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Haven't read this whole thread. I'm Lazy. I say, switch to Cadbury. Yes, they're Canadian, I'm sad to say. But really, they honor the word Chocolate.
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Chocolove is excellent. Have you had the dark chocolate one with freeze-dried orange peel? It is one of my favorite chocolate bars ever.
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*is totally and utterly as dumb as people she was worried about and never ever will say anything again*
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quote:Trader Joe's has been carrying 80oz bars of Chocovic for something like $1.39 a bar.
You mean 80g, right? The Chocovic bars I get from Trader Joe's are 80g, which equals 2.28 oz.
They cost me a buck seventy nine though, so iven if your bars *aren't* huge, you're still getting a pretty good deal, relative to me anyway.
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(My mother brought back Hershey's from her latest trip to the US. It is really waxy-nasty. Even Australian supermarket homebrand chocolate is way better. Of course, you'll all have to come here and visit to verify that. )
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"Chocolove is excellent. Have you had the dark chocolate one with freeze-dried orange peel? It is one of my favorite chocolate bars ever."
Geez, Eljay, I'm drooling again!
I haven't had good chocolate in a couple of weeks now and I thought I was okay -- I'd keep it to a special treat every now and again -- but reading Hatrack keeps stoking this inner chocolate demon that needs to be fed!
I actually try to keep it to an occasional treat, too. But I still like talking about it.
And I went grocery shopping after posting that, and was gonna pick up some chocolove... but there was a free trade brand that I've never tried beforeand I remembered what Sara said about how bad the Chocolate industry is, so I bought the free trade stuff instead. I can't remember the brand, but it's extra dark with almonds.
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BtL - Thanks for correcting me. I thought that MSG was made from soy protein, but it turns out they normally use starch, corn sugar or molasses.
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I just dug up this really old thread and was surprised to see that it mentioned Valrhona chocolate and I hadn't noticed that. I didn't discover Valrhona until I lived in Taiwan and tried some at the amazingly ritzy department store.
It is the best. chocolate. in the world.
Honestly - I can't believe the things they can do.
For anyone in the Salt Lake area, I've discovered they sell Valrhona at Tony Caputo's. Actually, they sell everything virtuous, lovely and of good report at Tony Caputo's.
Also, new on the chocolate front is Amano - a brand produced right here in Orem, Utah. It's disturbingly expensive and disturbingly delicious. They use single source cocoa beans and they produce different chocolate bars with the exact same ingredients except for the source of the beans and the taste is totally different.
Thought I'd bring that up for the chocolate lovers among us.
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Chocolate is a doomed product, the places they are growing is facing steadily decreasing production and may stop entirely over the next 50 years.
quote:Originally posted by Blayne Bradley: Chocolate is a doomed product, the places they are growing is facing steadily decreasing production and may stop entirely over the next 50 years.
I think I'm going to start willfully disbelieving on the same level as the people who deny climate change.
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Blayne, that article is another reminder of why it's a good idea to buy Fair Trade chocolate. (Which both of the above are!).
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quote:Originally posted by mackillian: One of my friends gets a migraine the day after she has any MSG.
Does your friend get migraines from eating mushrooms, tomatoes, soy sauce, or Parmesan cheese? MSG is naturally occurring in many foods . . . it isn't just some crazy chemical additive like a lot of Americans seem to think it is.
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I wouldn't call soy sauce and Parmesan cheese foods, from the definition of "would be helpful if stranded on a desert island with a pallet of..."
No one used to talk about chocolate's antioxidants until the fair trade controversy arose. Corporate marketing slimeballs.
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quote:Originally posted by mackillian: One of my friends gets a migraine the day after she has any MSG.
Does your friend get migraines from eating mushrooms, tomatoes, soy sauce, or Parmesan cheese? MSG is naturally occurring in many foods . . . it isn't just some crazy chemical additive like a lot of Americans seem to think it is.
Just want to point out that Mackillian's comment is seven years old. She's not likely to remember it.
Sorry for the thread necromancy.
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I thought American chocolate was good until I went to Brazil for two years.
Now I can't eat American chocolate. I'll sometimes go down to the small Brazilian store here in Vegas and spend way too much money on imported chocolate, but not often. I don't like spending $30 on a box of chocolates that costs $4 in Brazil.
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Since this thread began as a discussion on Hershey, I feel compelled to point to the far superior central PA chocolate factory: Wilbur Chocolate (they really need to update their website... but don't judge them on that. Their milk chocolate is superb).
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