duomo

Confession—I have been rather underwhelmed by Mast Brothers' Stumptown Coffee Chocolate Bar. The flavours are complex enough: it opens with a hit of cherry and dark, dark muscovado, then melds into something pleasantly tarry, astringent, and rather green. However, its slightly granular texture bothered me with its reticence to commit to the crunch of whole beans or the velvet smoothness of a more refined chocolate. On the whole, I like this bar but would rather pick out Almonds & Sea Salt or Papua New Guinea next time.

Although we merely speak of chocolate bars we really are alluding to a different source/locus/medium of pleasure/pain.

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