Type of chocolate???
 

I read an article (will post link if I can find it) that said that more people like dark chocolate over milk chocolate. I prefer dark chocolate and always get the special dark minitures from the bag.

I found this "fact" really surprising because I don't know anyone, besides me, who prefers dark chocolate over milk. The more bitter the better, in my book.

What kind do you prefer and do you have a particular brand that you enjoy?

Dark is good. Some of the Lindt single-country bars are very good (I don't care for their regular 70% bar, it has too much of a vanilla note). Valrhona makes some good ones if you can find them and they haven't been mistreated in shipping/storage. Scharffen-Berger is surprisingly good. Trader Joe's carries some Venezualan chocolate which is very good as well.

Dark is definitely bestest ... I do like the lindt, and enjoy the Hershey's Special Dark, even though I know it's not high quality dark chocolate. I really like the Ghirardelli Dark, the one the contains no milk products and is listed "for baking and eating" on the wrapper. I've had some unlabelled bulk dark from Fresh Fields that was quite yummy.

Dark Milky Way... Mmmmm... :yum:

I don't like the creamy nougat in those.

MILK MILK MILK chololate. Blech on dark chocolate. My hands down favorite is Ghirardelli, but Hershey's Symphony and Cadbury make pretty durn good cheap milk chocolate. I love eastertime when Cadbury brings out their candy eggs, I eat them like nobody's business. I only use milk choc chips in my cookies too, so there :) In general, I don't like bitter anything. My sweet tooth is T-Rex sized. There should be a poll on this, but I've never done one.

Wow, you could have written that for me.

Though I do like the creamy nougat as well.

I suspect that the popularity of milk chocolate is fuelled by the major candy companies. Milk chocolate is cheaper, so they put it in all of thir products, so people think that's the way chocolate is supposed to taste, and dark chocolate tastes wrong.

There's only 2 kinds of chocolate.
1- mine
2- ours
:lol:

I never was one for chocolate chocolate, I prefer white chocolate. I know it's not actually considered chocolate but it is made much the same way as regular chocolate. The only kind I don't like is the cheap stuff that's usually sold around Easter time. I think it's made with vegetable fat instead of real cocoa butter and tastes kind of waxy compared to the good creamy, more expensive stuff.

404, there is good easter candy.

Godiva makes bunnies. :)

I prefer milk chocolate, i've never been one for deep rich chocolate.... End up making me sick.

"Type of Chocolate"---ANY!~ :yum:

Count me in for white chocolate. Any kind at all. I cannot eat real chocolate anymore and even have trouble with Ovaltine. Cocoa makes me..uh.... unpleasant to be around.

Kinda like fine cigars hehehe

Brian

Dark chocolate , as the gods ( Myan or Aztec ??) intended !!!!!
No dairy involved !!!

I've never met a variety of chocolate I didn't like. My favorite time of year around here is any time when assortment packages of mini choco bars end up here in the house. My wife detests dark chocolate, so I get it *all*. Yowza!

I am staying in a hotel which has turn-down service, including the traditional chocolates on the pillow. It's a lovely thing to come back to your room to find after a hard day of conferencing and nibbling at the Concierge Lounge Buffet goodness.

My roommate is diabetic, so it's mine, all mine!!

as my friend would say in this topic: "Dark chocolate? Got Constipation?"

The only chocolate I don't like is white, find it too sickly.

Give me a good old bar of cadbury's though, I've heard people say the chocolate in america is completely different.

White chocolate is NOT chocolate. At all.

I did try Mexican chocolate. I found it pretty interesting, but only tried it once. I don't know if it was the same brand shown in the link, but it was in similar wrapping. I liked the idea of breaking the wedges from the disk. They are thicker than candy bars and the chocolate had a higher melting point. A good choice to carry around on a hot day.


What is interesting is that chocolate was used as currency. If I remember, 'pieces of eight' were slivers from a roundish coin. I don't know which came first, but it appears that the eight bits of chocolate have the same concept as the chocolate coins I see around Hanukkah.

From Wikipedia
And this would make a fine doodad for chocolate lovers.

damn, just reading this thread makes me want chocolate :(

True. However good white chocolate can be very good, and does taste like a mild chocolate.

Much of what you'll see labeled as white chocolate is actually white coating (fat, sugar and vanilla) and you are correct it has no relationship at all to chocolate. Good white chocolate is made with a healthy portion of cocoa butter. This is still technically not chocolate since it is not made from the solids of the cocoa bean, but is the liquid obtained from the bean.

The result tastes and smells like a mild chocolate. If it doesn't smell like chocolate, then what you have is white coating.

Many many years ago - before the 2nd world war - my mother worked at Carson's chocolate factory in Bristol. Carson's used to be famous for their very high quality chocolate liquers (that spelling doesn't sound right..) and they also produced wonderful hand iced chocolate Easter eggs which is what my mum did all year round. When she started work there she was told 'eat as much as you like but you can't take any home with you' and for a day or so she ate it by the handful, then of course stopped. During the war the same factory produced munitions and my mum's department changed from Easter eggs to making tank shells. Her everlasting chocolate favourite is now mine, Walnut Whips, which are not as good as they used to be but the memory lingers. Finger licking yummy.