Troosies (i.e trousers) - not trusses, mind you some of the cuts of M&S trousers....

I've never heard of a thing called a Walnut Whip. Describe. Please.

On the off chance you're not asking rhetorically (and with triple digit posts, you should know better...), I give you the Deep Fried Snickers Bar.

A visual sample:

http://images.egullet.com/u2/i4983.jpg

I have had this before, more than once, and it is tasty, decadent, but not the highest expression of chocolate's sublimity. Have one (or two) if you get the chance, then you can cross that one off your dance card.



edit: fixed spelling typo with Montrose's Hot, Sweet and Sticky in the background. Appropos.

Did anybody mention Nutella?

I forgot all about Nutella! Oh, yummmmmmm! Going to the store to get some right NOW!! :yum:

It was a pyramid/cone of whirly milk chocolate about 2" high and 2" diameter at the base. The inside was hollow and contained white mousse-like fluffy chocolate - very light in texture more like whipped egg white. The whole thing was capped with a half walnut

The chocolate was fairly thick and it took a good set of choppers (teeth) to bite through it. The trick was to bite off the top with walnut and a good chunk of chocolate first, then to suck out the white fluffy mixture leaving the empty shell to attack wuth gusto - all in all, very messy in terms of execution, but very satisfying in terms of eating experience!!


This picture gives you an idea of what I mean. Looks like Nestle apparently still makes them (of a sort) but the originals were made by a small manufacturere called Duncan - Duncan's Walnut Whips were in a class of their own!

Thank god you explained that - I thought it was a diseased lung at first!!

I think you mean Ferrero Rocher. They sell them here in the US in drugstores and department stores.

I've never heard of them in slabs. I've only seen the chocolate candies in the gold wrapper. According to their FAQ, they do have others.

Deep Fried Snickers looks very scary.

Walnut Whips, OTOH, sound like something that has to be tried.

On the Walnut Whips front, I seem to remember that there was another half-walnut in the base, under the fluffy stuff... Sundae Girl??

I think I may have discovered the ultimate Christmas present for all you chocoholics (don't forget to click on 'more pictures'...).

Shouldn't be any trouble finding this in the USA and Australia as well (you'll be pleased to learn...)

They have been selling them on one or all of the shopping channels this week. For some reason, every time I channel surf, I see it.

We lead a sheltered life in rural England - the shopping channels here are somewhat quiet about this product. Now you have infomed me, I can see it quickly finding its place amongst those other great inventions that now occupy deep corners of kitchen cupboards - like the Brevill Sandwich Toaster and George Foreman's Electric Grill - not to mention those machines that made sparking drinks (damn, I said I wouldn't mention them...!)

Saw one at my local CVS this morning too.

I'm pretty sure I saw the chocolate fountain on QVC this week also. Interesting device, but despite my love for chocolate I know I have no need for one.

I would like to have a cotton candy maker, though, especially for those long winter nights when cotton candy would be just thing (I think our British friends would call it spun sugar).

Do not mock the George Foreman Grill. It is the greatest invention since the waffle iron.

And now you've also got me thinking how good it would be to make a toasted cheese and bacon sandwich in my sandwich iron.

No, I do not have a turkey fryer or a Popiel Showtime Rotisserie. Or a bread machine.

Limited kitchen cabinet space here in the apt.