Top Four 37: Valentine's Chocolate Boxes
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hi everybody welcome to a new episode of
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top 4 this is our special Valentine's
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Day love episode anyway so um I thought
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we should go back to eating things
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because why not I mean we we are pretty
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good at it I mean yeah we are all right
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and nothing says Valentine's Day more
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than cheesy heart-shaped boxes of
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chocolates so my idea originally was to
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go pick up one of the you know Russell
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Stover is whatever brand you know the
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big heart-shaped box and we sampled the
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different flavors and rank the flavors
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that are inside the box well when we
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went to the grocery store today we saw
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that there were many types of boxes and
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Marco thought you know what
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we should buy all of them of course so
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yeah as usual we have in our head to to
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rank some kind of food thing we arrive
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we arrive at the food location and
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realize there are way too many choices
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and rather than cut back the ambition of
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what we were doing we just bought all of
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them you know and we're working through
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these you know individual chocolates
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themselves you know that everyone's
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preferences vary and everything I think
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it will be more productive instead of
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trying to rank the individual flavors of
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the chocolates to rank of the boxes
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themselves like which brand box of
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chocolates should you get is it the
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Russell Stover's is it the Dove is it
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the other one like you know that we have
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all these all these different brands and
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different tiers within the brands like
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Russell Stover's makes like nine
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different options yeah but I'm pretty
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sure inside it's all the same but
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basically if you haven't seen these
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heart-shaped boxes it's pretty much the
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heart-shaped box that a you know
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thirteen year old would give to the
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lover of their choice in school so yeah
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have you ever actually gotten one of
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these as a gift do men receive them
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usually I not I don't know I've never
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far as I know I've never gotten one as a
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gift I've given one or two I think to
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like high school girlfriends because
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they're super cheesy like okay so we got
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two different ruffle Russell Stover's
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boxes one is um wrapped in this red
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cellophane it's the same like like if
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you buy a Christmas cactus
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like the the pot is wrapped in that yeah
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yeah yeah yeah like a poinsettia yeah
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yeah and then we also got the Russell
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Stover's elegant collection and that's
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in kind of a red velvet box there was
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also the same collection you could have
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the lace black lace variety so I guess
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depending on what you want to say and
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was that one that came with the American
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flag and military camo oh no that was
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another Russell Stover his one yes there
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was an American flag and camouflage were
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a military like the digital America yeah
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so you know if your lover is into that
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then that's the box you get we also have
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a dove which is in kind of a nice tin in
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it's an unconventional heart shape it's
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kind of like a sushi heart like a it's
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like if you it's like the italics
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version of a heart it's like if you blew
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a bubble of the heart or if the heart
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was melting slightly yeah or a melted
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heart okay melting or italics or a
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bubble heart then we also have a much
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more any kind of pink and red striped
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standard heart box with a gold bow and
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that's by Hershey's it's called pot of
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gold and then the piece de resistance
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which looks like an old lady's sofa
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living room cushion more than the
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Russell Stover premium velvet one yeah
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because this has like the satin bow with
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the with the roses that are all curled
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up the ribbon roses on the front and
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it's all padded so it's really funny
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it's the white man sampler that's
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pronounced I believe so I think it's
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missing an e oh yes I'm sorry the
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Whitman's Wow all right so cheesy it's
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the one yeah I mean I got to say like
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there Russell Stover velvet one though I
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mean that's that's really something like
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I was like I was like heading it in this
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store like we should get this I reached
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over to get it that's why we got it so
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you could pet it this is kind of a night
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spot it feels really good yeah I think
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collection if I was to receive one of
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these I would probably want to receive
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that one from their Private Reserve of
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chocolates actually has it says a
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decadent nineteen piece Private Reserve
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chocolate assortment now
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what is that what does Private Reserve
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really mean for Russell Stover's Brando
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maybe they used a little bit extra cocoa
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in some of them because all right
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everybody make their Private Reserve
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until they ship out of the factory I
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don't know what's the regular Wednesday
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he doesn't say Private Reserve
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it just says fine chocolates handcrafted
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in small batches but they both were
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there both handcrafted in small batches
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I especially love that there's so much
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small batches there's so much of this
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chocolate there's no way this is a small
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badge yeah I think maybe small is a
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relative term relative to the entire
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output of the Hershey's corporation like
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maybe I don't know that our Russell
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Stover is part of Hershey's I don't know
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just guessing but yeah cuz they have a
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different box this one's made in America
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that's why it had the American flag oh
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one of the problems with the Russell
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Stover is that the one with the red
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poinsettia wrapping around it is that
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you can't see the labeling on the back
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so you can't see like ingredient lists
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or like anything about it yeah there's
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nothing the red film around it is so
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tall just has a big sticker that says
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assorted well that's okay isn't alright
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I'm gonna open this up alright so we're
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starting out with the Russell Stover's
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yeah this is like oh the box is even
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better okay so after you remove the
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layer of fresh red red colored trash
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then you kind of have like a shiny what
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would you call this it's like a no like
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glossy cardboard right yeah yeah like
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kind of metallic looking board with an
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embossed rose on it so there we go oh
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okay I gotta say it looks really nice
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when you open it up like the
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presentation of all those chocolates is
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really nice as Mel's good it smells like
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a valentine's job it does it smells like
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found hoods do we have any kind of key
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oh we do oh thank god
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okay they have some sort of key here so
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we have all kinds of different things
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like peanut butter crunch maple nut
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okay there's lots of maple nut butter
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coconut cream orange cream yeah it just
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kind of repeats so we can shout out to
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any chocolate maker that gives you a map
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or a key of what's what so you don't
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have to use guess based on how they look
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that is a huge wonderful feature
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advancement that as far as I know when
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we were younger didn't seem to be done
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seems a lot more common and anybody who
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does that gets extra points in my book
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because as somebody who occasionally
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likes to eat such things I always like
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to know what I'm getting beforehand cuz
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like I'm you know I'm an adult I'm not
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gonna have a million chocolates unless
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I'm doing a podcast about eating
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chocolates and you know in other cases
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like I only want to have like one or two
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and so I want those to be really good
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flavors that I actually really enjoy if
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I'm only gonna have one or two I don't
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want one of them to be like coconut or
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one of those like big gross cherry
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liquid bomb hey now I love both of those
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things differently but we're not ranking
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the chocolates we're putting these boxes
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against each other yes okay so let me
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can I see the map or the flavor key
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whatever it is what's Roman nougat I
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don't know I know what nougat is I know
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what Rome is I don't know what Roman
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nougat is anyway I'm gonna go for the
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maple nut butter alright first
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appearance it is defective oh wait
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there's maple nut butter and there's
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also maple in a cream which one do you
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Oh creme maple nut cream is the one in
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the very center right about 12 o'clock
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the maple nut butter one is defective
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and oozing out well that's pretty big
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strike again for us to like what does it
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say about your relationship or your
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intense with somebody if you give them a
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box of defective Valentine's chocolates
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I mean it's not really your fault
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it's it's not your fault if it's
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defective but I guess is it then you
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sprung for like the cheap one no fault
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but it is your problem
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is your problem Russell Stover did had
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the biggest box available that's true
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yeah we didn't get the app we got the
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second biggest box we got the one that
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was like fifteen dollars instead of 20
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all right the maple one doesn't taste
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very good alright I will try I love
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peanut butter but I don't know how
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common that's going to be maybe I'll try
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out the vanilla cream that's that's nice
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and basic yeah I'd try that this is
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impressively mediocre like it's just
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like cheap basic after eating one of
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these I would never in a million years
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think I would like another one of those
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okay I've gone I've gone ahead I have
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taken bites have a lot of these
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chocolates already haha just kind of
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plowed through I'm gonna go for a peanut
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butter crunch because in general the
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fillings don't seem to matter much I
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mean it changes the taste slightly but
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it's not extremely great chocolate
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but I'm curious I think we should put
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this directly against their private
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reserve I agree yeah this yeah the the
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regular Russell Stover I give it a
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thumbs down really it's really like just
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like cheap bland yeah it's very romantic
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to open no I could I could take off the
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velvet box also has a key it's covered
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in chocolate for freshness okay the
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little um the chocolate paper guard this
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one is dark brown with gold writing Yeti
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so the the interior like plastic like
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kind of rack that holds them all in is
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shinier and that there are there are
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fewer larger chocolate pieces in this
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one and they are much more fancily
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finished with different like colors and
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like icing squiggles on the outside and
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so yeah it's definitely it's visually a
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noticeable step up I would say generally
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you know assuming that these turns to be
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better if you're giving a gift for
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somebody like this I think a a smaller
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box of better chocolates it's probably a
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oh absolutely big box of the cheap ones
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alright let's see if we have any common
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flavors oh no we have like Oh some of
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the I don't I don't even know these
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words I think they were French they're
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in French to be fancy oh really
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I don't know do we get like the wrong
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sheet the wrong key does a key count for
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bonus points if you can't okay
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so there I think they gave them all like
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weird names so that they sound fancier
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okay so the signature almond cream
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all right that's that's Collazo
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raspberry cordial the monogram almond
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that's all you I know when I speak
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French I don't even know what that
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saying alright which one is the Sigma
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cream creston refined hazelnut praline
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ooh I do like the Monaco raspberry
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caramel look at these names I want to
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try the the almond one signature almond
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cream right there in the middle did you
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seriously get yourself water and not me
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you one way street in the water oh I
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think I might as well make carried in
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the water this is our romantic episode
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and you don't even get me water let me
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try this than I'll get Susan this is the
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signature almond cream from the Russell
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Stover elegant collection Private
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there's curdled what happened in here
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yes it isn't a smooth cream it's it's
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I wouldn't say kernel I just say badly
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made the chocolate is a little bit
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better it's better than the base Russell
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Stover thank for sure okay this one's a
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grainy - this is the mocha cream let's
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see say that word say the word above
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mocha cream I think it's Amalfi I'm
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trying the hazelnut praline which is in
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the shape of a giant hazelnut kind of
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nice okay so the flavors are a lot more
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nuanced than the standard Russell Stover
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chocolates a little bit better so that
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but in general it's still not really
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really great chocolate I've had much
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better chocolate yeah I really enjoy the
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flavors in this one but the like they're
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very they're pretty heavy-handed on the
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flavors like they kind of hit you over
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the head like the hazelnut one tastes a
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lot like artificial hazelnut flavoring
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and not a lot like actual like good
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refined hazelnut flavor
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these are definitely better than the
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base Russell Stover and I would way
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rather have this box then than the basic
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roasted over box for sure but yeah I'm
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not sure this earns its Private Reserve
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designation and velvet box
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I think the velvety box cover is nicer
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than I just tried the coconut cream it
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was really good on the chart which one
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is that oh I'd really like some of that
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water looks really good you're drinking
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chocolates where's this coconut cream
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one and it from the Private Reserve one
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further and there's a lemon - I ate half
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of it this is labelled the Kon lemon
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souffle all right I'm gonna preemptively
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say I think this box might be the best
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out of all the boxes I don't have high
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hopes for the others the lemon and
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coconut that I just tried they're both
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good they're not great they're good I
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they're both again very very like heavy
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hand like hit you in the face flavors
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like the lemon cream was very very
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strong and very very sweet the coconut
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was like really like intense and the
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flavoring so if you like very intense
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like fillings and creams this is a
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decent pick so far this at least feels
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like you're eating something special ish
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yeah yeah like the basic four also
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Stauber box it just tastes like gift
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basket chocolate that's been like
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sitting in a gift basket warehouse for
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six years and it looks like gift basket
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chocolate there's nothing it's all just
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so monotone I mean they have a dark and
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a light chocolate and the original
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Russell Stover's ones but it's not
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anything special the shapes are kind of
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like mmm yeah kind of like poured a
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little sloppily the Private Reserve ones
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appear to have come out of a mold or
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they've been dipped in a special way so
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they're a little bit smoother yeah they
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still seem mass manufactured there's
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some white chocolate involved in them so
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yeah like they're there it is a
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noticeable step up and I think it was
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like five dollars more it was not a big
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price difference so I would say no
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question go for those even the plastic
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that's in between them is a little nicer
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exactly all right what's our next box
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we have the Hershey's pot of gold but
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it's not a pot it's shaped like a heart
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box it's a heart of gold why do why
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wouldn't they say heart of gold missed
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opportunity totally missed opportunities
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I think they're just trying to double up
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on their marketing for st. Patty's Day
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and Valentine's Day big ears like didn't
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want to change the template when they
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yeah they got the labels printed they
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just put the card on here let's change
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the color okay now this one has the key
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printed on the underside of the box it
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doesn't have a special little paper like
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the Russell Stover's did well I see I
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respect that move because then you can't
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lose the key oh that is a good point you
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know it's like if you still have the box
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which you almost certainly will cuz
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that's how these are eaten then you have
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the key yes that's nice after taking off
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the layer of garbage yes I mean that
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really the first rows disturber with
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with the point set of wrapping that was
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like clearly wrapping garber you throw
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these are just like you know excusable
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amounts of plastic wrap okay so these
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are a lot fancier these are definitely
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poured molded chocolates they have some
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striations of different colors they have
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colors of the chocolate they have some
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swirl patterns that are nice that
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definitely look like they came out of a
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mold they're much prettier and the
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plastic around them although thin is
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also styled nicely the only thing that I
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would that I would call them out for is
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that they are very monochromatic
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compared to the private the private
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reserved ones there's enough use of
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white chocolate here and there but
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either as like a zigzag icing or as the
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base layer for some of them that you get
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a nice like you know mostly brown with
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like spots of white and stripes look
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from the Private Reserve whereas this
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one it's just all brown so it's like I
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►
could use a little a little bit more
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visual variety on this one although I
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suppose Hershey's is known for their
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brown chocolates because it can't be
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that's a price but still a little bit of
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white chocolate even like some white
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chocolate drizzle just makes the
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chocolate look a little bit more special
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this is Valentine's Day after all yeah
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all right so let's see the key what what
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kind of flavors do we have like kind of
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like a fancy name for usual stuff for
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dark chocolate truffle almond cream milk
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chocolate truffle let me see the almond
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cream where's Carmen oh there's a pecan
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caramel cluster so like a turtle I guess
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►
but yeah there's not a lot of variety in
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here it repeats a lot
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►
the Russell Stover has more variety in
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both the Private Reserve and
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regular box but this her she's one does
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►
not have tons of variety going for the
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►
caramel and almonds option Hershey's
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►
chocolate tastes like nothing to me
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►
it always does the caramel and almonds
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►
option literally looks like a Snickers
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►
bar is the vanilla caramel just tastes
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►
like caramel here I tried the almond
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creamy but it didn't maybe that's better
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►
yeah the chocolate the Hershey's
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►
chocolate is just like it's just like
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hard crunchy nothing like there's no
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there's no depth of flavor there's no
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flavor to it whatsoever it's literally
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►
like eating I don't even know it's just
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►
it's holding together the filling
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►
there's nothing going on outside it
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►
doesn't add to it at all
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►
well that tastes like nothing yeah the
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►
almond cream is all is similarly like
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you don't say the cream tastes like
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►
nothing it's very it's very like hard it
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almost looks like styrofoam when you
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►
bite into it like there's no flowing of
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►
the cream it's like it just like a very
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like dry dense like you know you bite
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►
through it and it you get a perfect
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►
slice right there yeah I rather have the
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over flavored almond cream
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yeah and that whatever that was I feel a
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the Hershey's she's like I feel like I'm
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►
not eating much of anything yeah doesn't
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►
feel like a thumbs down for the hers it
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►
doesn't feel worth it yeah it's I would
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►
say the Hershey's it might I would we'll
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►
see we'll see how he into breaking them
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►
I think I might rank it slightly above
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►
the base line Russell Stover's but it's
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certainly in the ballpark of the same
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►
thing and so much of it is caramels like
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►
it's just caramels over and over yeah
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►
thumbs down this is supposed to be their
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►
variety box no you know they're their
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►
box with their box was pretty on the
◼
►
outside much more modern and the visuals
◼
►
of the chocolate are better than the
◼
►
original Russell Stover's but man they
◼
►
fail on taste agreed alright next I'm
◼
►
gonna open up the dev this is like a
◼
►
hard hard tin situation remove the layer
◼
►
of garbage and bow now this one also
◼
►
doesn't advertise much variety ah
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►
oh man the ribbons not even all the way
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►
around it's like fake glued to the cover
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►
that's hilarious day they couldn't maybe
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►
the rest of the ribbon that goes around
◼
►
the back of the lid Wow
◼
►
alright this essentially has creamy
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►
caramel caramels dark chocolate peanut
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►
butter truffle hearts and dark chocolate
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►
truffle hearts that's it
◼
►
it's only those like so at least of
◼
►
those four flavors in the tag it's only
◼
►
those though yeah but it says assorted
◼
►
chocolate so it only has three varieties
◼
►
of a sordidness yeah there's the tin
◼
►
situation I guess you could reuse that
◼
►
if you're a weirdo I think the the
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►
minimum number of distinct flavors for
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►
it to qualify as assorted should
◼
►
probably be something like six or eight
◼
►
yeah I don't think for qualified so we
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►
got stuff branding all over it it is
◼
►
nice that the tag has a two from on the
◼
►
other side so you can make this really
◼
►
gift tastic very minimal effort should
◼
►
when you are sieving one of these should
◼
►
should you need to label it or should it
◼
►
be obvious to the recipient who its
◼
►
affirming isn't it kind of a problem if
◼
►
they don't if they can't remember or
◼
►
don't know there appears to be no guide
◼
►
as to what these are is it just like the
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►
tag that has the guide oh yeah actually
◼
►
it is the tag that has the guide the
◼
►
plastic that they're all sitting in is
◼
►
clear so that's kind of nice and then
◼
►
this is a little cheesy you lift up the
◼
►
chocolate and underneath there's a nice
◼
►
little saying laughs often dove live
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►
passionately dove just seemed create
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►
passion dove we all love the small
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►
things dove a look a smile a touch it's
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►
just the same company as the soap or is
◼
►
that a different dog I don't know be
◼
►
mine dove that seems kind of weird for a
◼
►
company being it to be known for soap
◼
►
and chocolate here's a fail this heart
◼
►
isn't in its little pocket in the right
◼
►
direction share a secret now let me try
◼
►
the milk chocolate peanut butter truffle
◼
►
which is the light colored heart all
◼
►
right I'm trying to tidy up here a
◼
►
little bit and the Russell Stover box
◼
►
already broke so the Dove one to me the
◼
►
fillings are a little bit boring but the
◼
►
chocolate is significantly better than
◼
►
the other ones that we've had so far the
◼
►
peanut butter doesn't taste very good
◼
►
it's fine it's not it's not amazing the
◼
►
the the caramel was better it is
◼
►
unfortunate that there are literally
◼
►
only three only three varieties here I
◼
►
would like more than that
◼
►
but the chocolate itself I would say is
◼
►
very nice I think very is a very strong
◼
►
I wouldn't say that relatively nice okay
◼
►
it's the nicest chocolate itself that
◼
►
we've had so far I don't know I think I
◼
►
like the Private Reserve better but I
◼
►
think maybe ice because the feelings are
◼
►
more interesting yeah the dove just does
◼
►
not you might as well just get a bag of
◼
►
yeah the dove one like the chocolate is
◼
►
great but for the purposes of a
◼
►
Valentine's box of chocolates unless you
◼
►
know that the person only likes these
◼
►
three very basic flavors I love
◼
►
chocolate yeah and then you need to
◼
►
teach those people that they need to
◼
►
like better chocolate and get them
◼
►
something good from like a chocolate
◼
►
place yeah these are good but they're
◼
►
not particularly memorable the chocolate
◼
►
is very nice the fillings are just
◼
►
really boring yeah and again and I
◼
►
really want more variety than three
◼
►
flavors out of a box like this this is
◼
►
um oh this this franking is going to be
◼
►
like I think maybe one clear winner and
◼
►
the rest just I I'm forming some some
◼
►
rankings in my head alright is that it
◼
►
or is there one more there is one more
◼
►
that's what the white man chocolate yeah
◼
►
right mm-hmm all right let's see let's
◼
►
see that one when you put away this
◼
►
heart tin put on this pile of other art
◼
►
I'm keeping the Private Reserve near me
◼
►
this funny that's the only one that's
◼
►
been really great there's not even great
◼
►
just like less correct I think if you
◼
►
were to purchase a heart-shaped box of
◼
►
chocolate for your lover on Valentine's
◼
►
I think that so far that's gonna be my
◼
►
choice oh yeah it's so it's my it's
◼
►
definitely my number one and it comes in
◼
►
the black lace variety which is very
◼
►
nice that was a little weird but the
◼
►
soft velvet box you know you can like
◼
►
use that as a pillow afterwards oh this
◼
►
one is like alright so it's the white
◼
►
man sampler I can't quite get the cover
◼
►
off oh it's taped on there's like a few
◼
►
spots of taper on the this is basically
◼
►
grandma chocolate and grandmas are great
◼
►
maybe they like this chocolate they
◼
►
could always use some tape yep
◼
►
even the box is kind of like this red
◼
►
crisps like dated fifties Christmas
◼
►
color yeah it's definitely it's a very
◼
►
dated look for sure yeah basically
◼
►
like it's a made of dress remnants from
◼
►
the 1950s all right very similar okay
◼
►
the white man key and the Russell Stover
◼
►
key is basically identical let me see
◼
►
that do you think maybe it's the same
◼
►
company and is just like a different
◼
►
we'll have to inspect it's it does look
◼
►
identically printed really similar yeah
◼
►
well this is suspicious because it looks
◼
►
very simple it's just like it alright so
◼
►
let's see so what other white man
◼
►
chocolate with flavors that we have here
◼
►
whoa okay opening this up it has gold
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►
plastic around it not really much color
◼
►
variety but still better than the
◼
►
Russell Stover's and they have very
◼
►
different types of chocolates in here
◼
►
you have some like chocolate-covered
◼
►
almonds and chocolate-covered it looks
◼
►
like they might be raisins they have
◼
►
there's a fruit and nut caramel there's
◼
►
a there's cherry cordial there's one in
◼
►
the middle called milk chocolate
◼
►
messenger boy which is a little scary
◼
►
yep there's a boy on it yeah chocolate
◼
►
buttercream is that a post made it sound
◼
►
like the original post made me I think
◼
►
it supposed to meet but maybe it's also
◼
►
Whitman all right you mean it's not it's
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►
not the white it's not wearing it post
◼
►
mate so close all right there's a lot to
◼
►
choose from here I think I might try the
◼
►
let's see maybe among lasses choo a
◼
►
peanut butter cream well I got to try
◼
►
almond cream to be consistent it passed
◼
►
me the Russell Stover
◼
►
because they have some sort of like cup
◼
►
cluster thing in here - yeah I'm gonna
◼
►
compare those oh my gosh oh very hard
◼
►
the Russell Stover ones very hard yeah
◼
►
alright let's not open this box anymore
◼
►
you know they passed me them the Whitman
◼
►
as you say this ruffles the whore box
◼
►
every time I open it's falling apart
◼
►
even more it's structural integrity is
◼
►
just shot the women's are very chewy
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►
like there's a lot a lot of like thick
◼
►
sticky fillings I tried like three or
◼
►
four of them so far oh my god I bit into
◼
►
the cherry cordial and there is just
◼
►
kind of this neon your hands are red and
◼
►
you tripped on your pants oh gosh I mean
◼
►
it's everywhere you should go on the
◼
►
floor oh god no I don't want the dog to
◼
►
get it why is this so pink it's it it
◼
►
looks like I spilled ink on my hands
◼
►
it really does yeah why is it this color
◼
►
it's a scary amount of dye oh can you
◼
►
get my headphones off all right so while
◼
►
two free covers from that yeah the the
◼
►
so far the Whitman's is the flavors some
◼
►
of the flavors are actually pretty good
◼
►
but each one of them has some kind of
◼
►
weird execution like the filling is too
◼
►
stiff and sticky or like the almond
◼
►
cream had a really good almond flavor
◼
►
but there was also like a raw dry almond
◼
►
in there you'd like get through this dry
◼
►
almond and it'll otherwise good cream
◼
►
the little peanuts were equally dry yeah
◼
►
everything's very dry and chewy but okay
◼
►
I think that this box was actually made
◼
►
in 1950 mm-hmm but all right so my
◼
►
theory is that this box appeals to older
◼
►
people of a certain generation where
◼
►
don't have dentures because if they did
◼
►
they would rip right out but so with the
◼
►
decor on the box and the gold gaudy
◼
►
decor inside and the dryness and the the
◼
►
types of flavors and the little post-boy
◼
►
on there it's really making me think
◼
►
that this is a I don't know either
◼
►
extremely dated and and the white man
◼
►
company does not understand modern times
◼
►
or it's just made to appeal to people of
◼
►
a certain age that would find this good
◼
►
people who have mistreated as white man
◼
►
I think that's a feature on a bug
◼
►
yeah I'm thinking this is very I don't
◼
►
know because it's it's definitely not
◼
►
quirky nostalgic it's just a little bit
◼
►
sad nostalgic is definitely the
◼
►
chocolate that you would have bought a
◼
►
years ago and it would have been great
◼
►
because it would have been the only ones
◼
►
that you had but now we have others so
◼
►
I'm thinking not with this one yeah I I
◼
►
do like the flavorings of it better than
◼
►
the cheap Russell servers oh I don't
◼
►
know because have you did you retry the
◼
►
cheaper stores like after trading rooms
◼
►
try it again it's it's surprisingly
◼
►
crappy mmm well let me see the chart for
◼
►
the Russell Stover cuz I feel like at
◼
►
least their flavors are a little bit
◼
►
better like maple nut cream butter cream
◼
►
caramel where's the Whitman chocolates
◼
►
you just have like oh wait maple nut
◼
►
cream butter cream really the the
◼
►
Russell Stover standard one every flavor
◼
►
I've tried has been disappointing in
◼
►
pretty big ways the Whitman some of
◼
►
those actually tasted a lot better they
◼
►
the Whitman ones are worse better are
◼
►
they Russell Stover just tastes like
◼
►
garbage plastic and sugar like it's just
◼
►
there's no refinement there like there's
◼
►
nothing really you know smooth or
◼
►
decadent or advanced about them at all
◼
►
whereas the the Whitman one there's at
◼
►
least like somewhat like every one of
◼
►
those bites like oh this is kind of nice
◼
►
oh except for that dry part but like
◼
►
before before the dry part it was pretty
◼
►
like I so I think my ranking I think I'm
◼
►
pretty good on my ranking I think I'm
◼
►
um wait can you open up the Hershey's
◼
►
again it's kind of got a pic which least
◼
►
bad I do enjoy the care that was put
◼
►
into creating those chocolates the
◼
►
Hershey's ones yeah compared to the
◼
►
regular Russell Stover box
◼
►
alright well my number one easily is the
◼
►
Russell Stover Private Reserve the
◼
►
limited limited batch limited edition
◼
►
what was the official name of it and
◼
►
under that it's a private reserve the
◼
►
Russell Stover is in the velvet box that
◼
►
was definitely the best out of this
◼
►
showing although I got to say it like if
◼
►
you have anywhere near you like a nice
◼
►
like fancy cause a fancy chocolate shop
◼
►
yeah like a chocolatier oh yeah like if
◼
►
you have some point that near you
◼
►
chances are whatever you get from them
◼
►
would probably be more expensive but
◼
►
would also be a lot better even than
◼
►
this Private Reserve one that said the
◼
►
private ruler won for I think it was 15
◼
►
books that's that's pretty good for that
◼
►
and we did just go down to our local
◼
►
grocery store two days before
◼
►
Valentine's Day and we got to pick up
◼
►
everything was in stock so we just kind
◼
►
of picked up a box of everything um so
◼
►
it is all available so that's a benefit
◼
►
yeah yeah it's easy to get you know it's
◼
►
gonna be available everywhere so yeah
◼
►
Russell Stover Velda box
◼
►
Private Limited Edition reserve whatever
◼
►
it is that's the best for me yeah me
◼
►
it's my number one as well
◼
►
my number two I think would be the dove
◼
►
because even though I wanted more
◼
►
variety out of it and the and the
◼
►
fillings were boring the chocolate was
◼
►
pretty nice my number three is gonna be
◼
►
the white man Whitman whatever it is
◼
►
because again that the flavors were good
◼
►
even the executions was pretty bad on
◼
►
those and then my number four is going
◼
►
to be the her she's nowhere on my list
◼
►
is gonna be the Russell Stover basic box
◼
►
that I never want to eat those again but
◼
►
the Hershey's one is you know just
◼
►
crappy chocolate but decent fillings but
◼
►
mostly they just seem like candy bars
◼
►
but ultimately a if if the show was not
◼
►
called top four I wouldn't have even had
◼
►
a number four not that it stopped me a
◼
►
lot in the past but like like I dislike
◼
►
the Hershey's almost as much as I
◼
►
dislike the the basic Russell Stover if
◼
►
I was going with the typical top four
◼
►
I would only pick the Russell Stouffer's
◼
►
Private Reserve to put on my list at all
◼
►
anywhere because M everything else is
◼
►
just there's so much wrong with so many
◼
►
the other ones that it's really hard but
◼
►
guess if I had to rank them I would put
◼
►
Hershey's second hmm I would put the
◼
►
Dove third because they're just so
◼
►
and oh it's just such a toss-up between
◼
►
what's bad between them Russell Stover
◼
►
regular and the Whitman's the Whitman's
◼
►
just feel I don't know they're just too
◼
►
chewy nuts like I don't like a lot of
◼
►
there's too much nut happening it's a
◼
►
fair criticism of them I'd say in the
◼
►
Whitman chocolate so I will put the
◼
►
Russell Stover regular as my fourth
◼
►
choice just because they're more cream
◼
►
and that's the chocolate I prefer but
◼
►
the creams like have you tried it but
◼
►
they're so ugly did you throw the
◼
►
strawberry cream it's awful yeah no I
◼
►
it's my fourth it doesn't there was only
◼
►
five boxes and yeah this this Whitman
◼
►
sampler man this is this is special
◼
►
listen to a hat well we'll try to get
◼
►
this episode out fast enough so that you
◼
►
all can go out there and buy the Russell
◼
►
Simmons what is it just go out buy the
◼
►
Russell Simmons private velvet box yep
◼
►
avoid the white man and yeah but if you
◼
►
have a neighborhood chocolatier go to
◼
►
them and sticks it's gonna be way better
◼
►
than one yeah you see is a shop local
◼
►
yeah and happy Valentine's Day I'm not
◼
►
feeling very romantic right now no let's
◼
►
let's go have something better like ice
◼
►
cream or better chocolate no no more
◼
►
sweets but ice cream who are you here
◼
►
husband coffee yeah that sounds nice
◼
►
let's go for a cuddle