Vosges may have a bacon chocolate bar, and the owner may be certifiable, but Zotter is clearly in the lead as far as chocolate-based insanity goes. I got a bar today (yet untasted) of their with-stuff-in line called "Spicy Chicken Ensemble + Chilli", which contains not chicken but some Advocaatish liqueur; thinking this might be a clumsy translation of something that sounded remotely appetizing in German I went to their homepage (turns out that in Austria it's called ... "Hot Chicken Ensemble + Chilli", which doesn't really help me). Check out these flavors, some of the more bizarre of which I list below:
Coffee, plum, bacon (plums marinated in wine)
Cheese, walnuts, raisins
Lemon and polenta
Pineapple-pepper
Beer
Beet and galangal
Cranberries and cepes
Celery, truffles, port
Date and shiitake
Mare's milk with oats (deep-fried oats!)
Sweet potato, mocha, rosemary
Tomato and olive oil
Tofu and sake
Beer might not really be that strange. There are various wine-containing bars that I haven't listed, after all. And some of them are probably really good (coffee/plum/bacon!). But they are at least unconventional.
The mares milk thing is odd. Why mares rather than cows?
But the sweet potato, mocha, rosemary one I bet is awesome. Also pineapple-pepper.
Posted by: bitchphd | January 14, 2008 at 01:36 AM
Where are you getting these bars?
Posted by: ogged | January 14, 2008 at 07:38 AM
Bittersweet, of course. Though they don't have the full range.
Presumably mare's milk has a different flavor from cow's.
Posted by: ben wolfson | January 14, 2008 at 09:52 AM
I've actually been pretty disappointed with Vosges' chili-based chocolates. Too mild by far.
Posted by: counterfly | January 14, 2008 at 12:33 PM
Spicy Chicken Ensemble is really good!
Posted by: ben wolfson | January 14, 2008 at 01:59 PM
counterfly: have you tried Dagoba's Xocoatl bar? Also, Donnelly's Chocolate in Santa Cruz makes an ass-kicking chipotle chocolate bar.
Posted by: rone | January 14, 2008 at 08:19 PM