http://steemitchocolate.com
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David Bradley Chocolate Factory Hand Crafted Chocolate Covered Strawberries
Hi Everyone, I am Bradley Hicks one of the owners of our family run business called David Bradley Chocolate Factory located in Windsor, NJ, and now our brand new website steemitchocolates.com. My family grew up with delicious homemade food being something that was almost considered the main part of the day for all of us, so our entire family being involved in the food and service industry is not too surprising to me. I have a brother David who is on steemit.com @zoomtruth but he distances himself from the business now because his beliefs are considered “out there” by most, maybe not so much here at steemit. My sister Christine is the President of the company and probably one of the hardest working people I know. Both of my parents are now retired and living in Sarasota Fl., I am extremely grateful that they have the opportunity to relax and really enjoy themselves and life finally.
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Factory Store Located in Windsor,NJ
Our small family business like many others seems to under constant attack by the federal and even local government. During the financial crisis in 2008, David Bradley Chocolate Factory had the pleasure of having OSHA visit us. At the time our company had a massive amount of debt for a small business almost half a million dollars (another story), I naively thought OSHA was there to help us make our factory a safer place to work which sounded reasonable. By the end of the day reasonable turned in to a nightmare. We were fined $30,000 originally (ended up paying $20,000 which I believe we are still paying), for cardboard boxes obstructing pathways, using power strips to power our office computers, and not having a “lockout” program for when we clean our equipment, all offenses that we never even knew there were laws for. It was devastating to our family and helped me realize who my real enemy is. OSHA was a very scary experience and what made it all the more infuriating was that while our business was being fined $30,000, at the same time the government was bailing out the banks (crooks). This government theft by the creatures at OSHA is one of the reasons was brutal. There is plenty more and I will share some more stories of David Bradley Chocolatiers journey to success with the steemit community in the future for sure.
Steemitchocolate.com Chocolate Covered Bacon Insanely Delicious!
Oh, and a little about our chocolates. David Bradley Chocolatier now on steemitchocolate.com strives to make chocolates that are worth the calories. We may not have Godiva’s name but I have had so many customers over the years not only compare our chocolates to Godiva, but most even tell me they think our chocolate is even superior. (I still really love some Godiva pieces myself haha). So there you go, our chocolate business took longer to become a financial success than I had originally planned, but in the end we still make the same exact delicious and fresh chocolates, made with the same ingredients from when my parents started in the chocolate business 40 years ago.
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Order NOW for Valentines Day. All Prices at Steemitchocolates.com Show a 15% Discount Included now through January 25th.
As a special introductory offer we are discounting everything in our store by 15%, this offer is only available on our steemitchocolate.com website. We currently manually update our prices (mainly on big swings) once or twice a day. Due to us manually updating our prices in Steem Backed Dollars, sometimes you will get more bang for your buck other times you may get little less from price fluctuations, we apologize for that inconvenience and will have a currency converter installed as soon as we find one to simplify the purchase process. We offer a 100% Guarantee and full refunds for anyone who is ever unhappy with their purchase. PEACE and LOVE Steemians!
wow this is great, excellent combined the bacon and chocolate..
People really love it, salty and sweet. Thanks for stopping by.
We have been unable to open a business account so here goes......
Great idea! I'll try to order some soon!
Thanks, I think you will be pleased!
more coming soon.
Hey! This is really cool! I'm in NYC. I'll have to come by sometime and see your place. It's nice to see a business taking Steem as currency gives me hope for this platform and my future on it.
Thanks , were 10 min or so off the NJ turnpike, if you ever have a trip south to take it makes a fun stop especially when people bring our chocolates to friends, we get lots of compliments. Thats what kept us going for all the years we were to IGNORANT or PLain DUMB to advertise correctly haha! I hope lots more business come too, I 'm done with U.S. toillet paper
Welcome to Steemit @bradleyhicks. I was going to say that your shop looks amazing, but being in the UK, and not liking chocolate, sadly, I'd never enjoy the delights of your products......then I saw chocolate covered bacon....and I'm now checking under my sofa to see if I can drum up enough loose change for a flight!!! Seriously though, that's a great first post and I'm sure you're going to love it on here, it's an amazing community.
Brads napping after putting the new site together for the last two days in a row lol. The bacon is a HUGE hit and surprisingly tastes really good. (salt and chocolate work well) Thanks for the support and 100% upvote coming as soon as power up.
Up vote not necessary, concentrate on making great posts......and bacon chocolate.....lots of bacon chocolate. 😜
Awwwww thank you. I say the same thing sometimes so funny! thank you
zoom. I'd say you should have Miss LooksFar do a vid commercial for you. You could pay her in a few pounds of chocolate-covered bacon. Interestingly enough, I never thought bacon and chocolate would taste that great, but because of this site, I started thinking about how good bacon which gets some pancake (maple) syrup on it, actually tastes, right? Why not chocolate syrup?
Thats right. So fry up some bacon and let it cool. Go to the grocery stor and buy some good quality chocolate milk or dark which ever you prefer. Use a double boiler to melt, (so it does not burn) try to melt two or 3 pounds and then when it is all melted you need to let milk chocolate cool to 86 degrees or the dark to 88 degrees, when it reaches that temperature (save a chunk of chocolate for this step) use a cheese grater, and using the smallest size grate about 3 teaspoons of chocolate shavings and add them to the cooled chocolate, stir in well for a couple minutes and now you can dip the bacon into the chocolate. The reason for the temperatures is to "temper" the chocolate so that it dries fast and with a nice shine. Its EASY, try it! You'll save yourself money too!
Do you also pack fudge? Cool website, maybe I will have enough sbd by next month to buy my wife's Valentine's Day gift there
I think you will be very happy if you try us, if not we have a 100% guarantee. Thanks for the kind words and a fullpower upvote is on its way. PEACE
its hard to believe the boy is from Jersey and he didn't get your joke. sheeesh.
I am noticing I am not remembering spelling words and stuff, yeah thats scary...I am 47 ugghhh
uuuhmyamm! really nice :)
maybe some people think "why should I buy steem if I could get some for free at steemit?" or "if steem value decreases, what should I do with all my earned steem from steemit?" and then this chocolate site magically appears and it all makes sense! ;) :D
HAHA thats funny. I think we will see many more businesses on steemit and hopefully soon. I want my money to stay right here. 100% upvote coming when I get to full power, thanks for the nice thoughts.
:) happy that I've made you laughing. And thanks for the incoming 100% upvote :)
hmph. There's the ultimate Valentine's Day Gift: underpants soaked in chocolate syrup. Go for it, Zoom!
hahah what the.. would be the best gift ever xD
Now see? This is a litmus test for men to use on their wife or g/f. Her reaction as she opens it is all you need to know to determine whether or not you should even be together. Right? Now Zoom... if this "underpants" is a chickie, YOU NEED TO GET HER EMAIL ADDRESS! If it's a guy, LOL, I don't even know where to begin!!! ahahaaha. wow.
LOL!
Wow one big upvote from me, delicious post
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GL here. Its really nice. PEACE
Fugget about it
I'm on a water fast, I have not eaten any food in 7 days, I plan on going at least another 33 days. I saw you blog and it made me think of how delicious food is. Thanks alot!
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I was looking at your blog ,,, it turns out a lot of good posts, I like. Do not forget to enter my blog friends yes, and do not forget to upvote as well
everyone here needs to learn NOT to tell people what to do. It makes your words seem NOT genuine you know....?
maybe I do not know everything ,,, which however I like just your post ,,, because I also can never make a post like you
Brother thanks for taking my comment the way I intended, as CONSTRUCTIVE critiscism. I think it was very nice of you to respond the way you did. Just keep being the beautiful person you are and people will naturally be ATTRACTED to you! PEACE ! (I disagree, there is NOTHING special about this post, just write the TRUTH and you will do EVEN BETTER.) Good luck!
hahahaha ,,, yayayaya, thanks..even not interesting ,,, father upvote was once my post.
Sweet message!
haha, thanks.
Sweet welcome!
wow, this really caught my attention. i love chocolates!
Our chocolate strawberries at valentines Day, we literally have had lines out the door. Thanks for the nice comment.
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wow thats sweet,, i mean you've surpass those hindrances and now your chocolates has name to be proud of
Thanks for the kind words. Much appreciated!
everything causes eating it, humm! Chocolate lover :-) excellent publication! @ bradleyhicks
My brother (bradley) and myself are both on a water fast ironically and may not eat anything for the next 5 weeks, just drink water! No more chocolate for us for now lol! upvotes coming at full power.
Yeah. I see. Now that he is seeing so much play from all the ladies who want him for his chocolate, he probably knows he needs to get his fat round ass and belly into better shape! I get it. I know how these Jersey Boys are... So take a number, yrmaleza. LOL
I feel like your anger may be misplaced, OSHA is there to protect the workers, and one needs only look up a video or article of the many accidents that happen due to employers failing to meet their regulations to see the devastating effect this can have. I remember one especially shocking video of a new temp worker going to the lower floor to mop when, due to insufficient oversight of precautions to take before employees are allowed to push any buttons, he gets crushed to death in a matter of seconds.
Not saying your business is running the same kind of employee-squishing operation, but I've seen and heard of too many people getting maimed or losing their lives to not throw it out there that while these fines may seem harsh or unnecessary to some, they are protections and life and limb-savers to the working class.
But I will say, the stuff you're selling does look good, and at a fair price too.
Where in the Constitution does it allow the federal government into your property for any occasion, no less this nebulous concept of "worker safety"? In a private contract, I don't need the government telling me a place isn't safe. I'll decide. ...and the price for my labor will be determined accordingly. That's why the guys who maintain the cell towers in all sorts of weather, make the big bucks. We don't need our government to be our "mommy", thank you.
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Exactly.
so... tell us about "ABC Soup Gang"... Do you also have a food related business?
ABCSoup. Check your email.
Until you have a person come with a book YOU HAVE NEVER SEEN OR HEARD OF with 10,000 rules the thickness of the Bible (actually thicker)and then come and take YOUR HARD EARNED CASH WHEN NOTHING HAPPENED to ANYONE in 40 YEARS in BUSINESS, YEAH..... I think I can handle MYSELF.
I am EXTREMELY disappointed when I hear the public DEFEND OUT RIGHT THEFT FROM SCUM AT OSHA.
PEACE,
Word.
By the way worker safety IS important. BUT WORKERS have a CHOICE too. What happens is that your idea of safe is not as stringent as the next guy and so on. When does it stop, some people are ok with working on slippery dangerous floors because they are careful, some people are IGNORANT and never learn from their mistakes, I NOR anyone ELSE should be punished by or JUDGED by anyone, that is CALLED FREEDOM.
By the way. The U.S. IS a corporation. It is a FACT look it up. Earth is Flat also haha!
One last thing because I let myself get triggered. Here is the real problem. A guy needs a ladder to change a bulb. The first guy says you need a special ladder for SAFETY reasons, then another person comes and says you need to secure that ladder to the floor or I would be uncomfortable, another new guy comes along and says I need a net under the ladder in case a earthquake happens, then another guy says he also must have water while he is on the ladder or he becomes dehydrated.....and on and on until you end up with OSHA's COMPLETE BOOK of INSANITY. Sorry brother but there is a thing called PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY, thats WHO I AM NOW, and if you don't like the FREAKING WORKING CONDITIONS, GOD GAVE YOU A BRAIN, NOW USE IT I SAY (as in leave and find an employer who cares about his employees! At one point I paid a valuable office manager 30% more than I was making at the time, she was/is worth it.
Thanks for the kind words about our chocolates also haha! I will upvote you at FULL POWER because I respect ANYONE who speaks their mind, RIGHT or WRONG.
And maybe I AM wrong?
looks delicious
Thanks, the employees bust their asses to make this stuff. This is our first year being out of debt after the financial crisas and very exciting,.
They soon began to see the fruits of their efforts
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Greetings Friend ! Welcome to Steemit, always happy to help each other! thanks for reaching out, just followed you to connect more in future......!!! Together we can do it, succes for all of you, Good luck.
Thanks for the kind words.
You deserve it @zoomtruth , nice see you here, follow me, we can better change for better life.
@azhari.mfr Thanks, I think you will do better not asking people to follow you, people will naturally do what is right if you give them the chance. I follow you already Peace.
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Looks delicious!
Thank you !
Chocolate covered bacon, i'd love to give that a try.
Thanks for sharing.
I did not think it would be as delicious as it is. It was /maybe still is our biggest seller, people love it. 100% upvote coming, thank you for your support and kind words
Awe, i really love chocolate but I'm far distant from your location. Anyway, good luck to your business endeavor. Hope everything's fine with your government.
Thanks so much for the nice comment, and everything is HORRIBLE with our government, sorry to be such a downer. I am tired of watching people suffer unnecessarily.
Where are you located Tessa?
Philippines..really far right? But i like your post and I'm following you now. Keep steeming:)
So, are people in your country learning about cryptoCurrency? I'm sure the chocolate company ships around the world.
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That is such a great idea. I can't wait till this becomes more the norm it's so cool. I'll eventually be able to by that in a few weeks probably. cheers.
Thanks, wit till you can buy ANYTHING you want in steem... intersting times.
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Thanks! I took it myself!
How can i get this. Hmmmmm #delicious
Wow, you are so cool guys! I mean this is great for the Steemit community and for the adoption of SBD and crypto. I'll buy some, but unfortunately I do not live in America: ( Wish you guys luck!
I bet they ship all over the world. What other chocolate company allows you to buy stuff with your Steem currency? Take advantage.
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Cool information thanks.
Hahahahaa that's a bet
As a chocolate lover, this is probably my first time hearing of Steemit Chocolates let alone bacon coated chocolates. You definitely deserved an Upvote for the creativity and innovation. Keep Steeming!
Haha thanks. We are just a small family chocolate business in NJ, we thought the name steemitchocolate was pretty cool that it was available so why not? The Chocolate Bacon IS a HIT, my brother heard some other people making it 4 years back or so, I told him he was CRAZY duh.. We have been making it for about 4 years now. I wish I could be happy about it but I'm a VEGATARIAN lol, so lol, kinda conflicted. I have full power upvotes for AWESOME comments like yours.. Thanks-Dave Hicks
Awesome! I look forward to hear your sharing on Steemit Chocolates. Followed!
Thanks so much!
mmmmmmmyyyaaaammmm!!!! 😍😍 Now I want/need to eat sweets 😄 Welcome to Steemit! :) Make this Steemit the sweetest place in the world with those beautiful chocolate fantasies ! Good Luck!! :))
THANKS, we try hard and I do believe our chocolates are special. I appeciate the thoughtful comment and good luck here at steemit to you too! -Dave
haha this is great!
Thanks, brother. I love steemit.
chocolate stawberry is identic of love
Seems that way on Valantine's Day for SURE!
You had me at chocolate! This is a fabulous idea. I will definitely be buying some chocolate. I have saved your site. Love your history and story. I am a new follower and will be checking out your posts. Good luck and have a wonderful day.
Thats so nice. If you are not 100% happy with ANYTHING just let me know, and we will FIX IT. I don't expect that but you never know. I truly hope you enjoy it as much as I think you will. Thanks again.
Holy Moley! I can't believe what a chickieMagnet you are with this dang chocolate. I can see you having so many "offers" and potential wives just wanting you for your chocolate, you will be soon able to open up a dating site, as a side biz. LOL
LOL, haven't been on a date in over 10 years!
Jeeze, boy. Take a bath. Things might change for y'a. What the heck is with the people from Jersey? YouzePeople swallow too much sewage from NY and Philly! It seems chocolate is a better aphrodesiac than wine or diamonds.
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Now I want chocolate
Haha right? I am water fasting and not eating this stuff much anymore so I am starting to feel conflicted if not I do! Too much is not good. Peace and LOVE
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Hey there! I ordered the Valentine Giant Box on Monday, but haven't gotten an email saying it's been shipped. I'm worried it won't make it here in time 😢
Any word?