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Me? Rant about chocolate? Not directly. It's more of a rant about a combination of mail order chocolate and the really hot weather we've had over here recently.

I have a subscription to a place that sends me fantastic, unusal, fresh and delicious chocolates once a month. They are, I'm convinced, the best chocolates in the world. Oh, there's the occasional experiment that fails, such as the recent sage/chocolate effort which, well, try to imagine paxo stuffing covered in chocolate - not a huge success. But in the main their chocs are just fantastic. Here's a picture, just to show you.

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So, the descriptions haven't come out well. But take my word for it, these are fantastic chocs.

Problem is, the boxes they send out are too big to fit through my letterbox, and the postman comes to my house some hours after I've gone to work. So yesterday I took my little "collect your post" card and went to get my mystery package, and found out it was my chocs.

Oh dear. It must have been warm in all those warehouses it went through before it got to me. All those delicately moulded shapes, carefully presented fillings, melted into a gungy mulch.

Here they are after spending a while in the fridge to solidify again.

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Oh yeah, 3 have been eaten.

I thought, well, I could send them back. Because they're clearly not in the state they're best meant to be enjoyed in.

And then I thought, but if I send them back, the replacement box is going to go through exactly the same process as the one I've got. The postman will not be able to deliver it to me, it'll go back to the depot, it'll be there for at least 1 day, and it'll arrive in exactly the same squelchy state.

And the fact is that they all still most likely tastes just as they're meant to, even if the textures are changed.

So, I'm keeping my deformed chocs. But I'm going to deprive myself of the next 2 months in the hope that by September, they won't be melting so badly.

Now that the japanese have invented their invisibility cloak, it's time to invent cheap refrigerated packaging so that I can have my special chocs EVERY MONTH WITHOUT FAIL!

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We have the same type of thing we are sent chocolates once a month as taste testers. Its quite yummy but I find think your best to inform the sender to place "Keep refrigerated" on the box.

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I subscribe to the same company...not as often as Id like to, though.

and they `Do` label the box carefully `Keep out of direct sunlight. etc`

you should complain to your warehouse. it is the post offices resonsibility to see the mail gets though...intact.

(I did not like the Sage stuffed chocs neither)

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Oh god...I'd kill for some good chocolate....

How do I contact these people? This sounds sooo choice!

Melted or not! (In fact, I've been known to keep a box of Godiva Truffles on my printer so they stay nice and gooey).

Share the wealth! A jonzing pregnant woman needs a chocolate fixx.... 3some <---- (group chocolate body licking.)

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Tengu and I use www.chocs.com, but I think they only deliver to the uk. Just imagine the condition they'd arrive in after being shipped over to the US in the heat of summer Smile

Tengu, you're right, I should complain. My post office has been causing me grief for some time.

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Okay okay this is just not fair.
First the botp movie and now....CHOCOLATE
WAAAAAAAHHHHHH
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there are plenty of choc of the moth clubs in the US, have a search around

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Ya there must be! Big Grin

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ooo, where? and can they ship north over the border?

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Eeeep. 30-40 dollars a month for a year membership to a chocolate of the month club???

That, by the way, seemed to be typical of what I found in the U.S. when I searched this afternoon.

Nope. I'll just visit Godiva Chocolates twice a year. Sheesh.

I'll just admire the lovely smooshy chocolate pictures.

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Its £15 here.

For me its the `Choc every quarter club`

http://www.chocexpress.com/cx1/

they deliver pretty much anywhere if you can afford it

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