Merci Chocolate

"merci offers a thoughtful collection of rich, European chocolates made from the finest ingredients available. Known as Europe’s famous gift-giving chocolate, merci offers something for everyone and is sure to be warmly received." You can probably guess how I discovered merci. Indeed, "Europe's famous gift-giving chocolate" was given as a gift to a co-worker, who immediately ditched the box, providing me plenty of content for a chocolate review!  I wouldn't...

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The Collective Dairy

The Collective is a dairy brand found in the UK, but originally started in New Zealand.  They produce mostly yogurt (including drinkable kefir, and a non-dairy line)."Fresh, natural, vegetarian friendly with no added nasties or other tricky stuff. No artificial colours, preservatives so you won't be finding any weird numbers amongst our ingredients, honest!"While they have plenty of healthy, simple offerings, I was drawn in by the flavors of the premium line,...

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Gus's Community Market

Once upon a time (in 1981 to be exact), a family of immigrants opened a produce market, Haight-Ashbury Produce, that did quite well.  Well enough that the family opened a second location, Noriega Produce.  And then, after further expansion to the Haight location to add a deli and meat department (and rebranding as Haight Street Market), a third location, Gus's Market, sprung up in the Mission. And then another, in Mission Bay.  Guy's Community...

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