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In French when an item is described with aux, au or à la it means the second item is a crucial or defining ingredient to the first item. In this situation chocolate is a crucial/defining ingredient to the nuts, or in fact, chocolate nuts. For another example consider 'Un sandwich au fromage' = A cheese sandwich
January 7, 2013
lolaphilologist
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Right- I don't think I've ever heard of "chocolate nuts" before. Chocolate-covered nuts, yes.
March 14, 2013
When speaking french, we need to think like them. In English we say 'chocolate covered nuts' but we're speaking french.
March 21, 2013
In this sentence nuts are "made" of chocolate. It's not the other way around, a chocolate bar with nuts inside.
January 6, 2013
