Truth or Koincidences

The new Chocolate Cherry MilkQuake has caused a couple of people to ask me if I had anything to do with it. I did "invent" the Chocolate Covered Strawberry MilkQuake on January 3rd. Technically I'd had the idea since back in October. However, I'd only told one or two people prior to actually making it, and none of those people work for Krystal. I know that some of the folks up at Krystal HQ read this blog. I don't know how many or how often, so I am fairly certain they read about it the same time you did. But let's face it, it's not really an Earth shattering discovery. I don't know the inner workings of the food industry, but I can only imagine the time line from initial idea to actually arriving in stores is longer than 6 weeks. Now if Krystal does want to get adventurous with their MilkQuakes, I'm here for ya, baby. For example:Frozen Banana Slices + MilkQuake = Yummy!Chocolate or vanilla MilkQuake works equally well. And trust me, there's more where that came from. So the bottom line, in my opinion, the Jason's Chocolate Covered Strawberry MilkQuake and Krystal' Chocolate Covered Cherry MilkQuake is Koincidence. But there's even more koincidences you don't know about. Three weeks ago, more or less, I went to Just Because Chocolates around the corner for several reasons. I wanted to see if they had any good ideas on what to do with Dulce de Leche, but instead they'd never heard of it, so I gave them the recipe. I asked them about chocolate covered bacon, and as expected, they wrinkled their noses. I also wanted to inquire about buying some chocolate covered cherries for Courtney. Yes. Chocolate Covered Cherries. Three weeks ago. I had been thinking about making them myself, but they seemed to be very complicated and time consuming and I didn't have that much time. I decided I needed outside help on this one. Just Because has chocolate covered cherries. And LOTS of other delicious stuff. In fact they do their cherries two different ways. One they dip in chocolate and another they soak in brandy for a few weeks before they dip them in chocolate. I bought 2 pounds of the brandy soaked cherries to send to Courtney. It's at this point Courtney is now wondering where that other half a pound went. I'm not telling! As I said they're soaked in brandy for a while and then double dipped in dark chocolate. What I did find strange though is that they don't do the "fondant cream" that you find in the typical boxed valentine's chocolate covered cherries. But in this case they certainly don't need it! They're so good you contemplate eating the stem, too!If all this chocolate covered cherry talk has given you a craving, you can still head on over to krystal and get a Chocolate Covered Cherry MilkQuake all to yourself! Just watch out for seagulls!