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I've seen people talk about the hierarchy of chocolate quality, with Hershey on the bottom, one step above "dirt" or "chalk". Or maybe not above. I'd never been that sensitive, but I haven't eaten much Hershey's.
Well, tonight I'd finished a couple of bars of Endangered Species chocolate (no, I didn't eat two whole bars; I tend to have multiple flavors which I nibble on over days, and happened to finish both off) and decided to open a Mr. Goodbar I'd gotten free from Gamer's Guild (someone using up his mealpoints in donations to the Guild.)
BLEAHCH. It was not appetizing, apart from being sweet. A gritty texture seems the biggest thing I can articulately charge it with, but it felt crappy. Of course, it was milk chocolate with peanuts, and I've been eating dark (or white) chocolate, and I knew it was Hershey's -- hardly a blind controlled test. Still, I think I can imagine good milk chocolate with peanuts, and that wasn't it.
So I threw it out and opened a couple more bars to clean out my mouth.
Tangentially, a bowl of miso is suprisingly filling.
Well, tonight I'd finished a couple of bars of Endangered Species chocolate (no, I didn't eat two whole bars; I tend to have multiple flavors which I nibble on over days, and happened to finish both off) and decided to open a Mr. Goodbar I'd gotten free from Gamer's Guild (someone using up his mealpoints in donations to the Guild.)
BLEAHCH. It was not appetizing, apart from being sweet. A gritty texture seems the biggest thing I can articulately charge it with, but it felt crappy. Of course, it was milk chocolate with peanuts, and I've been eating dark (or white) chocolate, and I knew it was Hershey's -- hardly a blind controlled test. Still, I think I can imagine good milk chocolate with peanuts, and that wasn't it.
So I threw it out and opened a couple more bars to clean out my mouth.
Tangentially, a bowl of miso is suprisingly filling.
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Date: 2006-05-01 14:46 (UTC)From:it doesn't say that anymore, and you don't hear about american chocolate tasting waxy.
guess what it says now? (presumably instead)? lactose. they all use lactose as a filler now: hershies, nestles etc...
(smiles) which leaves me feeling somewhat intolerant of main stream american chocolate.
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Date: 2006-05-02 03:59 (UTC)From:*compares ingredients*
Why, you're right. Lactose and milk and milkpowder (nonfat). Well, I guess it was milk chocolate.
While Green&Black has little besides sugar, chocolate, soy lecithin, and vanilla. And cocoa nibs.
Everything has soy lecithin for an emulsifier.
The G&B white chocolate has whole milk powder, but tastes really really good. Extra vanilla, maybe.
I guess there's also some factor of quality of the cocoa itself, or how it's prepared, not captured by the ingredients.