Don’t do it! Don’t eat good chocolate! If you like Hershey’s, just keep eating that!
I loved Hershey’s chocolate. I was born in Hershey, PA, for god’s sake! And then, one day, I got a German roommate who introduced me to Swiss and Belgian, and German chocolate. And now I can only be satisfied by Lindt and other such really expensive chocolate! I have seen the big city, I can’t go back to the farm!
SOB!
It stinks getting chocolate as a gift at work or from friends and not being able to eat it because it tastes like grainy, waxy, sugar. Just keep on the Hershey’s and you will never find yourself disappointed with the chocolate you eat.
I can’t remember who asked, but the whipped stuff in a 3 Musketeers bar is whipped chocolate, not nougat.
I’m also partial to the 100Grand bar, because I like crisped rice and caramel…those two combined…mmm…
Now, here’s MY suggestion:
A candy bar, like a 3-Museketeers, with that soft whipped center, but in addition, a malt-flavored cookie in the middle, like the middle of a Whoppers ball…
I think nougat is the stuff in Snickers.
Regarding good chocolate, I second the advice of somebody else who said to keep eating Hershey’s. After trying some from South America and Europe and the like, I can honestly say that eating Hershey’s reminds me of chewing on a birthday cake candle. It has the taste, sort of, but everything else is wrong. It’s an expensive habit! A bar of the good can cost from $3 to over $10. Oh, but it’s so worth it.
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And now I can only be satisfied by Lindt and other such really expensive chocolate!
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Lindt? Oh, Little Bird, there is still so much out there! I lived down the street from Zingerman’s (a great deli/awesome food store in Ann Arbor), with a couple of roommates who worked there. They’d bring back some chocolate bars periodically… That was chocolate. I don’t know if I can link to it (don’t want to seem like I’m pushing their wares), but if you go to www.zingermans.com and click on the Sweet Stuff section, you can see some of what they sell.
Sadly I have since moved to nowhere land. If I spot some really good chocolate sometime I’ll start a chocolate mailing thread. Then the fortunate ones can bestow their chocolate blessings upon those in … how shall we say, unenlightened? areas.
I have to agree. Take 5 is freaking heroin. I randomly tried one at the supermarket a while back and was in heaven. A few days later, I was at the liquor store with a friend, and they had a box of them there. I grabbed two and said, “You gotta try this, it’s incredible.” He’s not a big candy bar fan, so he was hesitant, but I got to the cashier with my two bars, the cashier immediately commented on the candy bars and confirmed that they were, indeed, the greatest candy bar ever. So my friend tries it and he absolutely loves it. He only eats half though, and saves the other half for his girlfriend who was waiting across the street. He almost didn’t make it and came very close to just eating the other half (and she was only 30 seconds away).
Count me in, too. I’m trying not to eat that stuff anymore, but I tried one a few weeks ago and was hooked. It’s the pretzels. I don’t think I’ve ever had pretzels in a candy bar before. Sure, there are chocolate-covered pretzels, but this is totally different. It’s like crack in the check-out aisle.
The dark chocolate kit-kats that they had out for a while are total genius…they transform a pretty-good-but-not-great candy bar to a sophisticated treat. Dark chocolate is the key people. How about this, keep the exact same candy bars we have now, but make everything in a dark chocolate verison.
I’ve never been into dark chocolate, but haven’t recent studies said eating it in moderation can actually be healthy, or at least not harmful? It seems like it’s always been neglected as far as everyday chocolate treats and snacks go.
You know what foreigners say about American food? Hershey’s Chocolate encapsulates every unpleasant stereotype of American food: bland, designed to be palatable to the lowest common denominator, basically symbolic of the kiddification of our culture that this is what people think of as chocolate. Hershey’s is disgusting. It hardly tastes like chocolate at all - more like soft, sweetened wax. If you come to the United States, bring your own food.
Godiva Chocolate is like the . . . mmm, what’s a good analogy? It’s the Lexus of chocolates. Meaning it’s pretty good, but it’s nothing like the best out there. And for what you get, it’s vastly overpriced. It’s not bad, but if you’re willing to put forth that kind of outlay, look around for something better. Godiva is just another one of those companies selling mass-produced versions of The Finer Things In Life, and with that mass production come concommitant losses in quality.
That’s what the newspapers have been saying. As usual, the media gloms onto any vaguely health-related news report, misinterprets it, and then reports it so heavily that it’s impossible to find out what the actual story was. Apparently there has been some actual research suggesting that dark chocolate may provide helpful antioxidants - but then, what plant-derived food doesn’t end up containing antioxidants when it’s studied? Dark chocolate is very high in fat and fairly sugary (though less sugary than milk chocolate, generally speaking) - so it’s as bad for you as anything fatty and sugary is.
