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Cooking & Baking

Warpy

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1. Buying it from Williams-Sonoma is rather akin

Reply to NRaleighLiberal (Original post)

Sat Dec 27, 2014, 08:35 PM

Dec 2014

to buying polished apples, elaborately wrapped, in Japan. The packaging is what is the most important, the contents are nearly irrelevant.

The Williams-Sonoma stuff is likely very good, using a small company to produce it in bulk with real vanilla flavoring instead of vanillin and so forth, but the packaging is what costs the bucks.

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I made my wife peppermint bark for Christmas - so easy... [View all] NRaleighLiberal Dec 2014 OP

Buying it from Williams-Sonoma is rather akin Warpy Dec 2014 #1

No trader joe's here, but I love this stuff. cbayer Dec 2014 #2

NICE of you! elleng Dec 2014 #3

It is wonderful - it is a Belgian dark, nice and brittle and addictive! NRaleighLiberal Dec 2014 #4

UH OH, elleng Dec 2014 #5

they also sell this in small individually wrapped bars in a three pack. grasswire Dec 2014 #6

The checkstand tactic gets me! elleng Dec 2014 #8

I don't think I'd ever thought about why it's called 'bark'. Erich Bloodaxe BSN Dec 2014 #7

I think it's the way the candy sticks out of the otherwise smooth surface, like bark... MrMickeysMom Dec 2014 #9

That is so sweet! And sounds utterly delicious. Luminous Animal Dec 2014 #10

no photo? blackcrow Dec 2014 #11

I should have...it's already gone! next time... NRaleighLiberal Dec 2014 #12