Ritter Sport

Following the Visit to the Porsche Museum Jenny decided to try to make our Saturday even more German by visiting the Ritter Sport Factory. The place is every kid's fantasy, especially big kids like us.

We were taken back in time to when cocoa had been harvested and used by the Olmacs. After a brief history, we then viewed the process of making chocolate. It was quite an interactive walk through, however the highlight was pressing a little button on a machine that would have a Ritter Sport truck deliver a chocolate to you by way of vending machine style.

At the end we entered the shop; it honestly felt like we were in Willy Wanka's chocolate world! There were candy bars everywhere, in any flavor you could possibly imagine. To name just a few:

1. Vollmilch – Plain milk Chocolate (Royal Blue Wrapper)
2. Schoko-Duo – Plain milk Chocolate and white chocolate (Royal Blue Wrapper with chocolate bar on outside)
3. Dunkle Vollmilch – Plain medium dark chocolate, 40% cacao (Azure Blue Wrapper)
4. Halbbitter – Plain dark Chocolate, 50% cacao (Burgundy Wrapper)
5. Edelbitter – Plain dark chocolate, 71% cacao (Pink Wrapper)
6. Knusperkeks – Milk chocolate with a butter biscuit (Brown Wrapper)
7. Pfefferminz – Chocolate with peppermint filling (Caribbean Green Wrapper)
8. Joghurt – Yogurt (White Wrapper)
9. Erdbeer Joghurt – Milk chocolate strawberry and yogurt filling (Light Pink Wrapper)
10. Voll-Nuss – Milk chocolate with whole hazelnuts(Brown Wrapper with Hazelnut-Pattern)
11. Dunkle Voll-Nuss – Dark chocolate with whole hazelnuts (Dark Brown Wrapper with Hazelnut-Pattern)
12. Weiße Voll-Nuss – White chocolate with whole hazelnuts (White/Cream Wrapper with Hazelnut-Pattern)
13. Knusperflakes – Milk chocolate with corn flakes (Golden Yellow Wrapper)
14. Voll Erdnuss – Milk chocolate with whole peanuts (Orange Wrapper)
15. Ganze Mandel – Milk chocolate with whole almonds (Dark Green Wrapper)
16. Marzipan – Dark chocolate with marzipan center (Red Wrapper)
17. Cocos – Milk chocolate with flakes of coconut in the center (Silver Wrapper)
18. Trauben-Nuss – Milk chocolate with raisins and hazelnut pieces (Carmine Red Wrapper)
19. Rum Trauben Nuss – Milk chocolate with rum-soaked raisins and hazelnut pieces (Crimson Red Wrapper)
20. Cappuccino – Milk chocolate and cappuccino cream (Amber Wrapper)
21. Alpenmilch – Special milk chocolate with high alpine milk proportion (Sky Blue Wrapper)
22. Nugat – Milk chocolate with hazelnut-nougat center (Midnight Blue Wrapper)
23. Feinherb à la Mousse au Chocolat – dark chocolate filled with chocolate mousse (Bistre Wrapper)
24. Karamel Nuss - Milk Chocolate with butter caramel cream dropped hazelnuts and crispy rice (Golden yellow wrapper)
25. Haselnuss – Milk chocolate with hazelnuts
26. Praline – Milk chocolate with hazelnut praline filling. (Navy Wrapper)

It certainly was a sweet part of our day! We stocked up on our chocolate bars and hit the road. AlI I know (Jenny) is that I would not have a problem going back there again and restocking of course!