Homemade coconut allspice diamonds from co-worker. Mmmmmmmm...cookie itself is like a shortbread. Very buttery and flaky.

LAST of the sugar for me for a while, I need a detox! Been sluggish. July sucked. Starting over now that it's over. EVERYTHING IS AWESOME!!

Pussy Kitty

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Chocolate sticks

A couple of weeks ago The Man and I were coming back from Hollywood on a rather frustrating night and stopped to get gas. I decided I needed chocolate and headed inside. To my surprise I discovered this gas station (somewhere near Santa Monica and La Cienega) carried Fling! I love Fling! I had meant to write about it months ago when I first had one (all completely unsolicited by the way. Fling, or it creator Mars has never sent me anything or asked my opinion on their product. I just have to tell you about random crap like the different types of sugar I consume in ever growing quantities.) , but then I ate it before I could take pictures, then that happened again the next time I bought one, then I gave up figuring I was a gluttonous slave to chocolate and forgot all about the whole thing.

Enter gas station with Fling bar.

Looking over the shelves I noticed the 3 Musketeers Truffle Crisp Bar, it looked like the same thing. I had to get both, damnit and compare them. Since I was feeling lazy and there was no way I was gonna work on taking decent photos I also had to buy chocolate that I could eat then, it was a peanut butter Twix, had them before, love them, highly recommended (told you I was a glutton).

Fling is really good, and really...girly. That was what I first noticed, it looks, girly. It's got cute bright pink packaging, it's slender and shiny, and at 85 calories a stick it's supposed to let you indulge in chocolate while keeping you...slender and shiny. Flings has a creamy chocolate truffle layer on top of a "subtle crisp layer" (no one explains what this crisp layer is,  but it tastes like chalky Violet Crumble. It's sweet and has a great snap to it but it's not real clear what it's made of), then the whole thing is covered in chocolate and the best part? It's covered in rose colored Luster Dust! It's so, cute!

                                           (^^^Fling ^^^ can you see the shimmer? it was kinda hard to capture on film)
The 3 Musketeers Truffle Crisp Bar is almost EXACTLY the same, same calories, same truffle layer on top of mysterious "crisp layer", covered in chocolate, made by the SAME COMPANY! But, not cute shimmery luster dust. Oh well. So, how does it taste?

Side by side, the 3 Musketeers is WAY better!
The Fling had a better snap to it, firmer truffle layer, was a little wider and flatter, and had that great shimmer. But, it was...Fake. It tasted, stale. And in it's defense maybe it was...but...3 Musketeers was creamier, a little more slender of a bar but thicker, softer truffle that melted in your mouth. I missed the crisper snap of the Fling but, 3 Musketeers tasted so much fresher. I like the cute packaging of Fling, but I don't really require a gender specific candy bar. I will definitely buy the 3 Musketeers again. Have you tried either? What did you think?