Rittering On About Sporty Chocolate
Perhaps the most nonsensical post title ever. I am, however, intent on wittering about a chocolate that is apparently sporty.
No, it makes little sense to me either, but love rarely does. And I am in love. Deeply so, with a new beauty in my life.
This dame, this voluptuous beauty is called Ritter Sport Schokolade. Yup, there really is a brand of German chocolate in which the name of the founfer (Alfred Ritter) is conjoined to that most unlikely of twins, the word Sport. I can’t imagine reading about sporty chips, sweet salt, or respiratory cigarettes, and I treated this with as much cynicism as one might expect.
Radio had spent a weekend visiting her sister in Germany. She returned bearing a “gift”.
I casually started them a few evenings later and, well, melted. Delicious.
Radio was nice enough to get me this lot: Peppermint, Nougat, and something called “Voll-Nuss”, which I assume to be walnuts. Exquisite.
I’m not sure that I could even name all the different flavours there. Radio tells me that they’re sold at the Waitrose in High Wycombe, so here’s to hoping she learns to drive soon: she has training courses at an accursed manor there, so she could pick me up a couple hundred packs whilst she’s buying food (since she hates the food provided on training).
Tags: Ritter Sport
June 23rd, 2008 at 1:48 pm
I wish you felt that strongly about me :’(
My sister, who has visited the factory, says that the “sport” is because they were designed as a square so that you could fit them in your pocket when you went out to play sport. I assume this was invented in the 19th century, so I guess when the upper classes went out hunting, fishing, shooting etc, they’d be wearing overcoats with big pockets into which a bar would fit.
I can’t imagine in England that a company would be able to get away with implying chocolate be associated with sport. But last year’s advertising campaign for Rittersport had a slogan “Ich treibe Rittersport!”, which was sort of a play on words because “Sport treiben” is to practise sport
It’s Waitrose in Wantage that stocks it, not High Wycombe. They used to sell it in Rackhams food hall in Birmingham but have recently sold out which is rather upsetting. It might be worth checking if your Rackhams in Leicester has a food hall, as they do tend to stock a good range of foreign chocolate/biscuits.
Your post doesn’t quite make sense btw
Where you start talking about “Gift”, it kinda reads like you’ve skipped a sentence or something… But otherwise, a cool post 
June 23rd, 2008 at 5:11 pm
I *had* skipped a sentence. I had originally typed it as it appears now. I had problems uploading it and deleting the bad part (I clicked on the image and deleted it in the visual editor) seems to have deleted some of the test too.
June 24th, 2008 at 11:45 am
Tut tut Babel! A very wise person once told me never to use the visual editor, especially when dealing with images, and so my blog is now set up so that when you click “write post” the visual editor doesn’t come up by default
June 30th, 2008 at 1:00 am
Despite furious efforts to delay the inevitable, I’m sad to report that my chocolates are no more