Candy Lady Bitch...

[TOLady]

I have a great bulk store in my neighbourhood.

Go there almost every day to pick up goodies (they have sour wine gummies and sea salt chocolate!!!)

In any case - there is a policy that you need to purchase at least $5 of goods in order to use the debit card.

I am behind EW when she has only $4.42 in chocolate bits (yummmers!!! Skor bits). My kindly cashier informs her that all she has to do is pick up one or two more bits to make it over the $5 to make it good.

NOT. GOING. TO. DO. IT!!!

She insisted that she only WANTED THE AMOUNT IN HER BAG and was not going to get any more than that!

2 freaking bits of chocolate!

Poor cashier caved.

Trust me - this is not a poor woman - she's using a freaking debit card for less than $5!!! Gold TD Visa/debit!

Arghhh!

I love my candy store! They also have a great turn-over in nuts and baking supplies so I soooo support them.

[Kogarashi]

Try the closest post office to my apartment. It's a counter in a small corner store (and I do mean small; it's excessively cramped in there). Doesn't take checks or debit cards, and has a $20 minimum on credit cards. Plus it can't sell the packing materials unless you're packing in them right there, so if you don't have cash, you get to buy stamps to fill up the gap.

[fireheart]

Try the closest post office to my apartment. It's a counter in a small corner store (and I do mean small; it's excessively cramped in there). Doesn't take checks or debit cards, and has a $20 minimum on credit cards. Plus it can't sell the packing materials unless you're packing in them right there, so if you don't have cash, you get to buy stamps to fill up the gap.

I'm wondering how many people there have demanded their products free since "well debit cards/cheques are a form of legal tender"...

[RestaurantDude]

Not to mention that a minimum purchase amount is usually against the merchant agreement, iirc. I do se the store's side I. It, though; transaction fees and all.

[Dips]

Heading it off at the pass.

Discussions of credit card merchant agreements tend to hopelessly derail threads and get them closed.

So let's not go down the road. Trust me, it's very boring. No scenery at all.

'K? Thanks!

[El Pollo Guerrera]

OK, I have to ask...

What is sea salt chocolate?

[RetailWorkhorse]

OK, I have to ask...

What is sea salt chocolate?

Something that sounds absolutely delicious but then again I'm into Sea Salt Ice Creme.

[protege]

So let's not go down the road. Trust me, it's very boring. No scenery at all.

Sounds like someone's driven along I-80 in Pennsylvania

Back on topic though, I usually do have bulk candy at work. Nothing fancy...just some mints or Runts. Of course, if I go on vacation, some salt water taffy usually comes home with me. Good stuff, since some of it is made in the stores

[Magpie]

What is sea salt chocolate?

Exactly what it sounds like. I've never seen it except with high-end chocolate. It's really nice, and it's nowhere near as salty as chocolate-covered pretzels.

[Kogarashi]

Sounds like someone's driven along I-80 in Pennsylvania

Can't be nearly as bad as I-80 in Wyoming. Talk about featureless.

I wanna try sea-salt chocolate!

[ralerin]

*points everyone who wants to try sea salt chocolate to the closest Lindt Store* They have a bar of dark chocolate with sea salt. If you don't like dark chocolate, don't worry-with the taste of the salt you feel like you're eating milk chocolate. Salt into anything rachets up flavors about 100%, which is why it's so popular in candies right now.

I once had a box of fleur de sel caramels (caramels dipped in milk chocolate with fleur de sel salt for a bit of crunch, a bit of decoration and to highlight the flavor). Most delicious things ever. I desperately want a box.

[bean]

I once had a box of fleur de sel caramels

Oh. My. God.

I WANT! RIGHT THE FRIG NOW!

Fun trivia: bulk fleur de sel is $35.99/lb at my store. Don't know why I remember this since we don't sell much of it.

[TOLady]

*points everyone who wants to try sea salt chocolate to the closest Lindt Store*

Them's the ones. Just went last night and picked up another bar of the sea salt along with a bar of the Chili flavoured.

They are a little pricey ($3.99Cdn), but it's a sippin' type of chocolate. You don't down it all in one sitting. It usually takes me a week to eat an entire bar, but them again, I enjoy torturing myself by eating only a tiny piece a day!

[Magpie]

They are a little pricey ($3.99Cdn), but it's a sippin' type of chocolate. You don't down it all in one sitting. It usually takes me a week to eat an entire bar, but them again, I enjoy torturing myself by eating only a tiny piece a day!

Not that I don't enjoy ratting you out, but the bar has 8 large segments in it. We still have one that my parents gave us at Easter. The only reason we don't have the salt one is that the ants got to it, and there were only 2 segments let, so we threw them both in the compost. The chili one was sealed better.

Oh, and if anyone cares - my dad calculated it out, one of the large segments (chili bar) is 1 point for Weight Watchers.

[TOLady]

Not that I don't enjoy ratting you out, but the bar has 8 large segments in it. We still have one that my parents gave us at Easter. The only reason we don't have the salt one is that the ants got to it, and there were only 2 segments let, so we threw them both in the compost. The chili one was sealed better.

Oh, and if anyone cares - my dad calculated it out, one of the large segments (chili bar) is 1 point for Weight Watchers.

For me and the DH - I tend to put all chocolate into the freezer. We do have an ant problem in Our Fair City apartment, so it's best to put them where it's coldest and break off a piece when I'm most craving. Now that the weather is getting better, we've not so much of a problem, but earlier in April, everything had to go into freezer bags and off any counter!

Yes - I did completely get my Administrative Assistants Day Godiva Chocolate package eaten by those little buggers! (only 3 pieces, but the other Rocky Mountain Factory treats from my other people were high and dry!)

I actually took the 2 bars I bought to my local pub today and we did a trying test with how they taste with different alcohols.

The Salt went well with the Tequila (no surprise, but I drink my Tequila no salt, no fruit), and the Chili went well with the Moosehead beer they were sampling.

Chocolate just makes everything sooo good!

BTW - anyone else following this thread - if you do eat Jelly Belly Jelly Beans = what are you favourite flavours/combinations?