There's a fun shop in the UK called Cybercandy. It has candy, chocolate, and other sweets and snacks from around the world. It's a good place to go to buy Milk Duds, Twinkies, Cherry Vanilla Dr Pepper, Cadbury's Cherry Ripe, the very-much-an-aquired-taste salty liquorice, Swedish Fish (hooray, no gelatine!), or - should you wish - Double Choco Collons (disturbing on many levels). Or ant chocolate, scorpion lollipops - all that novelty crap that gets bought for gifts and that no one ever actually eats (surely?). 

I've drawn a few conclusions from this place: 
- Australian chocolate manufacturers come up with some great novelty ideas that actually taste nice (Pods! How great are they?). 
- Japanese sweets seem to consist entirely of Pockys and Hello Kitty. 
- American candy and fizzy drinks are great, but their chocolate sucks.
- Squirrel Nut Zippers are mysterious and wonderful, but unfortunately never in stock.
- No one in their right mind wants to drink coffee that's been previously digested by weasels. However, tea that's been hand-picked by trained monkeys... yes.

I went there this weekend, and was thrilled to find the Lava Bar: the world's first liquid chocolate bar. Ooh! Bought one immediately. Sat down to enjoy. And realised that a) it's chocolate sauce in a packet, b) it's therefore hugely overpriced (£1.99 for 75g), and c) to add insult to injury, it's not even all that nice. I have eaten better chocolate sauce. Hell, I have made better - and could again, right now, with ingredients in my kitchen at this very moment (good chocolate, cream, sugar). D'oh.

Still - liquid chocolate bar. I'm still slightly excited by the idea.

(I'm off sick today, so please forgive me if I'm talking nonsense.)