Chocolate's Best Friends

While you can't go wrong with solid milk, dark, or white chocolate, most of the time if people are eating chocolate, they're eating it with something else. What chocolate is mixed with could make all the difference in taste.

I'll eat anything if it's covered in chocolate. Although, here are my top three favorite chocolate companions:

1. Strawberries - Godiva Chocolatier gets the award for best Chocolate Dipped Strawberries. They fly in huge HUGE berries from California and dip them fresh. But eat 'em quick; these fresh berries only last 24 hours before going bad (if you can wait that long).

2. Almonds - Landies Candies in Buffalo, NY gets this award for their dark chocolate bar with almonds the size of the "return" key on your keyboard. Very good.

3. Caramel - Once again the award goes to Godiva for the Dark Caramel Embrace. Gooey or chewy doesn't matter. I like the dark caramel because it's not too sweet for a normal vanilla caramel. It's chocolate caramel wrapped in dark chocolate. Perfect texture, perfect taste.

Rounding out the top ten would have to be peanut butter, pretzels, toffee, raspberry, rice krispy treats, coffee, and hazelnut.

Did I miss any? Leave a comment with your favorite chocolate companion. Who's hungry?