Thursday Thirteen #825

Yesterday was International Chocolate Day. Boy howdy, I love me some chocolate!

Here are 13 of my favorite (or used to be favorite) chocolates:

1. Cella's milk chocolate covered cherries. (I used to love the dark chocolate ones, but since my last ulcer, dark chocolate is not something I can handle anymore, alas.)

2. Milky Way Midnight. I haven't seen this candy bar on the shelves in well over a year. A search on Bing indicates it has been discontinued. Me sad.

3. Fudge. I love good fudge. I have had bad fudge, but good fudge is fantastic. The best fudge is the fudge I make, followed by my stepmother's fudge, and then the fudge we used to get when we went to the beach.

4. Truffles. Chocolatey center, milk chocolate covering. What's not to love?

5. Three Musketeers Bar. This used to be my favorite candy bar, but I don't eat it often anymore. My taste buds must have changed, because the candy bar doesn't taste the same to me.

6. Cadbury Eggs. This is another favorite that I have stopped eating (mostly) because it doesn't taste as good as it once did. They are also much smaller than they used to be. Do the manufacturers think we don't notice these things?

7. Milky Way. I will still eat a regular Milky Way if that's all I see and absolutely must be bad and eat this stuff.

8. Lindor Chocolate Truffle Bar. Right now, this is my go-to chocolate. The bar is in six sections, and I eat three little sections one day and three the next when I get a hold of a bar. I try to spread it out.

9. Chocolate chip cookies. I don't know if this belongs on a list of chocolates, but I am putting it there.

10. Ghirardelli's filled chocolates. They have some with raspberry and another with caramel that will make you moan if you haven't had them in a long time. (Ain't no chocolate going to make you moan if you eat all the time.)

11. Brownies. I find good chewy chocolate brownies irresitable.

12. Chocolate cake. Aside from a cupcake I recently had, I haven't had chocolate cake in years as it is hard on my ulcers and reflux. But man is a good piece of chocolate cake with chocolate icing something to celebrate.

13. Chocolate lush. This is a family recipe. I give it my own twist, but it's good. It's a chocolate cake-like concoction that creates its own pudding on the bottom. Eat it while it's warm with a little whipped cream. Yum!

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