Mmmmffll-CHOMP: I won? Reg reader to have CHOC-TASTIC YEAR

A choc-a-rific cheer for Reg reader Toby Fenton, who won The Register's compo prize of a year’s subscription to creamy confection dispensers Cocoa Runners.

Toby got all the answers to the questions right...

So what were they? Cocoa beans are known as 20:20 because they grow from 20 degrees north and south of the equator. Many of the pioneers in chocolate came from families who were Quakers and disapproved of drinking. The Aztecs used to drink, eat and smoke chocolate. As one commentard pointed out, they also used it as currency, which may or may not have been the origin of Hanukkah gelt (chocolate coins) – but money which grew on trees would certainly have made the Golgafrinchans proud.

Toby will get four bars of chocolate a month from Cocoa Runners. These are sourced from the best bean-to-bar growers in the world. Some of the bars are so rich you’d need to be a world-class chocolate guzzler to finish them in a single sitting.

Bean to bar is to cornershop chocolate what Kopi luwak is to Nescafe – the only problem with Cocoa Runners chocolate is that you start to get a bit sniffy when someone offers you a bit of their Dairy Milk.

Each month's subscription contains bars which are curated as a set and arrives in smart box with tasting notes. A small fifth morsel of chocolate is supplied so that you can introduce a friend.

And when you’ve found one you particularly like (mine's Duffy’s – Star Of Peru), you can order more. Cocoa Runners does online matchmaking for chocolate with a taste test.

Toby was delighted when we called to tell him that he’d won and said it topped off the weekend when he was getting married. He will get to try 48 bars over his year, which will no doubt make him very popular with his friends and colleague at Pirbright Institute, but you might want to check he’s washed his hands before taking a piece from him as the institute is the world’s leading research centre for Foot and Mouth disease. ®