After a half-dozen misses in Port Authority, I finally found a Peter Paul Mounds (1.75 oz.; 74 cents) at a newsstand as I was headed up to street level. Dark chocolate suits the coconut much better that the milk chocolate in Almond Joy, but Mounds is still way too sweet compared with my co-worker Marie's chocolate eggs, from Rutherford (New Jersey) Congregational Church. Not that Marie's are lacking in sugar: According to the printed notes that accompanied the egg carton, each year the congregation makes about 1,300 dozen from 500 lbs. (dark) chocolate, 600 lbs. confectioner's sugar, and 475 lbs. coconut. Yet even though mine was the size of a small egg (perhaps even a medium), I didn't get that cloying feeling at all.
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