My Favorite Chocolate

[faulty_damper]

I love chocolate.
I prefer quality chocolate, not cheap Hershey's bars.

The best brand for quality chocolate is Lindt, made in Switzerland.  It's not the cheapest but price is of little concern.  For a 3.5 onze (100 gram) bar, it retails at over $2 USD.

I just finished the Swiss Milk Chocolate with whole Hazelnuts just a short while ago.  I bought it on sale at $1 on Sunday.  I bought three different kinds: the already mentioned hazelnuts, white chocolate with coconut, and chocolate truffles.  I finished them all.

They really are the best chocolate I've ever tasted and I've tried a lot of it and am satisfied that Lindt makes the best chocolate in the world.  I don't think anyone can offer an alternative that is even better but if you think there is one, then please tell me!

Yeah, I sometimes get sharp chest pains after I eat way more than I should at one time but hey, I know what my tongue wants and can't be bothered with what my heart is telling me.  If I die because my arteries have been clogged by the fat that was in the chocolate, then that will be the best way I can die for I know that I had been in chocolatey heaven right before my body convulses with pain and me, on the ground, clutching my chest.

Please bury me with a Lindt chocolate bar in my hand.  I prefer the one in the blue package, the one with hazelnuts.  I'm sure it won't melt in my hand this time.

[willcowskitz]

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[bernhard]

Yes, Lindt is all right as far as industrial, mass-produced chocolates go. Now you want to go one step further: hand-made chocolates by the most celebrated chocolatiers in the world.

In the UK there is something like a “chocolate appreciation club”, for chocolate connoisseurs, where they send you a box of hand crafted chocolates for degustation. Here is one in the USA (I am sure there are others out there):

https://www.chocolatemonthclub.com/index.htm


Best wishes,
Bernhard.

[Motrax]

I prefer the brutal mass-produced punch of a good white-chocolate Reeses peanut butter cup.  

[squiggly_girl]

There's nothing like Cadbury's glass and a half of full cream New Zealand dairy milk for quality that the growing family can afford.

[janice]

I would commit a felony for chocolate--I love it!!!  I am a person who enjoys fine quality chocolates, but I also enjoy mass-produced chocolate Easter bunnies!  I eat the ears first!!  Does anybody else do this?

[Peachy_Keen]

I'm not a fan of chocolate at all. I've tried all kinds of chocolates, and they don't tickle my fancy at all. I do think chocolate "elitists" (at least the ones i've met) are funny people though, they don't seem to understand that the world doesn't share their sweet tooth. I'd hesitate buying a Heath bar, let alone some imported brand with a european guy on the label saying "hersheys eez for peegs!". Unless it came with a beret.

It's just funny that people would discriminate (in any form) on the basis of candy.

Now tea is a different matter. Anyone who drinks cheap tea (see: liptons) is a fool, and deserves to be shot!  

[Tash]

oh yeah lindt is the best, but it does make you feel quite sick after eating too much (but by the time i realise i've eaten too much it's too late)- omg i got a lindt easter bunny for easter and it was SO GOOD. mmm my faves are milk and hazelnut, love hazelnut!

also i dunno if you can get these around the world, but the bel fleur (i think that's the name) chocolates are really really good too- not as rich as lindt but still deliciously good.

i hate mass produced chocolate, only cadbury is tolerable for me, nestle is disgusting unless it's not just plain, like mixed into some chocolate bar like kit kat or something (do they even make kit kats??) and i HATE easter and christmas chocolate- all those red tulip bunnies and chocolate santas are incredibly repulsive

oh here's a story. my sister and a few of her friends once decided to see how long they could go without chocolate. that was over 2 years ago and she hasn't eaten any since! i'm like you are completely nuts, i love my chocolate and can't go for more than a day without it. oooh there's a chocolate society at uni that i'm tempted to join...

[faulty_damper]

Two years is nothing.  I knew two guys who went without chocolate for more than 15 years!  Stupid bet that went on way longer than both of them had thought and they both loved chocolate.

[trunks]

TOBLERONE, the triangular chocolate. My favourite.
ALMOND ROCA. I love it not because of the chocolate coating, but the caramel-flavoured crunchy core.
MILKA is not bad too.
Nestle's BACI. Because he loves it!

I hate dark chocolate, and they are even more of a hazard to dogs than milk chocolate.

[janice]

Now tea is a different matter. Anyone who drinks cheap tea (see: liptons) is a fool, and deserves to be shot!  

Just shoot me, then!!! I am totally addicted to iced tea and I am too much of an addict to think about QUALITY, I drink a huge QUANTITY of tea!  If I worried about quality, I'd go broke.  I use Liptons, but usually I get even cheaper ones than that!

<gasp>

Just shoot me, Peachy Keen!! LOL

[janice]

But let me add that I like fine things, and my favorite chocolate is Godiva.

[rph108]

I got a sampler chocolate thing in mexico with Lindt everything. My favorite is the one with a gianduja praline. I dont know what the hell it is, but I like it!

[Saturn]

Chocolate is vain!  (not white chocolate though)

[Shagdac]

I do not like ANYTHING sweet, that includes:

Chocolate
candy
pies
cookies
cakes
ice cream
fruit (except watermelon and grapes)
donuts
any bread that is sweet

sweet drinks are okay, as long as not a milkshake!

I don't think I've had chocolate or anything like that in over 30 years!

I do love tea though...but like Janbo...only ICE TEA....even instant is okay with me, w/ lemon preferably!

S

[janice]

I do love tea though...but like Janbo...only ICE TEA....even instant is okay with me, w/ lemon preferably!

Yup, I gotta have my iced tea!  I'm a hard-core addict so no sugar, lemon, or sweetner in it.  If I am in a restaurant and I get lemon slices with it, I love it!  But I don't make it a point to pick up lemons when I go to the store to get tea.  It's funny, because I even know what aisle (aisle 7) tea bags are at the local grocery store!  When it is a blizzard, sometimes we will pick up stuff at the store for friends or neighbors.  They all get a kick out of the fact that I know that tea bags are in aisle 7!

Sorry, I got off the subject of chocolate.  I have a friend from high school who now lives in Belgium (not sure what her job is--it has to do with International Relations) and she has brought me Belgium chocolate bars!  Yum!!  Now THAT is quality chocolate!

[mozartgonebad]

mmm...Godiva chocolate

[donjuan]

I have IBS, so I cant take too much chocolate, but I love a little Ferrero Rochier.  mmmmm....

[Spatula]

It's all the same to me

[trunks]

1. TOBLERONE, the triangular chocolate.
2. ALMOND ROCA. I love the butter scotch kernel.
3. BACI. Because he loves it. 

[kaziel illian]

I remember vacactioning to Belgium.  Mmmhhm.  I went into this little shop and they had all this chocolate that was unbelievably good (very expensive).  They did it all there (home-made).  The best thing was the box of truffles I bought.  For around $20 you could get a box of a around 8 peices of heaven.  The truffles I got: outside was made of very crispy dark chocolate shreddings and the inside a silky smooth light chocolate.  Best chocolate I've ever had...


!LL

[pianonut]

our neighbor just went to austria and brought us back some chocolates made by mirobell?  they were the kind that melt in your mouth and have several layers of different things.  (also, mozart was on the wrapper of each ball).  i wanted to see pictures, but once i tasted the chocolate promptly forgot.

[mikeyg]

I just ate a 7 oz. hershey bar.  I must say, I quite enjoyed it.  Bang-for-the-buck++.

[Daevren]

The more cacao in the chocolate the better. You could call me a chocolate purist or elitist.

I guess there are two different kinds of chocolate purists/elitists. One group who worship the pure power of chocolate and prefer chocolate with a high yield of cacao and prefer bars so its easy to eat and relatively cheap.

The second are people who worship not chocolate itself, but the skill of the people that make more complex filled chocolated, or bonbons.

To me the last is waste of chocolate. Milk chocolate is also a waste. And white chocolate, its a bar of soy-and-milkpouder with sugar. I can't see why someone would like that.

Also, people who don't like sweet stuff. Good chocolate has very little sugar and is not sweet.

[galonia]

Oh yes - dark chocolate - the darker the better.  Sugar just contaminates real chocolate.

[dinosaurtales]

I keep hearing about all these new diets - low carb, low fat, Atkins, South Beach, etc.  I have noticed that chocolate is not on ANY of them!  So I won't be going on any of those!

Needless to say, a day without chocolate is like a day without sunshine.  I, too, love hand made dark chocolate truffles, with or without nuts, milk chocolate, too.  I don't care.  Even though I prefer "exotic" chocolate, I have just downed a goodly chuck of a Hershey's Mr Goodbar, and I am happy as a clam.

[pianonut]

this may be a slightly off topic, but i just heard the overture to lady godiva (op. 41) by novak.