Author Archives: CCBerries
Ethics in the gift industry?
Ethics in the gift industry? If a few weeks Valentine’s Day will be upon us, and a good portion of the country will be doing something for their special someone. Today we’ll look at two types of situations, one where the public thinks something is wrong and others where something is actually wrong.
Posted in Chocolate History & News, Ordering Tips
Tagged california, easy saver, florida, free shipping, growers, proflowers, scam, shari, unethical, valentine's
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Beef that’s not Beef and more
One of today’s top headlines is the lawsuit brought against Taco Bell for not meeting the minimum requirements for their “Beef” to be called “Beef”. (news story ) Most of the public does not know that parts of the government make rules for what is allowed to be called certain names. The lawsuit was filed [...]
Posted in Chocolate History & News, Ordering Tips
Tagged beef, Chocolate, dark chocolate, fda, flavored, milk chocolate, taco bell, valentine's, white chocolate
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Saving on Valentines purchases.
Saving on Valentine’s purchases. We often get asked how to save on shipments throughout the year.
Posted in Chocolate How to, Ordering Tips
Tagged cheep, chocolate covered strawberries, coupon, delivery, roses, save, valentine's, wholesale
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Religious Intolerance in the Confectionary Industry?
In previous blog entries we covered fake chocolate and companies whose customers are saying their credit card information was shared without permission (resulting in unauthorized monthly charges). Counterfeit products, false advertizing claims and credit card scams are things the public hears about every day, but as we was researching the many online complaints about Edible Arrangements we [...]
Posted in Chocolate History & News
Tagged dippedfruit.com, edible arangements, fake chocolate, intolerance, muslim, ordering
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Smart Christmas Shipping
What’s is the smartest thing to do? It’s pretty simple:
Posted in Ordering Tips
Tagged chocolate covered strawberries, delivery, ordering, shipping, tips
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How to Flavor and Color Chocolate
Last year we covered how to temper chocolate and when to temper chocolate and today someone asked us how to flavor and color chocolate.
Posted in Chocolate How to, Recipes (all types)
Tagged Chocolate, cocoa butter, coloring, flavoring
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So what the heck is Sweetest Day?
Many people have never heard of it, but it has been around for about 90 years.. So what the heck is Sweetest day?
Hey, That’s not Chocolate
Ever wonder why that chocolate you ate didn’t quite taste right? Maybe it tasted greasy, maybe it tasted like wax… Chances are it was not really chocolate.
All about shipping flowers.
Sophisticated customers know that we don’t just throw a bunch of flowers in a box, but you might not know what lengths we go to in order to protect the flowers in transit.
Proposed Call Center Law
Proposed law: telling you when your call has been routed to a call center outside the US.
