# The emperor's new chocolate

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**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [February 11, 2007, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-emperors-new-chocolate/391758 "2007-02-11T19:48:12Z")\
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**Author:** ![hawthorne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c89c15/32.png) [@hawthorne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hawthorne)\
**Post date:** [February 13, 2007, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-emperors-new-chocolate/391758/21 "2007-02-13T15:15:40Z")

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That’s kind of interesting, **Elendil’s Heir** , because there’s _another_ Dahl story where a supposed expert makes a bet at a dinner party that he can guess blind the vineyard and vintage of a wine. The bet turns out to be the hand of the party giver’s daughter. And the expert is revealed to be a cheat.

A lot of short stories are written off templates.

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**Author:** ![SCSimmons](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e495f1/32.png) [@SCSimmons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SCSimmons)\
**Post date:** [February 14, 2007, 3:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-emperors-new-chocolate/391758/22 "2007-02-14T03:08:37Z")

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[QUOTE=Bambi Hassenpfeffer]  
… in the blog article, you can see bloom …  
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_Bloom!?_ :dubious: How long are they storing this stuff before shipping it? And in what conditions?

If they didn’t have pictures, I wouldn’t believe it. That is so easy to prevent! Are we positive the photographer didn’t leave it sitting open for a few days before taking the pictures? Chocolate is _not_ supposed to look like that coming out of the box, not when it’s coming from an alleged ‘high-end’ chocolatier …

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**Author:** ![Bambi\_Hassenpfeffer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Bambi\_Hassenpfeffer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bambi_Hassenpfeffer)\
**Post date:** [February 14, 2007, 4:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-emperors-new-chocolate/391758/23 "2007-02-14T04:45:44Z")

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[QUOTE=SCSimmons]  
_Bloom!?_ :dubious: How long are they storing this stuff before shipping it? And in what conditions?  
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[Bloom](http://www.dallasfood.org/photos/noka/nokabloomdetail.jpg). [Poor tempering](http://www.dallasfood.org/photos/noka/nokathreepiecestobarcomparisontwo.jpg). [Sloppy construction](http://www.nokachocolate.com/grandcrutruffles.html).

It’s just shoddy work all around.

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