[Dixonary] Cookie Monsters...

[Toni Savage]

Ohhh YUM!!! Is THAT season again?? <visions of mint chocolates dancing...>

-- Toni Savage


--- On Sun, 1/25/09, Bill Hirst <billhirst (AT) gmail (DOT) com> wrote:

> (I'm probably distracted by images of little green Girl
> Scouts with
> baskets of cookies skipping through the woods to
> grandpa's house.)

[EnDash@aol.com]

It's that season, indeed. But due to errors by the prepress people and the
proofreaders, millions of Thin Mint cookie packages destined for the New York
area were missing the Kosher certification mark to which they were entitled.
Although letters were sent out by the bakery to Scout councils with proof of
certification, sales within the Orthodox Jewish community may well be hurt by
this.

-- Dick


In a message dated 1/25/2009 4:11:25 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
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Ohhh YUM!!! Is THAT season again?? <visions of mint chocolates dancing...>

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[Judy G. Russell]

Ohhh YUM!!! Is THAT season again?? <visions of mint chocolates dancing...>

The Girl Scouts were out in the local markets this weekend with their boxes of cookies. But there's bad news this year. Really bad news. They have (whimper) reduced the number of Thin Mints (http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/fea/taste/stories/012309dnmetgirlscoutcookies.1c01e735.html) per box.

[davidh]

The Girl Scouts were out in the local markets this weekend with their boxes of cookies. But there's bad news this year. Really bad news. They have (whimper) reduced the number of Thin Mints (http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/fea/taste/stories/012309dnmetgirlscoutcookies.1c01e735.html) per box.
If peppermint seeds were the size of pine nuts you could make peppermint M&M's like peanut M&M's. OTOH why not chocolate coated pine nuts.

Sounds like a good project for GM foods: peanut sized mint seeds.

In the meanwhile how about gourmet gorp:
-- chocolate coated cashews
-- chocolate coated pistachios
-- chocolate coated pine nuts
-- chocolate coated hazelnuts
-- chocolate coated raisins
-- etc.
all in one bag

DH

[davidh]

Has anyone ever eaten plain cacao beans? The ultimate whole food, the ultimate holistic food? Do they have to be roasted first?

[davidh]

Could cacao beans be the redemption of Christmas fruit cake?

[Paul Keating]

Never tried one myself, but my father worked for many years for Cadbury's (a
brand that roughly corresponds in the UK and Ireland to Hershey's) and he
reckoned that raw cocoa beans are inedible. You can't break them with your
teeth. They have to be first roasted and then milled by machine. This yields
nibs. Nibs you can eat, but I gather they are an acquired taste. The
subsequent processing that turns them from something barely edible into the
foundation of the four basic food groups (viz: chocolate candy, chocolate
chip cookies, chocolate fudge and chocolate ice-cream) is also very much an
industrial activity: alkaline baths and hydraulic presses and such.

--
Paul Keating
The Hague
(who is very happy to be able to buy fabulous Belgian chocolate by Leonidas
at a tiny outlet in our local shopping centre, a 5-minute walk away; but the
very, very best is by Galler and for that one has to go to Brussels, 2½
hours by train, every few months or so)

----- Original Message -----
From: "davidh" <jdharper (AT) softhome (DOT) net>

> Has anyone ever eaten plain cacao beans? The ultimate whole food, the
> ultimate holistic food? Do they have to be roasted first?

[Toni Savage]

I would think that Mexicans, if anyone, would use cocoa beans as close to raw as anyone... they use chocolate powder in sauces a lot. (no sugar involved, just the plain chocolate)

-- Toni Savage


--- On Mon, 1/26/09, Paul Keating <keating (AT) acm (DOT) org> wrote:

> From: Paul Keating <keating (AT) acm (DOT) org>
> Subject: [Dixonary] Re: Cookie Monsters...
> To: Dixonary (AT) googlegroups (DOT) com
> Date: Monday, January 26, 2009, 4:54 PM
> Never tried one myself, but my father worked for many years
> for Cadbury's (a
> brand that roughly corresponds in the UK and Ireland to
> Hershey's) and he
> reckoned that raw cocoa beans are inedible. You can't
> break them with your
> teeth. They have to be first roasted and then milled by
> machine. This yields
> nibs. Nibs you can eat, but I gather they are an acquired
> taste. The
> subsequent processing that turns them from something barely
> edible into the
> foundation of the four basic food groups (viz: chocolate
> candy, chocolate
> chip cookies, chocolate fudge and chocolate ice-cream) is
> also very much an
> industrial activity: alkaline baths and hydraulic presses
> and such.
>
> --
> Paul Keating
> The Hague
> (who is very happy to be able to buy fabulous Belgian
> chocolate by Leonidas
> at a tiny outlet in our local shopping centre, a 5-minute
> walk away; but the
> very, very best is by Galler and for that one has to go to
> Brussels, 2½
> hours by train, every few months or so)
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "davidh" <jdharper (AT) softhome (DOT) net>
>
> > Has anyone ever eaten plain cacao beans? The ultimate
> whole food, the
> > ultimate holistic food? Do they have to be roasted
> first?