I was wandering the aisles pushing my trolley at my local Woolworths supermarket, by chance, I felt like some Cote D’Or Bouchee chocolates and started looking in the confectionery aisle. I was staring where I believed I thought they would be, there was a woman looking around the same area as me, I asked what she was looking for and was surprised when she said the same chocolates as me.

So, after a short but polite conversation we began looking elsewhere, she asked for assistance and was directed to the international aisle. This would make sense if all foreign produced chocolate and confectionery was split up this way – it was not. When we met again at the check-outs, she had been successful, I had nothing. So what do I like about Cote D’Or Bouchee chocolates?

I was under the impression these were hazlenut flavoured chocolates from the Czech Republic, but this is not true. These are Belgium chocolates, not Czech and they are constructed from nut praline. Now I had to work out what this nut praline is, this is almonds ground into a paste and mixed with caramelised sugar. I remembered them to be better than what I tasted, the question I ask myself is am I being too picky or has the chocolate changed?

So I went searching for the box and I needed a magnifying glass, the printing is so small but I saw some hazelnut references and I also found they were manufactured in Slovakia, Mondelēz International is the owner so I see production has been outsourced. When I read some reviews there were complaints that the recipe had changed, from what I remembered this was a better chocolate that I remembered, they had changed the recipe and I was not living in some self imposed land of nostalgia.