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We got the advent calendar. Very good. Maybe I'll review each day's chocolate?

Macadamia Praline

Quote from: Shelley* First it was sweet, nice texture, crunch, smooth
* Then it was, wait, really sophisticated chocolate or nut tasting
* And then a little spark of salt came in
* And then something else I forgot
* Then it all melted together! Every single component melted together with my spit
* Yum yum yum yum yum.
* I'm gonna cry! It was so good

Mint Hot Choco

Quote from: ShelleyThis is the first chocolate I've had where the flavour of mint... blends with the flavour of chocolate... instead of, here's mint, and here's chocolate. You can actually call this, "minty chocolate."

Maple Pecan Pie
Not Shelley's thing, but i loved it! The combination of maple and pecan tasted very familiar, very rich, not overly sweet. As with the previous chocos, the flavours feel very distinct and i felt a sense of moving between them through time... I'll need to note the order next time...

Earl Grey
Yep, tastes like Earl Grey

Quote from: ShelleyDoesn't taste like weed

Yeah, Earl Grey stuff always has a kind of marijuana-y flavour to us... this was good though.

Opera Cake
I've never had an opera cake. It had a really almond-y, dark flavour. Not that much depth this time?

Quote from: ShelleyI don't think it captures 'opera' but it's a damn good round ball thing

Orange Twist
(We don't remember it.)

Montblanc

Quote from: ShelleyJapanese ppl don't know what a Montblanc tastes like

We only had montblanc in Japan and it was weird. This tasted nothing like that.

Quote from: ShelleyThere was something sparkly in the Montblanc, and a lot of really thin swirl layers. I don't know how they did it.

Caramel Corn
Omg this one was so great. It was caramelly and had a little bit of saltiness to it, just a bit. Shelley got a crunchy part. I'm jealous :(
P.S. the decor on this one was weird... it looked like a perfectly yellow thing that a bird had pooped on

Quote from: ShelleyIt was nice. Nothing to gasp about.

Berry Streusel

Quote from: ShelleyTastes like a Christmas wreath with the little berries. There's spices like cinnamon or something. I don't like it.

I love this one, it's very refreshing

Cinnamon Sugar Pretzel
omg... it's like the best gingerbread I've ever had

Key lime pie

Quote from: ShelleyReminds me of the TVA

Mmm! It's good! This is the right amount of really good pie to eat, not a whole slice, just a single delicious bite

Salted Caramel

Quote from: ShelleyIt's the first salted caramel I've had where there's no salt crystal crunch, the saltiness is incorporated into the liquid

Cookie Butter Crunch

Quote from: Shelley*makes a face* It taste like hazelnut or something. (Is it good?) No... I mean... I don't like it. Reminds me of something. I can't place it.

Chestnut, maybe?

The little crunchies are really tiny, like wafer. It's not crunch, more like... air collapsing, which is what wafers are.

Plum Pudding

Quote from: ShelleyWhy it taste alcoholic? Like marinated bread in a bowl? There's cinnamon or something. It tastes bad. *blech*

Pretty impressive that they got this flavour profile into a choco though, wow. Not my fav.

Oh no they got oversoftened.

Salted Pistachio Praline

Quote from: ShelleyPretty very pistachio! Tastes like authentic pistachio.

Champagne

Quote from: ShelleyI crushed it.
Also, I took the entire bottom.
... :( *not happy face*
Why it so boozy?
Tastes like a booze chocolate

passion sesame praline

A burst of passion fruit! And then... a descent into sesame... honestly an insane flavour combination

Rum Nog
It's not that boozy! It's good! I don't know what this flavour is though

Quote from: Shelleyhate it, there's something cinnamon or nutmeg in there. There's a warmth in my mouth afterwards

Yuzu Hot Toddy

We don't know what a hot toddy is.

Quote from: shelleymm! ... Eugh!!! It's like, mm, nice yuzu. And then, EUGH, what's this disgusting alcohol flavour???

Lump of Coal

It's dark chocolate and something like... tea... tea leaves... or coffee grounds... bitter.

Quote from: ShelleyIt's definitely tea. Barley, maybe. Rice?

I like it!

How mysterious.

I like it too! Earthy and bitter. Looking up the flavour... "Charcoal-roasted hojicha cake and black sesame caramel—you'll never look at a lump of coal the same way again."

Crème Brûlée

I don't understand this flavour. it is nice. but it is also a pretty basic caramel flavour. isn't it supposed to have a toasted/burnt, caramelized, top flavour? They didn't get that in. There was some other weird flavour...

Quote from: ShelleyAlmond. There's almond in here. Oh, I got a little crunchy bit in here like the sugar they burn when it's on top.

It should be softer, I think. Some of the others are more soft. But [this one] was not, it's kinda harder.

It tasted a bit like white chocolate. I wanted a bit of egg flavour, but there wasn't one.

Citrus olive oil cake

Quote from: ShelleyIt's not that impressive. Where's the olive oil?

The citrus was good though!

That's it! The advent calendar only had the 1st-24th. Merry Christmas!

Oops, I missed taking notes on two of them! Here they are:

Milk Choco Galaxy

Rocher