Not all Chocolate Covered Strawberries are created equal.

Do you want chocolate or oil?

We use true gourmet chocolate,
and the largest, freshest strawberries available (never frozen and almost always long stem)

Would you buy the cheapest possible milk?
Of course not. (remember the fake milk scare last year?)

If you are looking for the absolute possible cheapest version of a dipped strawberry: we only use the finest ingredients, like real gourmet chocolate and large (almost always long stem) fresh, never frozen strawberries and real gourmet ingredients cost more than the alternative.. like a cubic zirconia (CZ) looks like a diamond, it's just not the same thing.

A $19 box of covered strawberries is the cubic zirconia of the gourmet confectionary industry.

We use real chocolate not OIL.
Real chocolate is based on cocoa butter, and to cut costs other companies have replaced it with cheaper vegetable oil.
 
We can guarantee something that our main competitors can�t: All of our strawberries are guaranteed to be dipped in true chocolate, not the fake multi colored flavored dip they use.

Most of our competitors don't use real chocolate, and we've found they have been up to much worse. Much Much Worse. (The courts have gotten involved)

Short Version:
$$$: If it�s significantly cheaper it's not the same class of product: not real chocolate, tiny grocery strawberries... and worse (see longer version below).

Longer version:

1. Fake Chocolate: At least seven national companies are advertising chocolate covered strawberries, but the product does not contain the key ingredient (Cocoa Butter) that is legally required to be called chocolate. Their products are Partially hydrogenated vegetable oil based.  (Read More - new window)
2. Five are being sued for passing the customers credit card data to a 3rd party under the guise of a coupon signup/free shipping/shipping rebate,  which then bills your credit card every month until you catch it and cancel it. (See legal documents - new window)
3. Not all of the makers are using the same grade of fruit (tiny strawberries are a lot less expensive and large strawberries have stems so they don't need to be skewered) 
4. Some have also cut costs by only dipping them part way, this gives little protection to the berries, un-dipped/un-protected berries are easily bruised and ruined.
5. We even had one ask that we send our credit card information by e-mail, (a totaly insecure method that a responsible merchant would never do).
6. We saw some were charging $1.99 extra for gift cards and a further $2.99 for "Care & Handling", (extra profit for them) it's hard to compare prices when they hide random fees like this at checkout.

You have heard of some of the above companies.
You've probably even seen or heard the constant radio & TV commercials or the   sponsored internet ads for really cheap strawberries($19). Even when you think you know who they are: they have multiple websites running under different names. We list some of these names here

You get what you pay for, if you want real chocolate on your chocolate covered strawberries: We do that.

If you want the largest freshest gift available: We do that

If you want cheap, fake chocolate or tiny berries:  We don't do that.


We detail the above questionable ethical activities in our corporate blog at
blog.ccberries.com