Favourite Chocolate?

[Tom]

What's your favourite chocolate? Mine's this:

 

[mattythedog]

My favourite, its simply Dairy Milk.

 

[Tom]

My favourite, its simply Dairy Milk.

A good choice, when I can't afford Lindt, I go for that instead.

 

[Crumpet]

Thorntons, because you get the option to have your name on it.

 

[noisiaturismo]

Either a white bar or filled with marzipan. Or regular brown.

 

[Epic B]

Charleston Chew. Those are good.

And yes, Dairy Milk is good. I once had an entire 200 gram "sharing bar". All of it. At once.

Whatever I may be eating at this time.

Too bad Mars doesn't have nuts anymore.

What's your favourite chocolate? Mine's this:

And of course I would say YES! I got a couple tubes of those for Christmas. Those are awesome.

 

[klassykid9801]

Lindt chocolate for me.

 

[Liquid]

Anything with either rice crispies, mint crunch or honeycomb in them.

 

[TankAss95]

Bournville. (I think that's how you spell it. )

 

[Skython]

Chocolate chocolate.

Now I think about it, the word chocolate sounds rather odd.

 

[Ross]

This:

 

[TankAss95]

Chocolate chocolate.

Now I think about it, the word chocolate sounds rather odd.

choc·o·late (chôk-lt, chôklt, chk-)
n.
1. Fermented, roasted, shelled, and ground cacao seeds, often combined with a sweetener or flavoring agent.
2. A beverage made by mixing water or milk with chocolate.
3. A small, chocolate-covered candy with a hard or soft center.
4. A grayish to deep reddish brown to deep grayish brown.

adj.
1. Made or flavored with chocolate: chocolate pudding.
2. Of a grayish to deep reddish brown to deep grayish brown.
[Spanish, from Nahuatl xocolatl : xococ, bitter + atl, water.]
choc·o·lat·y, choc·o·lat·ey (-l-t) adj.



CHOC-O-ATE Lol.

 

[Alain Prost Fan]

Kit Kat! Or if that doesn't count then it has to be Dairy Milk.

 

[F1 fan]

Glad to see a lack of "hershey's"

Dairy milk is always good.

 

[SRV2LOW4ME]

Glad to see a lack of "hershey's"

Hersheys is great if you're making s'mores on the fire. I've heard that old people like it though.

 

[Tom]

Glad to see a lack of "hershey's"

Dairy milk is always good.

Whilst I was in the Airport waiting for my flight home from America, I picked up a bar of Hershey's. It tasted like Rubber, it wasn't my cup of tea at all.

 

[F1 fan]

It's very waxy. Not my thing at all.

 

[Lissa]

This:

YES!!!!

If plain bar chocolate, then Galaxy. Dairy Milk is rubbish.

 

[Mike Rotch]

It's very waxy. Not my thing at all.

It is, you are not imagining it.

I went on a chocolate course recently, and the ingredients for a quality chocolate related to:

1) Percentage of cocoa content, and
2) Percentage of cocoa butter.

For a chocolate to be called a "chocolate" in Europe and the UK (whether it be Cadbury's or Leonidas handmade) the cocoa solids content must be >30%. In Australia it is 26% (which is why Cadbury's, for example, tastes sweeter here then the UK) and in the US this is a lowly ~10%. The reason for that is believed to be related to WWII.

During WWII, cocoa rations dictated a low cocoa content for soldiers allotment. However, after the war, the recipe was never changed but did still continue to sell strongly. When the US started marketing chocolates to Europe, the Swiss and French got upset that inferior products (as defined by cocoa content) were being called the same product as theirs, so got legislation changed to relate cocoa content to the word "chocolate". However the US manufacturers could not up the cocoa content of their US stuff as consumers found even a slight increase in cocoa content too hard to palate. So cocoa content in US "chocolate" remains incredibly low.

Cocoa butter plays into quality by dictating the melting point of chocolate. Higher percentage of cocoa butter means a lower melting point and a creamier taste and texture - or waxiness if used economically. However in hotter climates, this is a problem as product melts easily - which is why Cadbury's and such have lower CB content then handmade European varieties. People don't like melted slabs on the way back from the supermarket.

Additionally, cocoa butter is extremely scarce and in limited supply, and due to inclusion in a ever growing number of cosmetics, is also substituted using palm oil by large manufacturers these days .

As for my perferred choice - well, it isn't available in Australia Cote d'Or for regular store bought stuff, so I substitute this from Lindt:

 

[F1 fan]

@ Mike Rotch. Thanks for the lesson. That's my new thing learned for today. 👍

 

[Loon]

Hershey special dark is the best for me.

 

[Techy]

I like all kinds of chocolate, to be honest. But I wished I tasted homemade chocolate. But I have a soft side for white chocolate :3

 

[Camaroyenko]

Any chocolate


I like Twix or 3 Musketeers the most, probably.

 

[cjmpe]

If I need a quick fix from the local shop, I'll pick up a Cadbury Caramilk, but for the really good stuff I go for things like the Oaxaca Bar from Vosges Chocolates

 

[EliteDoom]

SO MANY CHOICES!! But whenever I go to America, I have Hershey's Special Dark, which may be the best. Or the new Lindt Dark Chocolate bar with Cinnamon and Coriander in it. But most of the time, any chocolate will do. Quite nicely.

 

[Rykon Zero]

Which we all know is obviously the best chocolate.

 

[Schwartz]

Aero Bars are great. I live in the US and you can only buy them in Canada, so every once in a blue moon when I go to Canada weather it be for hockey or something else, I make sure to buy some.

 

[Rykon Zero]

And I personally hate them with an unbridled passion. I might have gotten an old bar, or something, but I don't see the point in an Aero bar. Less chocolate somehow is awesome?

 

[Epic B]

you can only buy them in Canada

Aero is only available in Canada? I didn't realize that. Guess I'm lucky-I live in Canada.

Besides that, other chocolate I like? ALL OF IT. Ever tried a Milky Way bar? The caramel ones aren't bad.

 

[Schwartz]

Aero is only available in Canada? I didn't realize that. Guess I'm lucky-I live in Canada.

They aren't available in the US, that's for sure, but I'm not sure about the rest of the world. Can anyone else chime in on this?

And I personally hate them with an unbridled passion. I might have gotten an old bar, or something, but I don't see the point in an Aero bar. Less chocolate somehow is awesome?

Well its just like most other milk chocolate. The good part about the aero bar isn't the chocolate its self, it's the texture of it.