New chocolate

I’m not generally a big chocolate-eater.  I don’t ever eat chocolate mixed with dairy (like chocolate shakes, chocolate ice cream, etc.).  I don’t ever choose chocolate cake (though if that’s the only option, I usually will still eat it).  I keep a container of hershey’s kisses on my desk at work to share, primarily because I know they’re safe from me.  I eat maybe one of those kisses per month.

I’ll sometimes eat a chocolate dessert when I’m out (like a molten chocolate cake or something).  And at home the only chocolate I eat is the occasional white chocolate chips on top of my greek yogurt dessert, and every once in a blue moon, a frozen caramel brownie.  Last year I ate one brownie after each of my long runs if the run was over about 16 miles (don’t remember what my exact threshold was).  This year, I made a pan of the brownies for the bachelorette party a few weeks ago, and there were a couple left at the end of the weekend that I brought home and froze.  I ate one after a long run (but not 16 miles, maybe 12?) a week or so ago, and I have one left.  I’m sure I’ll eventually eat and enjoy it.

But when it’s time to snack at work, I don’t go for chocolate.  I’m far more tempted by sweet things like cookies or cakes or donuts, or, more likely, by something salty like crackers or popcorn.

But it may all be changing now after my brother’s wedding. There were about a million sweet touches to their weekend, but the relevant one right now is the gift bags that we got at the hotel upon check-in, which I think all out of town guests got.

It was in a reusable Detroit Tigers bag and included various Michigan consumable products.  Things like Better Made potato chips and Kelloggs rice krispy treats, all of which I already ate w/o photographing.

The picture above shows the Kelloggs cereal bars (both of which I enjoyed).  And the two kinds of chocolate.

First, hubby and I each got a mini-Michigan. 

Plain milk chocolate.  Tasted okay.  I just ate mine yesterday.  I'd given the other one to a co-worker as a little treat.  Incidentally, based on this, I can see why they call Michigan the mitten state, but it makes no sense -- what about the rest of Michigan you fools???!!!  The ENTIRE state of Wisconsin looks like a mitten -- but only the bottom part of Michigan does.  There is no way Michigan can claim to be the mitten state.

In my middle little brother's wedding toast, he was talking about my now sister-in-law and his history on this debate.  He said they were both at a party once, and engaged in completely separate conversations.  He was talking to someone about where someplace in Wisconsin was.  He made a mitten-like shape with his hand and said, so you mean, near the thumb of the mitten?  And he was shocked that his brother's girlfriend shrieked "what??!!!" across the room and came charging over, declaring that Michigan was the mitten state and asserting that the description could never be used for Wisconsin.  He said they'd have to agree to disagree on that.

Anyway, that's all beside the point.  Also in the bag was this (and a dark chocolate version, which I've eaten without photographing):

Just turn your head sideways, I don't know how to rotate pictures. 

Anyway, I haven't eaten the one pictured above, but the Dark Chocolate Sea Salt Caramels may well be my favorite kind of chocolate EVER. 

I looked up the product description from their website:

Product Description

A NEW take on the smooth caramels you love! Enrobed in dark chocolate accented with sea salt, this elegant confection satisfies both sweet and salty cravings.

And I'm going to hold off hopefully a few more days before I eat the milk chocolate one, but then most assuredly, I will be ordering a box of my choice to enjoy! 

My new favorite Michigan product.  Aside from my sister-in-law of course!