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Isn’t snow wonderful?  No, seriously, as long as they keep the roads clear I love it.  It’s so much prettier than the drab grey and brown that usually dominates the winter scene.  I’m applying for jobs now (academic jobs start posting in December for jobs starting in August) and one of the jobs is Long Beach, CA.  It would be nice to have less bitter cold, but I would really miss the seasons.  I guess I’m a midwesterner at heart.  Can I just stay in Bloomington?  That would be so nice.  I would be broke and unemployed, but it would be home.  I’m getting pre-emptively homesick so I don’t have to do it when I move!  Does that work?

Anyway, here we have Australia’s oldest chocolate bar, and it makes me think of the Victorian candies, the ones that were big on fruity and flowery flavors.  This one is similar to a Mounds bar, witha coconut center covered with dark chocolate.  This throws in the addition of cherry flavor, and a different shape – this one is a flat, wide rectangle – and a different texture, given that the coconut is very finely pulped instead of long shreds, and there are chunks of maraschino cherries in it… so really, it’s similar in that there are two ingredients the same.

I could see myself buying this quite a bit if it were on sale in the US.  It’s not too sweet, always a risk with a cherry filling, and I like having a good quality of chocolate on the outside instead of mockolate.  If you don’t like coconut, you’ll dislike this, but I like coconut, so I’m cool.  Of course, if you dislike coconut and get a coconut candy bar, that’s your own look-out.

SCORE: 8.5 out of 10

Purchased at: Jungle Jim’s

Price: ?