour that?? Did buy a couple of bottles of wine from a winery in Tasmania. Probably open them this Christmas.

Spent one night at the 'castle' though in reality all the rooms are in the old stable and the 'castle' is a walk-about tour. It was interesting because the lady that has been restoring it all these years was the one escorting us around.

No wine or spirits as I'm largely an ale and hard cider guy.

Incidentally, the tour guide at the brewery got annoyed at me because [unlike him] I knew the difference between a Continental shave horse and an English bodgers horse, as well as the difference between a drawknife and a spokeshave. He appeared old enough to have grown up with the imperial system but ragged on me/Americans for our 'backwardness' for not going completely metric, so I asked how things were working out with his metric clock and calendar. He attempted to have the last word by asking me how I'd divide 4 and 7/16ths into three parts using the imperial system. I told I'd step it out using dividers as woodworkers have been doing it for the past 3000 years. Shortly after, with me standing in the back of the group to minimize any more asides, the guide asked for opinions after we had sampled a variety of new Speights offerings [including chocolate beer]. I told him the original Speights was fantastic and the new offerings were precious. I was trying to be diplomatic [my actual thoughts involved fecal matter and noxious fumes], but my wife decided things were getting too frosty and drug me away by the arm, thus ending our tour a bit early.

 

[slimmer13]

Phil Collins? You mean Chrome Bone?

 

[partsed]

Not a fan of rap, but love the interaction