{"id":510,"date":"2009-04-19T12:42:14","date_gmt":"2009-04-19T12:42:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/?p=510"},"modified":"2009-04-19T12:42:14","modified_gmt":"2009-04-19T12:42:14","slug":"chocolate-coated-coffee-beans-yum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/2009\/04\/19\/chocolate-coated-coffee-beans-yum\/","title":{"rendered":"Chocolate Coated Coffee Beans &#8211; YUM!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I bought some of these chocolate covered coffee beans last week, and they are the roxors!<\/p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.goodnessdirect.co.uk\/cgi-local\/frameset\/detail\/230754_Carol_Anne_Roasted_Coffee_Beans_Coated_In_Plain_Chocolate_3kg.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"Roasted Coffee Beans Smothered in Chocolate\" src=\"http:\/\/www.goodnessdirect.co.uk\/detail\/230754b.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>\n<p>Just to be clear, I didn&#8217;t just by *some*, <strong>I bought *loads*.  3kg to be precise.<\/strong>  It&#8217;s not really my fault, they got proportionately cheaper, the more you buy, so it was&#8230; well&#8230; a saving&#8230; sort of.  Oh dear.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, they are my new most favourite food.  <strong>I love coffee sweets generally<\/strong>, which puts me in a minority in the world I realise that.  However these are some slight coffee tasting cream sweetie, oh no, they&#8217;re the real deal.  A whole roasted coffee bean that&#8217;s been (haha) coated in chocolate.  <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" title=\"Coffee Bean\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mrcheapstuff.com\/images\/coffee_beans.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"255\" \/>   <\/p>\n<p>They pretty much taste like Mocha (I&#8217;m lead to believe, I don&#8217;t drink the stuff myself) but they do do a very good job of cutting out the middle man&#8230; water in this instance. I took some down the gym on Saturday (did I say I bought 3kg of the stuff?) and the reaction as pretty consistent: <em>&#8220;Chocolate coated coffee beans?  Are you sure?  That sounds terrible.  I&#8217;ll just try one&#8230; small one. Hey that&#8217;s not bad.  Actually that&#8217;s pretty good.  Let me try another.  Hey, they&#8217;re great, can I take a hand full?&#8221;<\/em> They were a great success and highly recommended, and I have to thank my friend Ian Sturrock for the original introduction to them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I bought some of these chocolate covered coffee beans last week, and they are the roxors! Just to be clear, I didn&#8217;t just by *some*, I bought *loads*. 3kg to be precise. It&#8217;s not really my fault, they got proportionately cheaper, the more you buy, so it was&#8230; well&#8230; a saving&#8230; sort of. Oh dear. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":161,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,7],"tags":[158],"class_list":{"0":"post-510","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"category-the-zone-diet","8":"tag-coffee"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/161"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=510"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}