Hotel Chocolat fancy shmancy "Orange Melanges", and no, I haven't not been eating chocolate for that long

Apologies. I haven't been updating when i've been eating - obviously; the hiatus between this post and my last was waaay too long, and you know i can't go for that long without chocolate. i actually had this set (pictured below) about a week ago and managed to eat it rather slowly, over the course of 2-3 days.

i know, i was impressed by my legen-... (wait for it)... -dary self-control.

yeah, no, i don't really have any. i've also polished off a 5 pack of kinder buenos since last week, if that improves my credibility. the only reason i haven't been scarfing down more chocolate is because:

a) i'm way too lazy to get my ass over to the grocery store, which will probably change tomorrow as i have no real food anymore, except for

b) the nutella i have sitting on my desk, which, now that i think about it, is both a source of chocolate and real food. sort of. sorry again. i digress, probably because i'm trying (and succeeding! no shock there) in avoiding typing up my shakespeare's the tempest/forbidden planet paper. without further ado:


They were called something obnoxiously/pretentiously fancy like "Orange Melanges" (when really, i have no idea what a melange is and would have been perfectly satisfied with a name like... "little orange pieces and crispy bits in chocolate". granted, melanges sounds a lot nicer).

About 1.47 or something like a pop, which is pretty pricey, as far as chocolates go - these were comparable to the little orange numbers in the Thornton's truffle box thing i tried a few weeks back. These were comparatively less sweet - still a very satisfying balance of chocolate and orange, but the chocolate was noticeably darker.

i suppose the darker-ness of the chocolate (meaning less sugar, more cocoa) is supposed to be more indicative of quality, but i sort of liked the milkyness of the Thornton's as well. i guess it's a matter of what my mouth craves at the moment - unthinkingly sweet milk chocolate or the more thoughtful/mysterious/interesting dark chocolate.

i need to buy myself some cheese.