Fresh Eats: Ramona Bar: Double Dutch Sweets Out-Snickers Mars
Buoyed by the lessons from a free class on starting a business at San Francisco's Renaissance Entrepreneurship Center, and a loan from Youth Business America, Shiyuan Deng started Double Dutch Sweets in Oakland last summer. Deng, a mini-Mars mogul in the making, has created the Ramona bar, a far superior version of that company's popular Snickers.
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Double Dutch Sweets. Available at The Candy Store, Miette, Bi-Rite, Rainbow Grocery, and Little Vine, or visit doubledutchsweets.com.
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Instead of crappy, questionable chocolate, Deng's Ramona uses lush Venezuelan chocolate that's dark enough to touch upon savory territory. Her nougat is fluffy and made with honey, with a bit of sea salt sprinkled on top. More than anything, she nails the proportions that Snickers should have, with lots of nougat and well-scattered chunks of peanut.
At $6 for a tiny 1.8-ounce bar, the Ramona can only be the frequent habit of the monied. But if the price point was lower, we'd have a serious problem on our hands, so perhaps this is a public service.
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