I pay $6 for 24 ounces of Ghirardelli semi-sweet chips. There is no effing way I would pay $1.70 PER OUNCE for this twit's chocolate when I can get it from Target for $0.25 an ounce!
He's doomed, that product will be gone within a year and people will copy his design in less than that because I doubt that you can patent a fundamental geometric shape. Well, you can patent it - you can patent anything - but will it stand up under a challenged reexamination?
Dandelion chocolate (who makes these chips) is an order of magnitude better than Ghirardelli chocolate. If you're getting Ghirardelli you must as well just go Hershey.
I have a mild curiosity as to what they taste like, but I doubt they're worlds better than Ghirardelli,
Yes, not only is the shape obsessively made, but each batch of chocolate is made from a single plantation, and the variety they can get from chocolate beans is amazing. If you ever have a chance to go into one of their stores, it's amazing. Certainly one of the top chocolatiers in the world, if not the best, but they only make dark chocolate.
My wife and I visited a few chocolate shops in Dresden and Berlin in '15 and found some amazing things. I appreciate fine chocolates, but I live literally on top of a mountain in the middle of a national forest in New Mexico where there's easily fewer than 75,000 people in a 50 mile radius around me. Not much in the way of fine chocolates around me. So I take what I can get, and Target mail-order beats walking in to Walmart. My wife is much more the aficionado than I, which is to say an addict, so Ghirardelli is great for my baking needs. Won't touch Hershey unless a gun were held to my head.
But if the opportunity to visit Dandelion ever presents itself, we will check it out!
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He's doomed, that product will be gone within a year and people will copy his design in less than that because I doubt that you can patent a fundamental geometric shape. Well, you can patent it - you can patent anything - but will it stand up under a challenged reexamination?
I have a mild curiosity as to what they taste
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I have a mild curiosity as to what they taste like, but I doubt they're worlds better than Ghirardelli,
Yes, not only is the shape obsessively made, but each batch of chocolate is made from a single plantation, and the variety they can get from chocolate beans is amazing. If you ever have a chance to go into one of their stores, it's amazing. Certainly one of the top chocolatiers in the world, if not the best, but they only make dark chocolate.
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But if the opportunity to visit Dandelion ever presents itself, we will check it out!