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Has anyone else seen the new version of Hershey's candies? They're basically chocolate Pringles. They've got Reese's, regular Hershey's chocolate, York Peppermint, and Almond Joy flavors. I found them at Walmart today. I'm still trying to find a link. If you see them, give them a try. They're bizarre, but not too bad.
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No. They're literally just like Pringles. The outer box is cardboard, and inside are three sealed cups that look like the Pringles snack pack things like you'd put in a lunch, and inside each of those is, like, six of these Pringle-shaped, Hershey candy-flavored chocolate happies. I tried the Reese's ones, and they taste like Reese's Pieces. They're mind-boggling.
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I've seen those! And no, they're really like little scoops of chocolate, they're shaped like Pringles. I can't remember what they're called. Some variation on Scoops, I believe...
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Duh, I have some with me. They're called Swoops. And thank you, Ryuko, for backing me up. I was beginning to think I had some freak isolated Walmart experience.
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I saw them at Wal-mart, too, so unless it's a crazy Wal-mart induced hallucination... (which it very well could be. Wal-mart's a scary place sometimes...)
I don't see the logic, though. Wouldn't they just melt to each other?
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YES! I saw those, shopping with my former boss and his wife-they made us laugh! I bought some almond joy ones, and they're good!
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I'm not a big chocolate eater, but I bought a snickers bar at the podiatrist yesterday. It was a fundraiser for his neice's baskeball team. Anyway, I got a cell phone call from my brother at the time and I don't know what I did with that snickers bar. Maybe I left it in the doctors office. I've looked in my car. But I KNOW I didn't eat it!
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I know what you mean, Annie. After indulging in wonderful Belgian and Swiss chocolate for two years, I literally could not eat Hershey's for a few months.
Chocolate, cheese, and yoghurt: three things Americans are decidedly NOT good at.
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Right now I'm completely addicted to the chocolate bars made by Chocovic. I've never had dark chocolate this good before. Never. Nothing even comes close. They've got three different varieties, each made from a different type of cocoa beans. My favorite is the Ocumare, which is made from criollo cocoa beans.
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Some Hershey varieties are wonderful. You just have to know which ones to get. And they cost a lot less than the Belgian varieties.
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When Hershey's was starting his chocolate empire, he wanted a flaover distinctly American. So he made his chocolate with soured milk.
With enough advertising, it caught on over the non-mass-produced local chocolates and foreign imports here in America.
The result is American Chocolate has a distinct taste, in the same way that Hagis or Whale Blubber has a distinct taste. If you are used to it, you like it. If not, you gag.
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What Hershey varieties would you recommend Bob? The only Hershey's chocolate I've had that was worth eating would the their Symphony line, but it only seems to be available in milk chocolate varieties, and I prefer dark.
Is Dove an American company? Both their dark and milk chocolate are pretty good. If I can't get my chocolate-snob chocolate (see my above post), I usually go with Dove.
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What I don't like about regular Hershey chocolate is the granularity of it. You can almost feel the individual grains of sugar in it. Oh, and it's pretty waxy. I prefer smoother chocolate.
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I got Toblerone and Lindt chocolate in my stocking! Yummm... Now, if only I had gotten some Cote d'Or!
Good chocolate makers don't have to resort to gimmicky shapes and other presentations to sell their goods!
Nestle may be Swiss but its offerings are regionalized. I don't buy overpriced Godiva.
Dove is made by Mars (the M&Ms company) and is good for American chocolate. Hershey's has a more premium line (Signature?) that is not bad, either.
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One of my roommates is from Hershey, Pennsylvania, and she brings us chocolate that is not even 24 hours old. It's 100% better than the Hersheys we buy in the stores, but it's still no European chocolate. I love Sees chocolate as far as American chocolate goes.
I have seen those Swoops actually. I was in Blockbuster with my mom, and she saw them. She thought they were so funny that she couldn't resist buying them for my dad's stocking. A couple days later, of course, we saw them in Target or somewhere almost two dollars cheaper. My mom was mad. She had thought they were a novelty item.
*Goes off to look for the Sees she got in her stocking*
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Dark Hershey Kisses are pretty good, actually.
And cheap.
Hershey's powedered cocoa is very useful in recipes and usually comes out tasting great.
I think I've had a dark Signature piece, but I can't be sure. Are those the ones that are shaped like small humps wrapped in gold foil?
Godiva's open shells are fantastic, by the way, even if overpriced. Worth it!!!
There's a western candy maker called See's.
And there's a place in Laguna Beach (or is it one town South) that my friend too me to. It's at the harbor. THE BEST EVER!!!
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A good Dutch cocoa powder makes for even better end results than Hershey's. However, due to price I most often use Hershey's in recipes.
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My mom introduced us to some great chocolates over Christmas. Their pecan puddles and peanut butter chocolates are great! Koze's candy
Ghiradelli is wonderful and I also like the Symphony line of Hershey's, but it is less and less available. Really, I love chocolate of all sorts, *grin* but it is amazing the different textures and tastes.
Dan, I hadn't heard of the soured milk. I do know that they didn't have the exact techniques down and so American chocolate is more "burnt" than european chocolate.
Duch cocoa is wonderful for recipies, I agree! Its amazing how much more rich the end product is.
*drools with all the talk of chocolate*
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My son loves white chocolate (which really isn't chocolate) -- so does anyone have any recommendations for exotic options in white chocolate? I can't stand it myself, but would like to buy some "better" options of it for him..
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I've had those nuggets. They're better than regular Hershey's chocolate, but still not all that great. Now give me a bag of Dove Promises and I'm happy (and about 10 pounds heavier, by the time I've polished it off).
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It has cocoa butter and some other stuff from cocoa beans, plus vanilla and sugar; but no cocoa powder or chocolate liqueur.
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Has anyone ever tried Guittard's chocolate? It's mainly sold to candymakers, so it isn't all that easy to come by. It's made in CA, and I buy it in 10 lb. bars to make my own chocolates. They come out a lot better than See's. Yum. I get the Dutch Milk and French Vanilla dark, and both are fantastic.
Otherwise, I go to Cost Plus and buy Milka and Ritter and so on. Mmmmm... (Can I just say how much I love the Ritter Sport slogan? "Quadratisch. Practisch. Gut." Cracks me up every time, it does.)
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I love Ghiradelli. Their chocolate chips are esquistite for use in my milkshakes. I also love their cocoa powder but it's 5 whole dollars! And to make matters worse, I can't go back to the cheap cocoa powder now. It just isn't the same. Dove chocolate is very nice... but Ghiradelli has that fine complex flavour I love. Of course I also like Reeses a lot but milk chocolate is too sweet and is like popular music.
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BTW, While the parent contry for Nestle' is in Switzerland, Nestle' Chocolate is wholly American. Nestle' doesn't even market chocolate in Europe (at least if they do, I've never seen it). Besides, Americans aren't the only ones to make bad chocolate -- Cadbury is awful stuff as well.
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I've often wondered how difficult it would be to make chocolate from the raw or roasted beans. I didn't know you could buy them in health food stores. Hmmm... I may have to try that.
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I forgot about Lindt. I did not know cadbury made dark chocolae. I ate a bit during L of the R (As one must smuggle food into theatres) It's not so bad stuff... not the best, not the worse.
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My mom was mad. She had thought they were a novelty item.
