I was in Chicago at a conference last month and I mentioned to Smick that I hoped I had time to go to Marshall Field and get some Frango chocolates. I believe their best-known best-loved flavor is a chocolate-orange mixture, and I was curious to try it.

Alas, I did not have the time, but the conference sponsors gave me a gift for speaking: a little box of Frango chocolate mints.

And they were pretty good, but nothing special. Meaning that the best story I have about Frango chocolate is this:

One of my close friends from college has a good friend whose last name is Frangos. When I heard about the chocolates, and because my friend is from the Chicago area, and because you can only get Frango chocolate at Marshall Fields, I naturally emailed him to ask if there was any relationship. He told me there wasn’t, but everyone always made a big deal about his friend’s name. Especially the year that, at Christmas, the company put up a bunch of billboards that said, “Save the world, eat Frangos.”

I came across this site and fell out of my chair. Taquitos.net is a fantastic snack site. They have been around for quite some time with thousands of snack entries and clearly have their act together. Want to read up on snacks? They even beat me to the Lays Lime Pepper chips entry.

http://www.taquitos.net/