# Dark chocolate or milk chocolate? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [June 11, 2003, 3:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dark-chocolate-or-milk-chocolate/181031 "2003-06-11T03:18:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2003, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dark-chocolate-or-milk-chocolate/181031/41 "2003-06-11T16:56:28Z")
Dark. I eat four squares of Hershey’s Special Dark every day to wash down my lunch. ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2003, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dark-chocolate-or-milk-chocolate/181031/42 "2003-06-11T16:58:40Z")
Dark. Though Cadbury Dairy Milk comes close (though this has lost its luster since Cadbury added a dark). ---
**Author:** ![Scribble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scribble/32/3317_2.png) [@Scribble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scribble)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2003, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dark-chocolate-or-milk-chocolate/181031/43 "2003-06-11T16:59:48Z")
Dark, dark, dark!!! No question. Dark and of good quality–Ghirardelli, Lindt, or even Dove (even though that’s a very different kind of chocolate.) That’s not to say that milk chocolate, and even cheap milk chocolate, or chocolate-like objects (CLOs–think of sixlets) don’t have their place, or aren’t tasty at times. But I’ll take good dark chocolate any day. Crud. Now I’m hungry. ---
**Author:** ![Angua](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8baadc/32.png) [@Angua](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Angua)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2003, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dark-chocolate-or-milk-chocolate/181031/44 "2003-06-11T17:03:23Z")
Cadbury _added_ a dark? We’ve had Bournville (Cadbury’s dark chocolate, not the area of Birmingham in which the Cadbury’s factory and Cadbury Land is situated) for as long as I can remember (20+years). ---
**Author:** ![VunderBob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/839c29/32.png) [@VunderBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VunderBob)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2003, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dark-chocolate-or-milk-chocolate/181031/45 "2003-06-11T17:06:49Z")
DARK!!! ---
**Author:** ![El\_Elvis\_Rojo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/898d66/32.png) [@El\_Elvis\_Rojo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Elvis_Rojo)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2003, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dark-chocolate-or-milk-chocolate/181031/46 "2003-06-11T17:10:53Z")
Big fan of Dark Chocolate. ---
**Author:** ![Drabble](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/8491ac/32.png) [@Drabble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drabble)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2003, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dark-chocolate-or-milk-chocolate/181031/47 "2003-06-11T17:22:45Z")
Kinda both, but if I had to choose, I would take the dark. ---
**Author:** ![dorkusmalorkusmafia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dorkusmalorkusmafia/32/7266_2.png) [@dorkusmalorkusmafia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dorkusmalorkusmafia)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2003, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dark-chocolate-or-milk-chocolate/181031/48 "2003-06-11T18:03:15Z")
I like both Dark and Milk Chocolate. If I am going to eat chocolate by itself I prefer dark chocolate. If I eat it in a candy bar, depending on what it is, I prefer milk chocolate. White chocolate is the devil’s sperm. Blech. It’s vomity delicious. ---
**Author:** ![Duckster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/duckster/32/1244_2.png) [@Duckster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duckster)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2003, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dark-chocolate-or-milk-chocolate/181031/49 "2003-06-11T18:28:42Z")
It’s official! As of January 1, 2004, [white chocolate is not chocolate](http://vm.cfsan.fda.gov/~lrd/fr021004.html) under an FDA ruling. It is defined as a “semiplastic food …” 😃 ---
**Author:** ![OxyMoron](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/e9a140/32.png) [@OxyMoron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OxyMoron)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2003, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dark-chocolate-or-milk-chocolate/181031/50 "2003-06-11T19:23:16Z")
**Angua** , here in the U.S. Cadbury’s dark is new, and not very good, I’m afraid - but everyone I know who’s had Cadbury’s of any kind in both the UK and the US says the US version is vastly inferior. Doesn’t seem to matter which bar, they’re all worse - probably because they’re actually made by Hershey’s under license. Anyway, I also prefer dark - old, el-cheapo Hershey’s Special is a favorite, and consistently tests well in _Cook’s Illustrated_. Valhrona is exquisit, wonderful berry hints. But a good milk chocolate is also nice, from time to time. ---
**Author:** ![Super\_Gnat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e274bd/32.png) [@Super\_Gnat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Super_Gnat)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2003, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dark-chocolate-or-milk-chocolate/181031/51 "2003-06-11T19:32:30Z")
I likes it dark, but will eat milk chocolate. White is good for about two bites, then it gets too cloying. I must admit though, I’ve never had expensive chocolate of any kind, in case that matters. Oddly enough, I like my coffee and tea with massive, coma-inducing amounts of sugar. Don’t like the pink bag stuff though–too saccharine. ---
**Author:** ![DeVena](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/dec6dc/32.png) [@DeVena](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DeVena)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2003, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dark-chocolate-or-milk-chocolate/181031/52 "2003-06-11T19:42:06Z")
Dark. Oh please God DARK! Milk chocolate is only meant to be a carrier for peanut butter or nuts or some-such. A totally different craving. And here in Montgomery, most chocolate is banned until mid-october on accout of heat. And now Ima gonna find me some dark chocolate syrup! (I didn’t know it existed!) White “chocolate” is merely sweetened cocoa butter. blech ---
**Author:** ![Balance](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ccd318/32.png) [@Balance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Balance)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2003, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dark-chocolate-or-milk-chocolate/181031/53 "2003-06-11T19:49:38Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by calm kiwi \* > Just curious would other dark choccy lovers consider themselves ‘sweet’ or savoury’ people? I always seek out savoury more then sweet and I think that is part of the reason dark chocolate is so satisfying, it’s the flavour not the sugar craving. I’m not sure that you’ll get anywhere with the savoury/dark-sweet/milk connection. I go for savoury scents and flavors, but I prefer milk chocolate. I like dark as well, but often find it too bitter for me–I’m particularly sensitive to bitter flavors in all foods, not just chocolate, so perhaps that’s the reason. **Jomo Mojo** , I found a couple of recipes for Aztec hot chocolate. The first seems closest to authentic, but rather unpalatable. Recipe 1: 1 ounce unsweetened baking chocolate 1 teaspoon vanilla 2/3 cup boiling water ground pepper or chilis to taste Grate the chocolate into a bowl and cover it with a little of the boiling water. Mash the mixture into a paste. Add the remaining water and the vanilla and beat until frothy. Add a dash of ground chili pepper (be careful, the stuff can be _potent_ when added to such a small volume). The chocolate won’t dissolve completely, so the resulting drink will be somewhat gritty. Recipe 2 (This sounds rather better.): 2 cups boiling water 1 chili pepper 5 cups light cream or whole milk 1 vanilla bean 8 ounces bittersweet chocolate (in 1/4" pieces) 2 tablespoons honey Split the chili pepper in half and remove the seeds (use gloves and don’t touch your face). Add pepper to boiling water over medium-high heat. Boil until only half the water (1 cup) remains. Remove the pepper, then strain the water and set it aside. Split the vanilla bean and add it to the cream in a medium sauce pan. Cook over medium heat until bubbles begin to appear. Reduce heat to low and add chocolate and honey. Whisk occasionally until chocolate is melted. Turn off heat and remove vanilla bean. Add the pepper infusion a little at a time, to taste. Additional honey may be added to taste. I suppose you could subtitute water for the cream if you were really adamant about not having dairy products in your chocolate. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Angua](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8baadc/32.png) [@Angua](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Angua)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2003, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dark-chocolate-or-milk-chocolate/181031/54 "2003-06-11T23:01:31Z")
Ah. That explains a lot. I had Hershey’s once, and almost threw up. Now, if you’d tried _real_ Cadbury’s dark, then you’d be in 6th heaven. 7th heaven is attained only by Green and Back’s organic dark chocolate. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Ally424](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/82dd89/32.png) [@Ally424](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ally424)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2003, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dark-chocolate-or-milk-chocolate/181031/55 "2003-06-12T00:14:42Z")
I like milk chocolate much more than dark, but I will eat both. I love chocolate, hehe. ---
**Author:** ![Davebear](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bcef8e/32.png) [@Davebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Davebear)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2003, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dark-chocolate-or-milk-chocolate/181031/56 "2003-06-12T00:29:55Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by gwendee \* > \*\*I _prefer_ dark chocolate but not to the exclusion of milk. If it has stuff in it (Butterfinger Bells at Christmas time, etc. I like milk chocolate just fine. Plain chocolate is a different story. Dark all the way. Sometimes I fill the candy bowl at work with Dove Promises. I agree with **Davebear** they have a very pleasing texture. \*\* Riiight! Promises. _That’s_ what they’re called. I can never remember, so I call them Bites, because they’re bite-size. > [@](#): > > \*\*Rice or nuts don’t bother me but raisins, feh! The Dark Kit Kat didn’t win me over. I do like Milky Way Dark though (or Midnite I think they call it now). \*\* I don’t mind any of those inclusions, but I like to know about them in advance. I don’t like surprises in my chocolate. And, personally, I consider Kit Kat’s a cookie, not a candy bar, although I know I’m in a very small minority on this one. But, the Milky Way Dark/Midnight is surprisingly good. > [@](#): > > \*\*I don’t drink coffee at all and if I were ever going to it would have to be almost half milk with about 4 sugars. BF, who does drink his coffee black with no sugar does not like chocolate much. > > I don’t care for white chocolate at all. \*\* Wow! Another non-coffee drinker, who doesn’t like white chocolate! If you hadn’t mentioned a boyfriend, I’d have asked you to marry me. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![quinoa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/a9adbd/32.png) [@quinoa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/quinoa)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2003, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dark-chocolate-or-milk-chocolate/181031/57 "2003-06-12T01:18:44Z")
dark! love dove dark… and there’s this [evil coffee-dark truffley chocolate bar](http://www.chocolat.com/product.asp?3=108) made by ritter sport. yummmmm but, even though i don’t really like milk chocolate, i do admit to loving kinderbueno, which uses milk chocolate. but it’s just because it has hazelnutty goo! hazelnutty goo mmmm… ---
**Author:** ![Johanna](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johanna/32/8318_2.png) [@Johanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johanna)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2003, 1:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dark-chocolate-or-milk-chocolate/181031/58 "2003-06-12T01:38:28Z")
Thanks for the recipes, **Balance**! I was hoping that modern technology would somehow come up with a way for us Darkistas to enjoy black hot chocolate, some way for the chocolate to be dissolved in nondairy liquid and also taste good. Still waiting, still hoping… Samuel Pepys wrote in his diary, November 1664: > [@](#): > > **to the Coffee-House, to drink Jocolatte; very good** Was it milked up in those days? Probably it was; the milk fat allowed for better dissolution of the cacao. Doesn’t “Jocolatte” sound like some silly barista’s idea of a new trendy drink? ---
**Author:** ![Johanna](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johanna/32/8318_2.png) [@Johanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johanna)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2003, 1:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dark-chocolate-or-milk-chocolate/181031/59 "2003-06-12T01:45:24Z")
I googled around and found this: Share this recipe with a friend The Recipe Exchange October 26, 2000 Aztec Hot Chocolate ``` 2 cups water 1 tablespoon sugar 1 tablespoon honey Pinch of ground ginger 2 whole cloves or dash of ground cloves Few grains of red pepper or crushed red pepper (optional) 1/4 cup unsweetened cocoa 1 teaspoon vanilla extract In a small saucepan, combine water, sugar, honey, ginger, cloves and red pepper. Heat to boiling over medium-high heat. Reduce to medium and simmer 3 minutes. Remove from heat. With wire whisk, stir in cocoa and vanilla. Stir briskly until frothy. Strain into warm cups. Makes 2 to 3 servings. Per serving: 70 calories; 1 g fat (0.5 g saturated fat; 12 percent calories from fat); 17 g carbohydrates; 0 mg cholesterol; 102 mg sodium; 66 mg calcium; 3 g fiber. ``` I’m gonna try it. Yum-yum. ---
**Author:** ![amarinth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3be4f8/32.png) [@amarinth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/amarinth)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2003, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dark-chocolate-or-milk-chocolate/181031/60 "2003-06-12T01:48:56Z")
Milk! Sorry, dark is just too bitter and nasty tasting - I’m not even really tempted by dark chocolate. (Even if I’m on an eat anything binge, I have to think about it (sometimes it gets eaten). But usually, it kind of sits.) I used to love the Hershey’s Symphony that had double the milk… it was creamy and delicious and wonderful (especially the kind with caramel… bliss). [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dark-chocolate-or-milk-chocolate/181031.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dark-chocolate-or-milk-chocolate/181031.md?page=4)