What are your favorite foods to dip in chocolate? Maybe it’s fresh, ripe strawberries or another delicious fruit?

Or maybe you’ve got a “too good not to share” dipping chocolate idea. Whatever it is, tell us your favorite foods to dip in chocolate.

Enter the Tropical Foods “Dipping Chocolate Deliciousness” Blogger Contest, and you could receive a prize of:

• One of ten (10) dipping chocolate gift baskets from Tropical Foods
• A $100 Visa gift card

To enter, write a 200-250 word blog post about your five favorite snacks for dipping in chocolate. Be sure to mention the Tropical Foods “Dipping Chocolates” Contest and include a link to www.dippingchocolates.com.

Go to www.dippingchocolates.com to enter!

Greetings from Tropical!

By Sheila Neisler

Whatever the occasion, there’s no better greeting than a selection of tropical nuts and fruits, by themselves or in freshly baked goods or healthy snack mixes, from Tropical Nut & Fruit Co., headquartered right here in Charlotte……….

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Recently our Dallas OC was notified that they were recipients of the very prestigious Silliker Platinum award for 2010.  This award is given to the very top audited facilities during the year.

Congratulations to Rick, Terry and the Dallas Team for your excellence in maintaining a top rated facility! 

Tropical Foods was among the top fund raisers for the 2010 Charlotte CROP Hunger Walk.  The money raised goes to three local agencies and Church World Service to provide hunger and disaster relief here in Charlotte and around the world.

Crop Walk website http://charlottecropwalk.org/

Fresh baked goods, the best meat in town at their custom butcher shop, ice cream, fresh peaches, and snacks from Tropical Foods, get them all at The Peach Stand in Fort Mill, SC.

The Peach Stand

1325 W Hwy 160

Fort Mill, SC  29715

Have you been to the Sunflour Baking Company?  If not, check it out!

Sunflour Baking Company, 2001 E 7^th Street, Charlotte, NC  28204

Atlanta celebrated “Drivers Appreciation Week” March 7th through March 11th. Knowing full well it takes a total team effort to service our customers, Tropical Atlanta showed true appreciation for our drivers all week. The sales staff as well as Warehouse Manager Stan Wiggins prepared a unique lunch every day of the week for Atlanta’s drivers. One comments from driver Gary Parsons, “this is definitely a week I won’t take off next year”. All drivers were appreciative of the efforts but most importantly Atlanta appreciates their drivers!!!

Pictured from left to right…..Gary Parsons, Richard Danzig, Terry Wheeler

Today, snacking is more acceptable and is clearly the fourth meal of the day. Twenty one percent of all meals are snacks.—23rd Annual Report on Eating Patterns in America, September 2008

One of the next “big” trends in the confection industry for 2009 through 2014 are healthier confection options, specifically a growing demand for health benefits and ‘better for you’ ingredients. Consumers are finding new ways to incorporate traditional candy as part of a healthy, active lifestyle.–National Confectioners Association, Industry Report June 2009