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Chocolate?

paulbysea

paulbysea

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As it is the season of chocolate, which do you prefer? Plain, Milk or white?

Any particular brands?

Do you do Easter eggs or just buy the chocolate you like?

I always choose plain and haven't bought or eaten an Easter Egg for longer than I care to remember.
 
Plain (or high cocoa) and milk.

Don't like white chocolate at all.

Prefer Cadbury to others, even expensive brands but do like the odd Mars product.
 
The Swiss bunny one for me. Lindt I think they might be. I forget.

messengerboy used to be a strict by the weight chocoholic but since he started working I've noticed he's relaxed his principles. No doubt he'd have some long and rational explanation were I to risk asking him about it.
 
I've become quite obsessive about chocolate recently. I buy most of my stuff from here:

https://cocoarunners.com/shop/by/ba...larity&paged=1&really_curr_tax=15-product_cat

and here:

https://chocolateseekers.com/product-category/chocolate-bars?orderby=menu_order

Expensive, but it's another world (pound for pound it's far better value than spending more on hi-fi).

I usually prefer dark (70%+) but this selection of milk chocolate is outstanding:

https://chocolateseekers.com/product/easter-milk-chocolate-selection

The Soma Old School milk bar is quite special.
 
I find them all acceptable. If I'm eating chocolate by itself, I prefer it dark, bitter and imported. But as an ingredient, it's all about balance with the other flavors. I couldn't finish a single white chocolate bar, but white chocolate covered strawberries are magnificent, as are white chocolate chip/macadamia nut cookies. Milk chocolate can be cloying, but it can also be a familiar reminder of childhood and pleasant times.
 
Watched the Hotel Chocolat infomercial on C4. They looked like ghastly people making ghastly chocolate. Mind you can’t be nearly as awful as Thorntons.
 
I like Lindt 86% cocoa. A pity it’s become too expensive for regulars. Crudbury Old Gold 70%-ish is a reasonable substitute & still cheap here.

I’ve developed a liking for milk chocolate too over the last while. Not sure if you can get it in Blighty but Whittaker’s is the brand to go for here. The milk almond rules! A regular milk bar + a Red Bull or two makes a fine hangover relief.

White chocolate hits a spot once in a blue moon. Again, Whittaker’s is where it’s at.

I bought a milk Toblerone a while back because it was on a remarkable special & I hadn’t had it in 30 years. It’s as disgusting now as it was then!

Chocolate diabetes will be my downfall.
 
Most of the supermarkets offer a range of high cocoa chocolates and the ones that I have tasted are excellent.

I do not buy chocolate beyond once in a blue moon, but the darker and more bitter, the better, and fruit and/or nuts are very welcome.
 
I buy Montezuma 100% chocolate bars from Amazon. I heat one bar up in a saucepan to melt it, add a tablespoon of stevia granular sugar and finally pour in some cold milk. This 'shocks' the chocolate and makes it go really thick but not hard. I roll this thick chocolate into balls and stick them in the fridge. They form sugar free delicious truffles. I've added other things to the mix including chopped peanuts, ground coconut or raisins.
 
Royce chocolate, if you can find it. Japanese, with very high cocoa content. Keep it chilled. Absolutely sublime. A couple of squares with a good coffee is sufficient.
 
Had a Creme Egg today. I think they’ve got smaller, and I know they’ve changed the recipe, but I still like them.

Chocolat Charbonnel is pretty good, especially since we got a milk frother.
 
droodzilla said:
I've become quite obsessive about chocolate recently. I buy most of my stuff from here:

https://cocoarunners.com/shop/by/ba...larity&paged=1&really_curr_tax=15-product_cat

and here:

https://chocolateseekers.com/product-category/chocolate-bars?orderby=menu_order

Expensive, but it's another world (pound for pound it's far better value than spending more on hi-fi).

I usually prefer dark (70%+) but this selection of milk chocolate is outstanding:

https://chocolateseekers.com/product/easter-milk-chocolate-selection

The Soma Old School milk bar is quite special.
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Whoa, I’m liking this post. All links bookmarked, thanks.
 
Haven't had an egg for donkeys years!

But as far as chocolate goes it's milk for preference, but dark rather than white.

Don't really mind which make, but I do particularly like Galaxy.

May be psychological, but I've went off Cadburys since they were taken over.

Andy
 
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