The company, founded in 1919, is famous for its peanut butter blocks and assorted chocolates.

One, for instance, shows shadows of hands reaching into a box of assorted chocolates.

Monthly selections may be 1-pound assorted chocolates, truffles, chocolate bark, chocolate-covered mints, fruits and cookies.

The chocolates are sold by mail, with prices from $9 for five Gold Bars to $55 for assorted chocolates, plus shipping.

The North Pole also sells ten different flavors of candy canes, boxes of assorted chocolates and Christmas cookies in green foil wrap, marshmallow elves, and fudge tannenbaums.

There were no lights on within, and he entered quickly and quietly, painkillers, antihistamines, psychedelics, and a five-pound box of assorted chocolates all gift-wrapped together in a gaudy parcel beneath his arm.

Normandie is actually a small candy factory that takes telephone orders (one-pound minimum) and sells solid chocolate steamships to E.A.T., assorted chocolates to Ottomanelli's and walnut and marzipan truffles to Dean and DeLuca.

A half-hour later he was still pondering, before ending up with chocolate crayons for his daughter's schoolteacher, a chocolate bus for her bus driver, a big chocolate kiss for his daughter and a favorite box of assorted chocolates for his wife.

The company produces Tópas and Ópal, "fresh breath products" known for being somewhat bitter and soothing a sore throat with menthol and eucalyptus, as well as pastilles, sugar twists, assorted chocolates (a Christmas tradition) and Easter eggs.

A few minutes later the Deruta vase containing about half a kilo of assorted chocolates had been placed on the rear seat of the Volvo and he was sitting in the front watching Cinzia tear up the parking ticket which had been tucked under the windscreen wiper.