Just because I say I prefer milk chocolate does not mean I dislike dark chocolate - I like chocolate of any sort, and dark chocolate is yummy. I just like milk chocolate more.
Okay … how does your preference on chocolate match with your preference for coffee (black vs with cream and sugar if at all), enjoying more bitter beers, or liking gin and tonic?
As someone who very much enjoys very dark chocolate, Guinness Stout, and gin and tonic, I am happy to read that enjoying bitter more may have the effect of “moderating both hunger and blood sugar” and is likely associated with eating more vegetables.
OTOH apparently we bitter preferers are also more likely to exhibit “Machiavellianism, psychopathy, narcissism, and everyday sadism” …
So we may live longer but meaner!
(I’d suggest taking these studies with a grain of salt but adding salt into the mix completely changes the flavor profiles!)
Well, to start, I don’t really like coffee… but if I am drinking coffee (maybe I really need a caffeine fix) I do take it with sugar.
I like tea with just a bit of sugar - the modern bottled/canned variety is way too sweet - or even unsweetened at all.
Back when I was drinking real beer (damn barley allergy…!) I liked the darker, more bitter versions better. I don’t like gin-and-tonic. I love most vegetables (except the ones that throw me into allergic shock) and in fact just devoured a bowl of vinegar slaw when I came home tonight in preference to something sweeter. I don’t want just sweet, I like bitter and sour flavors, too.
Not sure what exactly that says about me.
Anybody who knows me will probably assume I’m a dark chocolate kind of guy. I don’t really have a sweet tooth. I tend to like bitter and intense flavors. I like my coffee black, my beers hoppy or sour. I almost never eat dessert. But, for whatever reason, if I’m being honest with myself, when it comes to chocolate, I actually do prefer milk chocolate for eating out of hand. And, fucking A, I like Hershey’s, with its distinct, acidic (and even “vomit-like”) taste to it. I have no idea why, but when I want to treat myself to a sweet, I like proletarian milk chocolate. Gimme Hershey’s, Cadbury’s, Ritter Sports, Milkas, whatever. That’s my sweet indulgence. And I like white “chocolate.” Yes, I said it. Especially when paired with salt, like white chocolate pretzels.
I love dark chocolate, strong unsweetened black coffee, and, while I don’t drink alcohol, I drink tonic straight from time to time. (Fever Tree has an elderflower tonic I particularly enjoy.) I also like other quinine-containing drinks, such as Cock’N Bull Bitter Lemon and Bitter Orange, both of which use the whole fruit, pith, rind, and pulp.
And I eat preserved lemon, to get a salt fix in with my sour bitter lemony goodness.
I love spinach and Brussels sprouts and broccoli and have always felt that most of the hatred heaped on those foods was due to poor cooking. They really don’t stand up to being overcooked, and will turn to an inedible mush in the hands of an overzealous cook, so, as overcooking was once the fashion in the Anglosphere, their horrible reputation hangs on even as the current trend is towards minimal cooking and fresh ingredients.
I like dark chocolate when it’s paired with something tangy (like orange) or cool (like mint). Otherwise, I prefer milk chocolate, so rich you need a sip of coffee to cleanse the palate. The Swiss do this exceptionally well!
I prefer milk, will eat dark.
Pepper Mill loves dark with all her soul – the darker the better. I’ll get her those bars marked in the 80s and 90s of % cacao.
I like dark, milk, and white chocolate equally, but I’m dumbfounded by the thought that one must eat chocolate to be polite.
I’ll take dark chocolate, but only because you have no white chocolate. I’ll eat white chocolate until I am ill.
I like white chocolate. Hershey had a white chocolate & almonds bar that was very good. I haven’t seen it in the stores for a long time.
Kit Kat had a white chocolate version for awhile. I was disappointed that it was only available locally for about a year. It can still be found online.
That’s a dodge dieters use–guilty as charged. You wouldn’t believe how polite I am. 
As I stated above, I like Hershey’s milk chocolate, but there is an undercurrent of vomit flavor to it. Not everyone seems to be able to taste it, and even I don’t notice it all the time, but one day maybe ten to fifteen years ago I was eating a Hershey’s bar, and I tasted an acidic, vomit-y component to the flavor that I had never noticed before. (Most likely, it is because I had not had a Hershey’s bar in years at that point, having lived outside the US for half a decade or so). It tasted a little bit like that “afterflavor” you get in your mouth after throwing up. So I looked it up on the internet, and found that there are many people who notice that flavor, and that is exactly how they describe it. Apparently, it’s butyric acid that gives it that flavor (from some of the soured milk they use in it.)
But, yes, when some people say it tastes like vomit, they are being literal, not hyberbolic. There is a faint, vomit-like background flavor to it (or at least is detectable to some people.)
Credit where credit’s due: I believe I got that notion from (probably) your comments in a previous thread. Take a bow.
It would depend on what chocolate your serving. I prefer dark, but will get Cadbury’s Dairy Milk whenever I can.
The darker the better. I’ve been known to eat baker’s (100% cacao) chocolate on occasion.
dark. In fact, the Dove “red” square ones are my favorite.
when I was a kid the only one I really liked was Hershey’s milk chocolate (the stuff in the iconic brown wrapper,) now I can’t even eat it.
Yep, probably years ago. I think growing up with it, we don’t really notice or just become accustomed to it. People who did not grow up in the US seem to notice it the most. Like I said, I myself don’t always taste it–the background flavors my tastebuds detect seem to vary a little bit from day to day (and this goes with all foods), but that one day I first tasted it, it was so clear and obvious.
I’ll take one 99% milkless dark and one white chocolate to balance it and leave the milk chocolate behind.
Regularly purchase;
Dove Dark minis.
Endangered Species dark chocolate (the blueberry or cherry bars)
Lindt
Have part of a 90% bar in the fridge (where I keep my chocolate).
Can’t stand milk chocolate anymore. Tastes like peanut oil to me.
Dark chocolate for me, as mentioned upthread.
Coffee: Pass on coffee, but I love chocolate-covered coffee beans. I will drink a cold mocha beverage if nothing else is available, so usually sweet.
Tea- unsweet iced tea (as they say 'round here), no sugar in hot teas.
Beer- dark beers, love Guinness Extra Stout or New Belgium 1554. IPAs are absolute shit- I hate them with the heat of a thousand suns.
Haven’t had a gin and tonic in 15 years or more- might have pick some up and give it a go this weekend.
Love pretty much all forms of B. oleracea, and would live on broccoli if it was possible to do so.