When I was little, I was always disappointed by hollow chocolate Easter eggs or bunnies. Hell, I'm still disappointed in them. I don't care if I'm eating a piece of chocolate molded into a fun shape if it's mostly air. But when we got this Rocky Road Egg from See's Candies, a milk chocolate egg filled with honey marshmallows and walnuts, I was kind of scared. It was big. And heavy (9.5 ounces). I felt a surge of power flow through me as I held that 1200-calorie bomb of chocolate-mashmallow-nut goodness in my palm. And then I cut it open. And it looked like this....
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Growing up in New York our local boxed chocolate of choice was either Barton's or Barricini's. That was what my grandmother would have at her apartment in the Bronx. I don't know if either of them was any better than Whitman's or Russell Stover, but they were my grandmother's choice and she doted on me, so I loved those chocolates. When I moved out to Los Angeles for my senior year of high school I was crushed to find no boxed candy I recognized. There was See's right near our house, but out of loyalty to my grandmother's choices, I never went in. Fast forward almost 40 years later. A month ago I found myself searching for a reasonably priced...
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