336958 Wed Oct 25 02:06:18 -0700 2006 11 27 General Chowhounding Topics 0 1970437 Has anyone tried it? I noticed they had several types. Wed Oct 25 02:06:18 -0700 2006 16610 dimples 1 1970591 My young daughter gave me some for Valentine's day. It was a plain milk bar with "love" stamped on top in some pink confection. Very cute, and much appreciated, but dreadful! It tasted like burnt plastic. I don't know if all the Choxie products taste like that, as I've never been able to bring myself to try it again, that first experience was so off-putting. Wed Oct 25 03:26:55 -0700 2006 1970437 23675 phofiend 1 1971028 I tried these for a young girls party. Very pretty, but no way are these high end chocolates on the cheap! Target has gone a bit crazy trying to bring high fashion to the masses. Wed Oct 25 13:33:42 -0700 2006 1970437 36312 HillJ 2 1971054 I agree!! YUK!! Wed Oct 25 13:42:49 -0700 2006 1971028 43654 BabyBee 1 1971255 Choxie is awful........ very cute and sort of chic, and thats it. Wed Oct 25 15:04:02 -0700 2006 1970437 40018 andlulu 1 1971273 Waxie was my impression. Wed Oct 25 15:13:11 -0700 2006 1970437 48786 lahtiji 1 1971475 The quality of chocolate in Choxie-branded items seems to vary pretty widely depending on what you buy. The chocolate coating the use for things like raisins, nuts, bridge mix, espresso beans, etc. is tasteless wax. The fancy-chocolate lookalikes are no better or worse than basic Hershey and Nestle dressed up to look like Godiva, which is to say not very good. But I like some of the solid bars: the Mexican-style one of dark chocolate with chili-pepper and cinnamon isn't half bad. Not high-end or anything, but it's pretty rich and has a nice mouthfeel IMO. I would imagine Target is getting each kind of item from a different manufacturer and rebranding it all as Choxie. Wed Oct 25 16:26:38 -0700 2006 1970437 10465 hatless 1 1971506 Interesting! I had read (LA Times? can't remember.) when they introduced that line that their Choixie chocolates were actually good but I could never get myself past the awful colors they were decorated with. I applaud Target's focus on making good design affordable but, more often than not, their color choices are just muddy and nauseating. Clothes, bedding, chocolates, whatever. Nasty! Wed Oct 25 16:35:48 -0700 2006 1970437 17969 rainey 1 1971546 Bypass the Choxie, but DO go to Target, because they stock Turtle Doves. Lavishly packaged, 2 to a box--caramel + pecans dipped in Dove Milk and swooshed with Dove Dark. Every day should be the 2nd Day of Xmas. Wed Oct 25 16:43:53 -0700 2006 1970437 23475 txmasjoy 1 1971575 with a name like "choxie"... didn't they learn anything from Hydrox? Wed Oct 25 16:53:34 -0700 2006 1970437 11504 amandine 1 1972735 I definitely agree with the poster who thought the chocolate tasted "waxy". I couldn't put my finger on it, but that is it! Also, Target does have a very large selection of "old fashioned" candy - stuff we used to eat as kids that are hard to find elsewhere. Wed Oct 25 22:25:26 -0700 2006 1970437 43654 BabyBee 1 1973123 I read labels and most of it has hydrogenated oils in it....too greasy tasting for me. Cheap way to make chocolate....like those little individual Ghirardelli squares. Thu Oct 26 01:15:32 -0700 2006 1970437 11234 toodie jane