Once in a while, we wish we could eat our video games consoles and accessories when we were hungry (or when the pizza man has lost his way). The Wii remote chocolate bar may not fill your empty stomach but its fine details that match the real thing is nothing to be sniffed at.

$7 a pop from Digital Chocolates.
Via: Techchee
Image: Digital Chocolates

It’s a little late in the game, but this article from real beer provides additional inspiration for the consumption of beer and chocolate during this most chocolaty of holidays. If you’re staying in, go ahead and make the chocolate stout brownies I reported on earlier in the week, and have a good Valentine’s.

Remember those advent calendars you got as a kid (and which I have yet to buy for my kids this year, bad parent that I am)? The ones with twenty-four little doors, each of which hid a small toy or (more frequently) a piece of chocolate?
Well, the beer lover’s version is trying a new beer for each of the 24 days of Christmas. If you, like me, are more likely to live that particular advent’s dream vicariously, check out this beer advent calendar from the brewsite.

There are a lot of blog contests in our food channel, but many of them don’t lend themselves to beer. One which does, and which is quite timely coming as it does after Halloween and before Thanksgiving, is this one from choclatebytes. And the question is … drumroll please … what chocolate product are you thankful for?
So easy, that one, it’s chocolate stout. Many chocolate stouts, such as Brooklyn’s Black Chocolate Stout, carry that moniker not because they contain chocolate, but because they use a dark malt which resembles chocolate. More sophisticated palates than mine also claim a certain cocoa …read more