Impact
Not friggin but ‘freegan’... those tendentious culture-jammers against ‘affluenza’ led by the good-god luvin’ Rev. Billy & his mainstay epistle writer Michel Foucault, taking up the anti-consumerism / post-materialist bent into dumpster diving, plate scraping, wild foraging, guerilla gardening, shoplifting, hacking, tax resistance, & good-hearted barter & bikes documented in the film Bin Appetite.
Not wastrels; just waste-nots.
Few of them of course are poor or homeless – just the opposite, many are trustafarians - but as a political statement they put the ‘free’ back into the ‘free market'. Doubly so when compared to their bailed-out brethren: those corporations practicing financial freeganism.
A bar some freegan might find along their varied & humorous paths to substitute for a breakfast pop-tart or a dinner dessert. Considering its retail price, it’d be a major coup of a score.
Not wastrels; just waste-nots.
Few of them of course are poor or homeless – just the opposite, many are trustafarians - but as a political statement they put the ‘free’ back into the ‘free market'. Doubly so when compared to their bailed-out brethren: those corporations practicing financial freeganism.
A bar some freegan might find along their varied & humorous paths to substitute for a breakfast pop-tart or a dinner dessert. Considering its retail price, it’d be a major coup of a score.
Appearance 4.2 / 5
beautifully hideous
beautifully hideous
| Color: | scar(let) brown |
| Surface: | an active volcano of crags, craters, & caves |
| Temper: | angry mess |
| Snap: | decrepit; but better edge wall than expected |
Aroma 8.4 / 10
medicinal / hospital: perfumed saponins (ylang) -> ionized cocoa -> wintergreen, evergreens, & pine trees -> wet pecans w/ mite anise seed -> slides out boarding (cardboard) & vents tobaccocoa
Mouthfeel 11.2 / 15
| Texture: | ramshackle |
| Melt: | turbulent (very clean evacuation however; no grip / nothing astringent) |
Flavor 32.9 / 50
spiced chocolate -> disruptive raw cacáo -> chicle wintergreen gum further cools the mix -> eucalyptus & licorice -> lime to guava swell -> champagne grape -> tannins level & warm the profile some as Nibs work their way thru like so many cocoa cinders, resulting in mangosteen & low background bitter -> wintergreen stays on it w/ ylang as it goes out... pau d’arco & uña de gato in the aft-FX
Quality 10.6 / 20
Ill defined & fairly unrefined, bordering raw – underdeveloped at least. Nibs contribute to this, as does a relatively low roast -- by Soma’s standard. Moreover, a panoply of origins that just throws the sink at this bar; every compass point covered (Africa; Caribia, Amazonia; Oceania) creating a riotous chocolate take on herding cats... everything going every which way.
In tossing practically the whole world into the mix, Soma conducts an experiment on ‘trial & error’ to see what sticks to the palate walls, a tumult that succeeded in the abstract expressions of Jackson Pollack’s floor canvases which hang in museums around the world but causes an accident here.
ING: cocoa mass, sugar spice
Reviewed Spring 2010
In tossing practically the whole world into the mix, Soma conducts an experiment on ‘trial & error’ to see what sticks to the palate walls, a tumult that succeeded in the abstract expressions of Jackson Pollack’s floor canvases which hang in museums around the world but causes an accident here.
ING: cocoa mass, sugar spice
Reviewed Spring 2010