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Chocolates ranked by Gourmet Magazine. Why no Godiva on the list? I thought they were a very popular brand of super premium chocolates.
What, no Lake Champlain? No Euphoria?
And what happened to the M&M’s?
The 85% variety is as low-carb and low-sugar as chocolate comes without a) tasting like shoe rubber and b) causing intense gastric distress. Plus it gives that lingering powdery aftertaste when you lick your chops. A few squares of that with tea after a good meal is an ogsend.
Godiva is overrated and is now owned by Hershey. Glad to see Scharffen Berger on there.
Yep. It’s decent compared to your average bar of Hershey crap, but you generally don’t find Godiva bars in specialized chocolate shops that cater to connoiseurs. But it’s owned by Campbell Soups.
Recently bought out by Hershey ;). But good chocolate.
- Tamerlane
I can’t help wondering if they were tasting American Cadbury’s or English Cadbury’s. They’re two distinct styles of blandwaxy sweetness, and the waxy is definitely more predominant in the American manufactured stuff.
Great list. I want to try more of the entries on it, I’ve had Valrhona, Scharffen Berger and Callebaut of some description but couldn’t swear I’ve had those exact products, and aside from the lindt, the rest of the top of the list I’ve never seen in stores. I’ll have to keep my eye out. I don’t understand why they rated 11 so highly though if it’s only “sweet and inoffensive.”
Yeah, but it’s still got to be better than Nestle or a Hershey bar! I think it wasn’t included because Godiva isn’t known for bar chocolate as much as filled chocolates (swoon) and truffles.
Super premium? I’d say they’re above the Hershey’s/Nestle’s tier, up there with stuff like Dove. I wouldn’t classify it as premium, though, let alone “super premium”.
I didn’t know Hersheys now owned Godiva. That explains our last visit to Godiva - we each enthusiastically bought our favorite piece, ate them, and then asked each other, “Is it me or does this stuff taste like crap now?”
Yeah, I can’t stand Godiva now. That would make me sad, but there’s another chocolatier in the same area as the Godiva I used to go to, and OMG are they good.
But even if Godiva isn’t top of the line, it at least has a reputation among the ignorant masses, which should earn it a place on the list, if only to say that it doesn’t live up to its hype. And they were willing to include the two biggest mass-market perfectly ordinary chocolate brands, too, so it wasn’t an attitude of “we’ll only even include the best”.
It used to be exclusive and IIRC available at only two places in the US. (Luckily for my girlfriend at the time, one of those was South Coast Plaza).
Now that they’ve gone mass-marketed, the quality has gone downhill and now I’d prefer a good bar of Ghirardellis or make my own See’s candy box (or order some Frangos from Seattle).
Lindt sells plain chocolate? Huh. Must be hidden away behind all the truffles.
Anyone know how I can get a job as an official chocolate taster? 