Let’s have less name-calling and higher cocoa content

It is glorious here although the people aren’t as friendly as back in Suffolk where walking anywhere is a wallpaper of ‘good mornings’. I get a mere one. I know this area well so I know there aren’t many places to get great chocolate, and those that exist I’ve already visited.

So I’ve brought some to test and that includes a big bar of Fatso’s new Drunk’n Monkey: a 60% dark spiced rum, banana chip, salted cracker bar, £7.25. I’m still not sure what I think of the name Fatso and it’s also really hard to give a bar as a present – I’ve tried – without offending the recipient.

On my own, when no one’s watching, I am an 85%-90% cocoa content chocolate girl. I long for someone to make such a high cocoa bar with some nutty inclusions (I am not alone in this wish, readers do write in asking). I get around it by eating a bar of such chocolate with nut chasers; I reckon it all works out the same in the end.

But. I enjoyed the Drunk’n Monkey more than was decent. The tastes unfolded, like something out of Willy Wonka’s factory, one by one. The banana taste comes in strong, then the spiced rum and finally the saltiness until they all run together like some crazy party where everything eventually bleeds into one heady memory. One piece is enough to start the fun.