More recently, the company has put a nice spin on its line of pretzels.

In additional to the familiar, thin Salty Stix, there are Honey Wheat Braids in better-for-you whole wheat, Peanut Butter Nuggets and Double Baked Butter Balls—a joy for butter lovers.

Read the full review of H.K. Anderson Pretzels, which includes new ways to serve pretzels.

You’ll also find the history of the crunchy snack—created in 610 C.E. by a European monk to bribe children into memorizing their prayers.

• Find more of our favorite salty snacks.
• Take our Pretzel Trivia Quiz.

Have some Peanut Butter Nuggets with your
peanut butter sandwich. Photo by River
Soma | THE NIBBLE.

The Keurig B60 Special Edition Gourmet Single-Cup Home-Brewing System is ideal for busy people on the go. It brews a fresh cup of gourmet coffee, tea or cocoa in less than a minute.

The machine uses single-serving K-Cups, available in more than 70 varieties of coffee, tea and cocoa from a number of premium brands, including Millstone and Folgers. All you do is insert a K-cup and press a button. There are no messy coffee grounds to clean up—the K-cup gets tossed in its entirety.

With an extra-large water reservoir—73 ounces—you’re set for the week.

Featuring chrome accents and a blue, backlit LCD display, the Special Edition Keurig allows you to program water temperature, set a digital clock to brew while you’re still in bed, and make coffee for three cup sizes. The removable drip tray accommodates travel mugs.

A delicious cup of coffee with no messy clean-up! Photo courtesy Keurig.

• Folgers Black Silk
• Folgers Lively Columbian
• Millstone Breakfast Blend
• Millstone Hazelnut Cream

Tea and cocoa capsules are not included but are also available. Learn more about Keurig Single Cup Coffee Brewers at Keurig.com.

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• To Enter This Gourmet Giveaway: Go to the box at the bottom of our Gourmet Coffee Section and click to enter your email address for the prize drawing. This contest closes on Monday, November 22nd at noon, Eastern Time. Good luck!

No cocoa? Mix milk with fudge sauce.
Photo by Elton Lin | THE NIBBLE.

For hot chocolate, just place two spoonfuls of fudge sauce in a mug of milk. Microwave for two minutes, stir (a mini whisk is best for mixing) and enjoy.

Add two spoonfuls to a milkshake (with or without ice cream), and a small spoonful to a cup of coffee.

If you have any fudge sauce left, use it:

• As spoon candy—dip a spoon in and enjoy your chocolate fix
• Drizzle over plain cake (angel-food cake, pound cake, cheesecake) with an optional garnish of berries and whipped cream
• Make fondue: dip bananas, apples, orange segments, pineapple, strawberries, pretzels, cookies and cake chunks

With regrets to those who don’t eat sweets, we’ve been on a sweet streak over the last week, tasting products for review.

Sundaes Best is a line of hot fudge sauces, specializing in flavored fudge. Apart from the plain dark chocolate Original, the flavors include Cherry, Hazelnut, Java, Mint, Orange, Peanut Butter and Raspberry.

Raspberry is the best-selling flavor, but we preferred Cherry—the flavor of maraschino cherry deftly blended into the fudge sauce. Peanut Butter Hot Fudge is another favorite (PB and chocolate fans will love it), as are Orange and Mint.

While the company uses the finest cocoa, Cabot butter and half-and-half from an award-winning dairy, we preferred the flavors to the Original fudge sauce. It’s less common to find a flavored fudge sauce; and with Sundaes Best, there’s a favorite flavor for every palate to give a special lilt to everything you serve with it.

A box as a gift, a jar as a stocking stuffer.
Photo by Katharine Pollak | THE NIBBLE.

Beautiful hand-painted turkey place setting/
favor from Anna Shea Chocolates.

We also have a tradition of “place settings,” referring not to the dishes, glasses and silverware but to party favors. Our favor of choice is a chocolate turkey that continues the celebration over the holiday weekend.

The prettiest turkey we’ve seen this season is this hand-painted gobbler from Anna Shea Chocolates. They’ll be happy to send you a flock, but you can also look around locally for tempting treats, including chocolate or marzipan pumpkins; or fill individual clear plastic confection boxes with candy corn.

So…why are there a flock of turkeys, a brood of chickens, a gaggle of geese, a brace of ducks and so forth?

Back in the 17th century, when there was little entertainment—often the newspaper was a weekly—a group of literate folks started the list. Take a look at what they created here. It’s more fun than a pod of whales and a murder of crows.

• See last year’s tip for making chocolate place cards.