The Music of the Spheres was particularly sharp today.

After taking care of my Saturday morning chores, I ran out to my Ex's store where my daughter also works. I try to drop in every Saturday to say hi and drop off magazines I've collected through the week. I also try to bring some kind of "treat" if I can. Today it was an assortment of chocolates for KL. I had some fancy Bridgewaters, a couple of Godivas, and a small sample bar of Vosges.

The Bridgewater candy came from my sister-in-law and the Godiva I picked up at the Godiva store in a mall. The sample bar of Vosges was one of 12 that came in a sampler pack of the chocolatier's offerings. (Larger, full versions of these bars are around $7.50 each.) I had gotten the stack of bars from my BFFs out in Arizona for Christmas, and, being mostly dark chocolate, were spectacular. (A couple of flavors, for instance: Dark Chocolate Bacon; Coconut Caramel with Tart Cherry.) 

The bar I gave KL was one of the caramel types (maybe Pink Himalayan Crystal Salt Caramel Bar). Anyway, I had given her the chocolates, went outside to go back to  my car, and returned.

I got back and daughter KL steps up and says, "Dude! Do you know what that bar on top was, a Vosges, candy crack!" I explained that I had already had several flavors. She smiled and said, "My favorite is a strange flavor ... "

We then shouted out simultaneously, "Coconut Ash & Banana!" At an exact moment, an exact candy! And a most unusual one at that: Sri Lankan coconut charcoal ash, Hawaiian banana, super dark chocolate. How the hell does that particular combination of ingredients come into someone's mind?

At this moment, however, all I can say is that it was my favorite of all I surveyed. I can't say specifically why. I remember that every bite was a surprise. Each bite brought a new complexity to the overall impact. I will have to get one of the larger bars to remember exactly.