# Chocolate what??? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 17, 2019, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chocolate-what/827904 "2019-01-17T00:01:42Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![EddyTeddyFreddy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eddyteddyfreddy/32/18796_2.png) [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2019, 4:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chocolate-what/827904/21 "2019-01-18T04:23:24Z")
> [@Regallag\_The\_Axe](#): > > Ugh, this is sriracha beer all over again. You can’t just take two good things and slam 'em together like that! What’s next, garlic donuts? > > _storms off muttering to himself_ I would have agreed with you, till a friend told me about it, someone whose judgment I trust. So I tried it, and good grief – it really did work! ---
**Author:** ![EddyTeddyFreddy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eddyteddyfreddy/32/18796_2.png) [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2019, 4:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chocolate-what/827904/22 "2019-01-18T04:30:52Z")
> [@Beckdawrek](#): > > Really?, now that just not fair. I hate you peeps. All those choices and multiple places to shop. 😉 You’re really going to hate me: I live in a semi-rural/exurban/suburban town north of Boston, and within a 15-to-20-minute drive there are three large and two medium-size supermarkets. Ah, well. If you can’t conveniently find the stuff in your local market(s), Google offers a plethora of recipes for making your own. ---
**Author:** ![EddyTeddyFreddy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eddyteddyfreddy/32/18796_2.png) [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2019, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chocolate-what/827904/23 "2019-01-18T23:20:21Z")
And in today’s supermarket expeditions I discovered that Joseph’s isn’t the only purveyor of chocolate hommus; both Cedar’s and Tribe offer a dark chocolate hommus as well. Having stuffed myself with trying three other hommus varieties when I got home, I am holding off trying them until it’s dessert time this evening. Who knew hommus could be so exciting? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2019, 11:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chocolate-what/827904/24 "2019-01-18T23:37:11Z")
Oh, god. I’m swooning. Quit talking! ---
**Author:** ![EddyTeddyFreddy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eddyteddyfreddy/32/18796_2.png) [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2019, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chocolate-what/827904/25 "2019-01-19T00:01:01Z")
All right, then, **Beck** , I’ll shut my piehole. 🆒 For now. Back in a couple of hours with an update on the two new varieties. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2019, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chocolate-what/827904/26 "2019-01-19T00:27:52Z")
> [@EddyTeddyFreddy](#): > > And in today’s supermarket expeditions I discovered that Joseph’s isn’t the only purveyor of chocolate hommus; both Cedar’s and Tribe offer a dark chocolate hommus as well. Sabra makes the stuff, too. Great with Ritz crackers. ---
**Author:** ![Periwinkle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Periwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Periwinkle)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2019, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chocolate-what/827904/27 "2019-01-19T00:39:41Z")
> [@Hari\_Seldon](#): > > My wife and I have one chocolate truffle apiece every night after supper. A period on the day’s eating. Been doing it for 15 years and lost about 80 pounds in the first seven years and kept them off since. Huge kudos to you, that is a wonderful accomplishment! I saw “Brownie Batter” hummus last time I was at Target, I will have to pick it up next time. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2019, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chocolate-what/827904/28 "2019-01-19T00:47:51Z")
Fingers in ears::::na-na-na-na-na::::::😉 ---
**Author:** ![EddyTeddyFreddy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eddyteddyfreddy/32/18796_2.png) [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2019, 5:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chocolate-what/827904/29 "2019-01-21T05:38:25Z")
Reporting in from supermarket expeditions: I now have tried five different brands of chocolate hommus: Sabra, Joseph’s, Cedar’s, Boar’s Head, and Tribe. They were all good, but Tribe’s was best: darker than the others, a definite dark chocolate flavor, and very smooth. Also, it’s only 40 calories per two-tablespoon serving while the others are 80. Meanwhile, I have also discovered Sabra’s caramelized onion hommus, which is to die for. Their pine nut hommus ain’t too shabby, either. Now I’m taking a break from hommus to enjoy some Icelandic Provisions [skyr](https://www.icelandicprovisions.com/what-is-skyr/) (a yogurt-like dairy product), key lime flavor. Going to see if the store also carries their coconut skyr, next time I go shopping. Hurrah for globalization if it can bring us such gustatory delights! ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2019, 5:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chocolate-what/827904/30 "2019-01-21T05:55:12Z")
You are a mean man. ---
**Author:** ![EddyTeddyFreddy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eddyteddyfreddy/32/18796_2.png) [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2019, 6:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chocolate-what/827904/31 "2019-01-21T06:04:42Z")
Woman, actually. Eddy, Teddy, and Freddy were three orange tiger boys I adopted at four months old from a local rescue (“Adopt two, get one free!”). Grew up to be magnificent, funny, loving, gigantic cats. All over the bridge now, alas. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2019, 6:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chocolate-what/827904/32 "2019-01-21T06:46:55Z")
Well, then you’re not so bad. It’s a chocolate thang. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2019, 6:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chocolate-what/827904/33 "2019-01-21T06:56:15Z")
I bought a bag of Chocolate covered Cinnamon Gummi Bears from the discount bin. I understand now why they were in there. ---
**Author:** ![EddyTeddyFreddy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eddyteddyfreddy/32/18796_2.png) [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2019, 7:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chocolate-what/827904/34 "2019-01-21T07:12:26Z")
> [@Gatopescado](#): > > I bought a bag of Chocolate covered Cinnamon Gummi Bears from the discount bin. > > I understand now why they were in there. :eek: _gags_ ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2019, 7:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chocolate-what/827904/35 "2019-01-21T07:46:44Z")
I like to say I will eat anything covered in chocolate. But cinnamon gummy bears in chocolate? Don’t think so. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2019, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chocolate-what/827904/36 "2019-01-23T20:09:53Z")
I was counting on you to take them off my hands. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2019, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chocolate-what/827904/37 "2019-01-23T20:52:44Z")
^ Now, you are a mean mean man. Don’t tempt me to try them. Dig 'em out of the trash and mail them to me. I’m hungry for chocolate covered anything. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2019, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chocolate-what/827904/38 "2019-01-23T20:58:12Z")
> [@EddyTeddyFreddy](#): > > OMG I am doomed, doomed I tell you! > > I’m trying to eliminate sweet treats from my life, trying to desugar, having fallen off the healthy eating wagon lately and been indulging in Reese’s peanut butter cups and the somewhat healthier but still massively caloric Justin’s chocolate - hazelnut - almond spread – spooning it right out of the jar, sigh. I’ve stopped buying them, ignored any cravings… > > And then a friend told me about chocolate hommus. > > Chocolate hommus. > > Delicious, nutritious [CHOCOLATE HOMMUS from Joseph’s.](https://www.instacart.com/stop-shop/products/18493842-joseph-s-hommus-dip-chocolate-16-oz) > > I thought at first, “Hommus? And chocolate? How can this be?” But I was at the supermarket today, and found it in the hummus/hommus case, so I decided, what the heck, why not give it a try? I got home, unloaded it, pulled the lid off, sampled it… > > :eek: OMG OMG OMG OMG :eek: > > Please, please stop me from sitting down with an 8 ounce container and a spoon and gobbling the whole thing at one sitting. Granted it’s lower-calory and lower-fat per spoonful than the Justin’s nut butter, but still! > > I also picked up a container of [Cedar’s balsamic caramelized onion hommus](https://www.cedarsfoods.com/balsamic-caramelized-onion-hommus), and by golly that’s hella good too. I’d be noshing on it right now, except I’ve been noshing on it and my little dish of crackers for scooping it up is empty… “Hommus?” Is that a regional spelling? ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2019, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chocolate-what/827904/39 "2019-01-23T21:59:01Z")
> [@kaylasdad99](#): > > “Hommus?” > > Is that a regional spelling? That is one of the many variants. _Hummus_ is the most common, but you’ll also finnd _houmous_, _humus_, _hommus_, and _hommos_. For example, [here’s a commercial “hommus”](https://www.cedarsfoods.com/balsamic-caramelized-onion-hommus). It’s a word that comes from a non-Roman alphabet language, so you’re going to see lots of variants. See also Qadafi, for one of the better known examples. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2019, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chocolate-what/827904/40 "2019-03-01T17:09:07Z")
Boar’s Head has chocolate mint now. Haven’t tried it yet. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chocolate-what/827904.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chocolate-what/827904.md?page=3)