I go with bitter=sweet or maybe semi-sweet, and milk chocolate only comes in icky-sweet.
I’m a supertaster so dark chocolate is horribly bitter. OTOH, milk chocolate is just glorious to an extent even regular chocolate lovers don’t understand.
Is it possible that milk chocolate to you tastes about the same as dark chocolate does to all of us normal-tasters?
A preference for dark chocolate is one of those things I have found a lot of people tend to lie about or just think they have a preference. I used to put chocolates out for a group. Polling indicated dark would be more popular. The milks chocolate goes at a rate at least 90% higher than the dark. Maybe dark chocolate eaters just eat less chocolate.
I’m a supertaster too, and I find most dark chocolate to be bitter, but not intolerably so. However I also am over-sensitive to sweet things, so I can only handle mild sweetness. That means if I was to have a sweet milk chocolate with, say, marshmallow, I find it sickly, but if it was dark chocolate and marshmallow they blend together well.
*Chocolate Royals are like Mallomars, or Tunnock Teacakes
I have put this up to almost the level of urban legend, or at least on the lines of “nobody on the planet should eat anything peanut based”. There may be cases of extreme reactions, but I don’t believe it is on the level of all dogs will die if given chocolate. I have always given my dogs chocolate treats with no problems. Once had a dog that was the equivalent of 8 months doggy pregnant that ate half of a choclate cake with fudge frosting (not my choosing, she climbed on the table while I was away). No problems with her or the puppies.
As for my preferences of chocolate, any chocolate based food is good, but the darker the better. There are some beers that through the brewing process (no chocolate added) have a very chocolate taste. Very interesting for the occasional treat.
As I understand it, theobromine (the relevant component in chocolate) is more toxic to dogs than to humans, on a per-weight basis, but only by a factor of two or so. That is to say, if your dog is half your weight, it can safely eat a quarter as much chocolate as you can. The only reason it’s dangerous to dogs at all is that dogs don’t eat in moderation, and will happily down ten pounds of chocolate in a sitting.
The discount store I work at recently sent us 5 boxes, each containing 100 bars of Hershey’s milk chocolate. When we opened them, the smell was overwhelming. I thought I was going to vomit.
We’re selling them for 39 cents each.
Dark chocolate is the best!
So good for you it is practically a superfood.
Less fat than milk chocolate, and the higher the cacao percentage the higher the anti-oxidant levels.