Chilli+Chocolate = Chilli Chocolate!

We get some strange emails here, as I’ve mentioned in the past, but we also get some good ones. Thorntons have been emailing me a lot lately, for some reason, so I thought I’d email them back. But what do you say to the ‘number one chocolate and confectionery brand in the UK’? All I could really think of was ‘can we have some chocolate please?’, so that’s what I said. And they, very kindly, sent me some.

Naturally, it’s a sample of their latest line that they’re looking to promote but hey, we’re not fussy in this office. Chilli chocolate is the line they’re currently running for a limited period – a mix of chocolate and, you guessed it, chilli. Kind of tastes just like chocolate to us. Don’t get me wrong, it’s nice chocolate, but the only thing chilli about it is a slight – very slight – tingle in the mouth accompanying the aftertaste. Maybe that’s what it’s supposed to be like. Let’s read a bit of blurb:

“The overtones of intense, single origin, Mexican dark chocolate, perfectly complements the subtle warmth of the real chilli infusion. The chilli notes are subtle, yet warming as we’ve infused the cocoa butter ourselves with real chillis to make sure we’ve got the taste just right.”

Exactly – that’s what we meant. It does also come in funky little red boxes. Have a look:


I like the sound of some of their other flavours in these little boxes, like Orange & Cardamom, Special Toffee and Mint. Mmmmm...toffee. Not so sure about some of the others in the range though. Balsamic chocolate anyone? Sounds weird to me.

There’s 19 flavours in their Chocolate Block range, including those mentioned above as well as Fairtrade Organic, 85% French Dark, Ginger in Dark, Papua New Guinea Milk and AntioxiChoc BerryBoost and more, all available in a Thorntons store near you now!