Choco-lot

Without having tasted it yet, I’m a bit nervous. When I first saw this in the store, I was admittedly a little grossed out. I mean, meat and chocolate? But the more I’ve thought about it, the more sense it makes. Bacon is basically the following flavors: salt, fat, sugar, smoke, and in this case, apple. And all of those things go pretty well with chocolate. So, in the end, I guess it’s not that much different from putting maple syrup on bacon, something I do all the time.

When I lived in China for a year, getting a hold of foreign food was exceedingly difficult. In particular, chocolate was a rare comodity. Sure, lots of stores had things for sale that professed to be “cho-ke-li”, but they were usually brown-colored wax. Some places had dove bars, but they were very, very expensive (I [...]