Wow! Everytime I have asked at stores, people look at me like I was
making it up. I didn't expect anybody to actually know of such a
thing.

>
> Which grocery stores were carrying it? If I know this I can tell you which
> brand it was.

The one I used to get it all the time was XL Sooper. It was a smaller
chain, and that store closed down many years ago. I know for sure that
i was buying it in 1987 and 1988.

Then I found it *once* at Fred Meyer. That was probably in the late
90s at Christmas time. I still shop there frequently, but I have never
seen it again.

>
> IME, in Seattle, the Saran-wrapped chunks are usually Callebaut.

It was saran wrapped. I don't know if it came in already wrapped or
was wrapped in the store. It had a store scale label.

>
> If you are accurate and your chunks are truly about an inch thick, however,
> that would be from the 1kg blocs rather than the larger blocs Guittard and
> Callebaut produce, which are typically closer to 2 inches thick. The 1 kg
> blocs sold in the grocery stores are usually either El Rey or Scharffen
> Berger.

I'm not really sure as it has been so long. It was at least an inch,
but it might have been as much as 2 inches. I used to knaw on it,
making it hard work to eat it, yet very satsifying.

>
> Did the break-up have any sort of markings on the flat sides (i.e. the ones
> that weren't along the break marks but rather were part of the original
> surface of the bar)? If so, identifying them is usually pretty easy.
>

I know there was an overall pattern to the bar, but not something I
could pick up from one chunk. Some larger pattern.


> Ghirardelli blocs
> are thinner than Guittard, though.

My sister thought it might be Ghiradelli, but I haven't found a small
candy bar that tasted the same.
>
> Was the chocolate dark or milk? If dark, was it almost ebony black or more
> of a dark, ruddy brown? If milk, was it a pale mocha colour or a darker
> colour more like brown gravy?
>

It was milk chocolate, and I think kinda pale. The closest taste I can
come up with is Hershey's.


> Larry's Market carries Guittard.
>
> Various PCCs have various other brands. Fremont has Callebaut and some El
> Rey. Green Lake has El Rey and Scharffen Berger. Some PCC stores have some
> Guittard.
>
> Whole Foods Market has Callebaut, El Rey, Scharffen Berger, and Dagoba.
>
> Metropolitan Market has Callebaut.
>
> Cost Plus World Market has Ghirardelli.
>
> Dilettante has Guittard. The Pike Place Market location usually has better
> supply and is less frenetic.
>
> DeLaurenti has Scharffen Berger, Valrhona, and some Callebaut.
>

Thanks. I will print this list and start checking out those stores. I
know where some of them are.