{"id":27,"date":"2003-08-28T19:51:28","date_gmt":"2003-08-29T02:51:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/boulter.com\/blog\/2003\/08\/28\/jeffie-and-the-chocolate-factory\/"},"modified":"2003-08-28T19:51:28","modified_gmt":"2003-08-29T02:51:28","slug":"jeffie-and-the-chocolate-factory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/boulter.com\/blog\/2003\/08\/28\/jeffie-and-the-chocolate-factory\/","title":{"rendered":"Jeffie and the Chocolate Factory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last weekend, we headed up to Berkeley to take the tour at the <A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.scharffen-berger.com\/index.htm\">Scharffen Berger<\/A> chocolate factory. We learned about it watching <A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.bayareabackroads.com\">Bay Area Backroads<\/A>. It was actually pretty educational and we got to taste various states of chocolate ingredients and qualities of chocolate. Some of them were pretty nasty. I expected to be more touring of the chocolate factory, but it was actually pretty small and so noisy we had to wear ear protection. We spent 45 minutes getting the history of chocolate from the over-enthusastic tourguide. <\/p>\n<p>Overall, I thought the <A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.jellybelly.com\/About\/Tours\/California_Factory_Tour.htm\">Jelly Belly factory tour<\/A> was much better. It was a lot more interesting and they have lots of jelly bean art and neat candy-making videos, not to mention the discount jelly beans at the end. I think I&#8217;ve been there 5 times now with various combinations of visiting relatives and friends.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking of the Chocolate Factory, apparently <A HREF=\"http:\/\/movies.yahoo.com\/shop?d=hp&#038;cf=prev&#038;id=1808403418\">Tim Burton is remaking<\/A> the classic movie. Tim Burton seems a little too &#8220;dark&#8221; to do a musical for kids, but I guess it&#8217;ll be interesting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last weekend, we headed up to Berkeley to take the tour at the Scharffen Berger chocolate factory. We learned about it watching Bay Area Backroads. It was actually pretty educational and we got to taste various states of chocolate ingredients and qualities of chocolate. Some of them were pretty nasty. I expected to be more &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/boulter.com\/blog\/2003\/08\/28\/jeffie-and-the-chocolate-factory\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading &lsquo;Jeffie and the Chocolate Factory&rsquo; &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/boulter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/boulter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/boulter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/boulter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/boulter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/boulter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/boulter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/boulter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/boulter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}