Or a little like vanilla pudding. Sort of.
I’m a white chocolate lover. And the option in the poll certainly resonates with me. I went into one of the major chocolate shops here one day to see whether it sold any white chocolate products (none was obvious in the windows). The sales assistant said much the same thing to me…“of course we don’t sell white chocolate. It’s not even real chocolate. Who eats that rubbish anyway?”
Needless to say, I’ve never been back into that shop. And whenever its name is mentioned, I pass on that example of appalling customer service.
Someone totally dressed me down for liking white chocolate one, citing the “It’s not even real chocolate” crap.
Oh. Then I guess I don’t like it after all. And thanks so much for being a bitch.
You know, I keep seeing this sort of thing from you. And I almost never see you bragging about eating stuff you found on the ground under a pile of wet leaves. One of these days you’re going to have to change you name. You realize that, right?
Not sure what you mean. I eat what I eat because it’s interesting, and write about it because I think(hope) people find the information useful or interesting. I do take a certain pleasure from pursuing the unconventional, but that’s not really the same - I’m just blundering my way through it all, trying to fend off boredom. - and if I really don’t like something, I’ll say so (even if everyone else thinks it’s cool) - also, if I like something, I’ll admit it even if everyone else despises it.
The 90% cocoa chocolate thing is like the Emperor’s New Clothes. I’m pretty sure a lot of people are gagging on it and only saying they like it because they think that makes them sound refined or sophisticated.
70-80% dark chocolate.
I love dark chocolate and generally do not like milk or white chocolate.
I don’t get the white chocolate hate. I’m not a big fan, but the “It’s not real chocolate” is kind of dumb. White chocolate is sweetened cocoa butter. You know, cocoa butter, from cacao beans. So while it doesn’t have everything a cacao bean has to offer, it still is mostly comprised of cacao bean parts. Pretty much like dark chocolate and even more so than milk chocolate. It melts like dark chocolate. It needs to be tempered like dark chocolate. I think most chocolates add extra cocoa butter to them to make the desired consistency and taste. So even the ‘real’ chocolates don’t have the exact proportion of cocoa butter to cocoa powder ratio.
And of course there is milk chocolate which adds MILK which is clearly not from cacao.
I think the designation that white chocolate isn’t chocolate is a made up designation. Sort of like saying a tomato is a vegetable simply because someone said so.
As for the really bitter chocolates. I like them, but each brand is different. I’ve had 75% chocolates that needed more sugar and I’ve had 90% chocolates that were delicious. It also depends on what you’ve eaten recently. Tasting 90% after drinking some soda would be gross. But 90% with strong black coffee might be fine.
When they’re like me, no. It means that I don’t have a very good sense of taste so I can tolerate some extremely bitter stuff that other people find overpowering.
But thanks for calling me a liar. I appreciate it.
Did I declare something that applied to everyone, or to you personally? Try reading it again. If you still think I called you a liar, please point out where I did so.
Why would I think you are excluding me? You’ve made a point, twice, of suggesting that generally people say they like darker chocolate than you do to impress someone. So, who do you mean if not people who are saying they like darker chocolate than you do? Or are you assuming all dopers are telling the truth about it, it’s just all those other people who are trying to impress you?
I’ll take dark first, and then white, over milk chocolate any day. Good dark chocolate is satisfying in a way the other varieties are not; white has a very nice, creamy flavour to me.
Milk chocolate is the worst of both worlds.
Why would you assume I’m including you, in statements that are clearly not universal, when you yourself know for sure that you are not included? I mean, why? It’s almost as though you wanted to be offended.
In truth, I have no idea how widespread it is, but I’ve seen it in the real world, far more commonly than I’ve seen people enjoying the really dark stuff. Maybe I’m extrapolating unreasonably from a small or biased sample. Maybe I’m just wrong. It seems you disagree with me either way, and that’s fine.
I’ll not derail this thread any further.
nm. thought I was witty, and wasn’t.
Best wishes,
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I like chocolate. It can be milk chocolate. It can be dark chocolate. If it’s excessively dark chocolate, I have to be in the right mood.
White chocolate isn’t chocolate, but if it’s well made, it’s not a bad candy. It’s just not what I’d reach for if I was craving chocolate.
One local (I think) candy maker puts white chocolate on top of a pile of really salty pretzel flakes. That’s really good, though I’ve never liked white chocolate in any other context.
Dude, your name implies that you eat everything and yet you occasionally mention not liking some food or another. I was teasing you about it. I expect to be teased (and sometimes am) when I critique movies (my name being the pseudonym formerly used by directors who were so embarrassed by a movie that they refused to be listed in the credits). I wasn’t being serious, man! Get out of here!
I genuinely enjoy eating it and I usually do so alone and without mentioning it to anyone. Now I did recently sample a both a high and mid-level cocoa content chocolate and was mildly surprised that I slightly preferred the less intense one, so it is possible that I’m choosing chocolates I actually enjoy less, but it’s not to impress anyone. I genuinely like extremely intense chocolate and I genuinely expect to like it better than equivalent milder ones. Since I’m generally a fan of intense flavors and know this about myself, it’s possible that I’m trying to impress myself, but not anyone else. But even if I enjoy challenging my palette with extreme tastes more than I sometimes enjoy the tastes in and of themselves, I don’t think that’s necessarily an invalid preference.
In any event, it would take a lot more than bragging about my chocolate preferences to make anyone think I was refined or sophisticated! 
Permit me to restate my point in a way that I hope makes more sense. As often happens here, argument has caused me to appear to occupy a position that appears more extreme than my actual opinion on the subject…
In the real world, I have encountered 80 and 90% chocolate (and I think 95% too, but I can’t recall the brand) a number of times. I too like to challenge my tastes with new things, so I’ve tried it each time it was offered. It was an interesting and intense experience, but not something I would describe as wholly pleasant in anything but the tiniest doses.
However, in many or most of those situations, there have been people who claim that this is the only kind of chocolate they truly enjoy, and yet it was apparent that they did not actually seem to be enjoying it.
These experiences left me with the enduring impression that these products are the significantly the province of food snobs.
Of course it’s entirely plausible that the majority of people eating the stuff are doing so quietly and without comment. Or that I have just been unlucky in my sampling of data, or indeed the particular selection of high-cocoa products I have been exposed to, but I don’t know what I don’t know - nevertheless, my opinion on this matter was (and will continue to be) shaped by real-world experiences.
If most of the cats you had ever seen were black, and in the absence of evidence to the contrary, it would not be unreasonable or dishonest to think that most cats were black. It might still be wrong, but it would be a valid point of view at that moment in time.
BTW, on the subject of eating things from under piles of wet leaves; I still do that quite a lot, but don’t write much here on it.
I don’t know nor care if White Chocolate is “really” chocolate – it still tastes better!
(Although I do like Milk and Dark Chocolate; too – I’m not that much of a freak! :eek:**)
Whew! My world is right-side-up again!
I generally don’t eat chocolate much at all, not because I don’t like it but because I don’t like it enough to justify the calories. I would much rather have a sandwich or something like that.
Having said that if I was having some chocolate it would be white, milk is quite nice as well but i’m not a fan of dark.