{"id":14726,"date":"2010-07-27T14:31:29","date_gmt":"2010-07-27T22:31:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/198.46.88.49\/?p=14726"},"modified":"2010-07-27T15:06:22","modified_gmt":"2010-07-27T23:06:22","slug":"chocomize-creating-your-own-candy-bar-is-the-next-big-thing-in-customization","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/198.46.88.49\/food\/chocomize-creating-your-own-candy-bar-is-the-next-big-thing-in-customization","title":{"rendered":"Chocomize: Creating Your Own Candy Bar is the Next Big Thing in Customization"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-14737\" title=\"chocomize\" src=\"http:\/\/198.46.88.49\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/chocomize.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"298\" height=\"177\" \/>Customization is everywhere {<a href=\"http:\/\/www.crunchgear.com\/2010\/07\/21\/new-wave-of-web-services-brings-customization-to-commerce\/\">CrunchGear<\/a>}, and, in particular, it is all over the Internet and streaming through scores of gadgets. Services like Netflix and OnDemand allow a choice in which movies to watch, and Web sites like Zazzle, Lulu and StickerGiant offer personalized gifts, while YouTube and Pandora produce tailor-made TV and radio broadcasts with no predetermined programming. It is all enough to make you wonder if there will be an end to mass-produced products one day.<\/p>\n<p>For now, the hottest new personalized product trend is creating your own chocolate.\u00c2\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.chocomize.com\/\">Chocomize<\/a>, a New York-based Web company, offers custom-made candy bars, designed by the consumer and shipped right to their door. You get a choice of up to five out of 90 ingredients to add to your choice of chocolate bark for over 30 million combinations to create \u00e2\u20ac\u0153chocolate exactly the way you want it.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d You can also design your own packaging and engrave personalized messages into the chocolate.<\/p>\n<p>Ingredients include nuts, fruit, seeds, herbs, spices and decorations in addition to some peculiar choices, with some of the most outrageous including Pop Rocks, vegetarian bacon, Edamame, corn nuts\u00c2\u00a0and Beef Jerky.\u00c2\u00a0{<a href=\"http:\/\/designcrave.com\/2010-07-16\/chocomize-design-your-own-indulgence\/\">DesignCrave<\/a>}<\/p>\n<p>Chocolate bars start at $3.85. That\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s pricey for a piece of candy, but perhaps worth it for the custom-obsessed or socially conscious, as a portion of the proceeds for each candy bar sold go to a charity of the customer\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s choice. Chocolate with a personalized message is also a cute party or wedding favor idea.<\/p>\n<p>Chocomize is not alone in the customized chocolate-verse. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.createmychocolate.com\">Createmychocolate.com<\/a> (Chocri) offers a\u00c2\u00a0similar service with over 100 toppings and a charity donation upon checkout. Chocri was founded in Germany and launched in the United States this past January.<\/p>\n<p>The coolest thing about Chocomize, however, is its back story. Eric Heinbockel, Fabian Kaempfer and Nick LaCava, three young entrepreneurs who met at Columbia University, founded the company after realizing the economic downturn meant poor job prospects for all of them upon graduation. They decided to create their own career path and chose to start a customized candy bar business after their own research showed chocolate to be one luxury good still in demand despite the recession.{<a href=\"http:\/\/www.crunchgear.com\/2010\/07\/21\/new-wave-of-web-services-brings-customization-to-commerce\/\">CrunchGear<\/a>}<\/p>\n<p>Talk about inspiring!<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_14738\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-14738\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-14738\" title=\"chocomize-custom-bars\" src=\"http:\/\/198.46.88.49\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/chocomize-custom-bars.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"490\" height=\"343\" srcset=\"http:\/\/198.46.88.49\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/chocomize-custom-bars.jpg 490w, http:\/\/198.46.88.49\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/chocomize-custom-bars-300x210.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 490px) 100vw, 490px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-14738\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">From left to right, the Chocomize Smores Bar, Tighty Whiteys chocolate bar, and Fresh Face Forward chocolate bar<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The hottest new personalized product service is Chocomize, a New York-based Web company that offers custom-made candy bars, designed by the consumer and shipped right to their door. Chocomize offers a choice of up to five out of 90 ingredients to add to your choice of chocolate bark for over 30 million combinations to create \u00e2\u20ac\u0153chocolate exactly the way you want it.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6837],"tags":[918,4120,4119,185,143,394,33,1034,923,6861,344,470,247],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/198.46.88.49\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14726"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/198.46.88.49\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/198.46.88.49\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/198.46.88.49\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/198.46.88.49\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14726"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/198.46.88.49\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14726\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14734,"href":"http:\/\/198.46.88.49\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14726\/revisions\/14734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/198.46.88.49\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/198.46.88.49\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/198.46.88.49\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}