# Who has the world's best chocolate??? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [December 6, 1999, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-has-the-worlds-best-chocolate/11798 "1999-12-06T00:05:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Coldfire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a587f6/32.png) [@Coldfire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coldfire)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 1999, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-has-the-worlds-best-chocolate/11798/21 "1999-12-06T16:21:00Z")
Milka from Switzerland (or Austria, dunno) Van Houten from Holland ## Cadburry’s from England Coldfire * * * “You know how complex women are” - Neil Peart, Rush (1993) ---
**Author:** ![Coldfire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a587f6/32.png) [@Coldfire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coldfire)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 1999, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-has-the-worlds-best-chocolate/11798/22 "1999-12-06T16:23:00Z")
OOOOOOOOOOHHH !!! Forgot the Australian chocolates, the ones from the chain that also sells the best ice cream: Passion Fruit Ice Cream !!! ## Aaaaaahhhh… Also, Belgian chocolate from a specialist store as described above is SUPERB, beats any brand chocolate. Is just figured we were talking off-the-rack bars here. Coldfire * * * “You know how complex women are” - Neil Peart, Rush (1993) ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 1999, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-has-the-worlds-best-chocolate/11798/23 "1999-12-06T16:43:00Z")
Lindt. > [@](#): > > “White chocolate” is NOT chocolate and has no place in a civilized society. It is an affront to nature, an abomination that should not be inflicted upon the worst among us. Nature abhors white chocolate. It is the culinary equivalent to the song “Footloose” - totally without merit. ## Generally, I agree, but Lindt white chocolate is heavenly. It’s not chocolate, but it’s incredibly creamy and sweet. I think that’s because it’s made solely from cocoa butter. “East is east and west is west and if you take cranberries and stew them like applesauce they taste much more like prunes than rhubarb does.” – Marx Read “Sundials” in the new issue of Aboriginal Science Fiction. [www.sff.net/people/rothman](http://www.sff.net/people/rothman) ---
**Author:** ![Satan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Satan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Satan)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 1999, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-has-the-worlds-best-chocolate/11798/24 "1999-12-06T17:43:00Z")
Just gimme an all-american Hershey bar (no almonds, thanks) and I’m doing just fine, thanks… Oh, and I happen to like white chocolate. The sublime pseudo-chocolate taste is divine. * * * Yer pal, Satan ---
**Author:** ![rubes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b782af/32.png) [@rubes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rubes)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 1999, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-has-the-worlds-best-chocolate/11798/25 "1999-12-06T17:49:00Z")
i’m w/Satan here, Hershey’s or Mars makes my favorite chocolate. My Nani (grandmother) makes excellent fudge, but I’m not certain if that counts… ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/original/2X/e/e489c3b7d8fce19c4b355dd4fc3f88cc39c34b87.png) [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 1999, 6:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-has-the-worlds-best-chocolate/11798/26 "1999-12-07T06:12:00Z")
> [@](#): > > As a loyal Californian, I have to say Girradelli. **Ghirardelli** (“Say Gear-Are-Deli”) [http://www.ghirardelli.com/](http://www.ghirardelli.com/) Of course it’s damned good, but Joseph Schmidt ([http://home.digitalcity.com/sanfrancisco/untourist/main.dci?page=truffles](http://home.digitalcity.com/sanfrancisco/untourist/main.dci?page=truffles)) and Alfred Schilling ([http://home.digitalcity.com/sanfrancisco/dining/venue.dci?vid=16782](http://home.digitalcity.com/sanfrancisco/dining/venue.dci?vid=16782)) get my vote for the best local handcrafted chocolates. YUMMM! FYI: bet you’d all be stunned to learn that Ghirardelli’s big chocolate factory is NOT located in San Francisco. They’ve got a tiny tourist kitchen at Ghirardelli Square, but the bulk of their product is made in the East Bay (San Leandro), just down the street from my old address. Nothing like waking up in the morning with the entire town smelling like baking cocoa… (sigh) * * * **StoryTyler** _The fun starts here!_ ---
**Author:** ![Doctor\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doctor_jackson/32/32_2.png) [@Doctor\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doctor_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 1999, 6:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-has-the-worlds-best-chocolate/11798/27 "1999-12-07T06:26:00Z")
Count me as the third vote for Ghirardelli. There is nothing finer than an ice cream sundae with Ghirardelli chocolate sauce. Heaven. * * * The overwhelming majority of people have more than the average (mean) number of legs. – E. Grebenik ---
**Author:** ![ZenBeam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/3ab097/32.png) [@ZenBeam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZenBeam)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 1999, 6:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-has-the-worlds-best-chocolate/11798/28 "1999-12-07T06:30:00Z")
My favorite “chocolate” has to be carob! It’s a fake chocolate, kind of gritty and burnt tasting. Mmmm… OK, I’m kidding :). I’m not impressed with Ghirardelli. Sure, it’s more expensive than Hersheys, but it doesn’t really have anything else going for it. The best I remember was Fannee Farmers, but that was probably 20 years ago, when I was an inexperienced kid. ## I’m surprised no one has mentioned Mackinac Island fudge yet. _It is too clear, and so it is hard to see._ ---
**Author:** ![Jebediah](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ac91a4/32.png) [@Jebediah](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jebediah)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 1999, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-has-the-worlds-best-chocolate/11798/29 "1999-12-06T19:00:00Z")
Ya, Hershes is good chocolate, if you like your chocolate with a slight hint of kerosene. Lindt seems to be the best stuff I can buy at the grocery store though I would be surprised if you couldn’t do better someplace more gourmet. About white chocolate: If I’m not mistaken, it is cocoa butter mixed with powdered milk. So you can claim that it is chocolate with the good part taken out, but it is still chocolate. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/original/2X/e/e489c3b7d8fce19c4b355dd4fc3f88cc39c34b87.png) [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 1999, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-has-the-worlds-best-chocolate/11798/30 "1999-12-06T19:16:00Z")
> [@](#): > > About white chocolate: If I’m not mistaken, it is cocoa butter mixed with powdered milk. So you can claim that it is chocolate with the good part taken out, but it is still chocolate. Semantics, technicalities… It’s nothing even _remotely_ like chocolate. In fact, it’s closer to white (sweet) wax than anything else. GAG. * * * **StoryTyler** _I am too in shape! :::muttering::: Round is a shape._ ---
**Author:** ![bantmof](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/96bed5/32.png) [@bantmof](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bantmof)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 1999, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-has-the-worlds-best-chocolate/11798/31 "1999-12-06T19:22:00Z")
Satan says, > [@](#): > > Oh, and I happen to like white chocolate. Well, coming from the dark lord himself that doesn’t surprise me. It only figures that there would be white chocolate in hell! Re: Ghirardelli, I’ve also been underwhelmed. I’ll eat it - it’s not bad or anything - but the best? I dunno about that. ## ZenBeam: The Mackinac island fudge is awfully good. I ate way too much of that when I was there. Yummy. peas on earth ---
**Author:** ![Falcon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/49beb7/32.png) [@Falcon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Falcon)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 1999, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-has-the-worlds-best-chocolate/11798/32 "1999-12-06T19:26:00Z")
There’s white chocolate in hell? Yet ANOTHER reason I’m glad I’m headed there! (Yes, I love white chocolate…happiest Easter I ever had was getting a big ol’ white chocolate bunny.) And my favorite right now…Ghirardelli. Mainly because my parents went to Switzerland for two weeks and didn’t bring back any chocolate…damn them. * * * “Men are from Earth, women are from Earth. Deal with it.” - George Carlin ---
**Author:** ![Arnold\_Winkelried](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Arnold\_Winkelried](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arnold_Winkelried)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 1999, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-has-the-worlds-best-chocolate/11798/33 "1999-12-06T21:06:00Z")
To echo what other people have said: The [Lindt Lindor](http://www.lindt.com/) chocolate is the best. For those of you who are satisfied with Hershey’s (looking pointedly in **Satan** ’s direction), I pity you. Your palate has been debased by inferior chocolates in childhood. * * * La franchise ne consiste pas à dire tout ce que l’on pense, mais à penser tout ce que l’on dit. H. de Livry ---
**Author:** ![Purple\_Toenails](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/779978/32.png) [@Purple\_Toenails](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Purple_Toenails)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 1999, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-has-the-worlds-best-chocolate/11798/34 "1999-12-06T21:42:00Z")
Well you’re all there or there abouts,but it has to be(in my humble opinion!),Cadbury’s Bournville! Mmmmmmm…now there is a chocolate worthy of a mention! * * * Please forgive me i’m English! ---
**Author:** ![OpalCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8edcca/32.png) [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 1999, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-has-the-worlds-best-chocolate/11798/35 "1999-12-06T21:43:00Z")
I have to agree that white chocolate is like dried semen mixed with wax. Nasty stuff. * * * – Teeming Millions: [http://fathom.org/teemingmillions](http://fathom.org/teemingmillions) “Meat flaps, yellow!” - DrainBead, naked co-ed Twister chat O p a l C a t [www.opalcat.com](http://www.opalcat.com) ---
**Author:** ![Neidhart](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Neidhart](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Neidhart)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 1999, 12:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-has-the-worlds-best-chocolate/11798/36 "1999-12-07T12:06:00Z")
Tobler Extra Bittersweet. So powerful it takes a week to finish a standard-size bar. And I don’t see the point of white chocolate either. The one time I tried some, it didn’t taste like **anything**. If I’m going to eat something flavorless at least it should be non-fat 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 1999, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-has-the-worlds-best-chocolate/11798/37 "1999-12-07T15:47:00Z")
Hershey’s chocolate was supposedly formulated to have a slightly “sour” taste, which has never caught on outside of the U.S. There’s an interesting-sounding new book out called THE EMPERORS OF CHOCOLATE, about the rivalry between the Hershey and Mars companies. I swiped the above fact from the review in the NY TIMES BOOK REVIEW. I’m not much of a chocolate buff, so I’ll duck out without stating an opinion. * * * Uke ---
**Author:** ![PurpleCrackwhore](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/9fc348/32.png) [@PurpleCrackwhore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PurpleCrackwhore)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 1999, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-has-the-worlds-best-chocolate/11798/38 "1999-12-07T17:57:00Z")
Mmm they all sound nummy!! Like I said in my first post, if any of you care to send me some to sway my opinion… I will be more than happy to try it out =) Ohhh and Toenails… you can bring yours to me personally Sweetness, I am sure I could find a creative way to melt your chocolate to a more palatable temptation. * * * “Only when he no longer knows what he is doing, does the painter do good things.” --Edgar Degas ---
**Author:** ![Purple\_Toenails](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/779978/32.png) [@Purple\_Toenails](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Purple_Toenails)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 1999, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-has-the-worlds-best-chocolate/11798/39 "1999-12-07T19:51:00Z")
Well, i’ve thought long and hard on this subject,no doubt that comment alone will draw a comment! Mmmmm,chocolate…provide me with a naked female body(preferably alive),and there’s not a chocolate in the world which wouldn’t taste wonderful when eaten ever so slowly from it. * * * Please forgive me i’m English! ---
**Author:** ![putrid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e5b9ba/32.png) [@putrid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/putrid)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 1999, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-has-the-worlds-best-chocolate/11798/40 "1999-12-07T21:38:00Z")
White chocolate and Hershey’s and the fancier, schmanzier types you’ve mentioned are all **exactly** the same. They are all manufactured by the same multinational corporation as part of a great global conspiracy. It’s sad to see that most of you have been so willingly suckered by Madison Avenue. 🙂 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-has-the-worlds-best-chocolate/11798.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-has-the-worlds-best-chocolate/11798.md?page=3)