The Great British Chocolate Debate

Not sure about the poll, but cute new Av you have!

Let's not forget Cadbury's creme eggs!!

Galaxy for me - it's just a little bit smoother. Mrs Syzygy is a bit of a chocolate snob, and I appreciate the quality stuff myself, but I'm perfectly happy with a bar of Galaxyand a decent cuppa. And maybe a slice of lardy cake, but that's for a different thread.

I don't eat a lot of chocolate (very little, in fact), but, when I do, I definitely prefer the dark variety - the more cocoa, the better. Anyway, even if it's not as famous as Swiss or Belgian chocolate, Italian chocolate is top notch as well - and I'm not talking about Perugina, which nowadays is part of the Nestlé group. The best chocolate in Italy comes from either Piemonte or Tuscany, but there is also some delicious chocolate produced in very unlikely places like Benedictine monasteries. 

I pretty much only like chocolate of the chocolate variety.

Anyone tried chocolate from a maker called H.G. Gross? They have a milk chocolate bar made with 35% cocoa solids from Papua New Guinea and a 65% Amazonian cocoa dark chocolate bar, plus many others. I highly reccomend this stuff for the chocolate snobs amongst you guys. You get it at quite a reasonable price from Lidl.

Odd thing is that I've loved dark chocolate since I was a kid and would rather have a bar of Bourneville plain over a CDM any day (Galaxy was always too sweet and sickly) - but over the past six months I've gone off dark chocolate completely, even the really nice stuff from Montezuma's or Hotel Chocolate (especially the one with chili in) that I would have wolfed down now tastes too bitter ... my current favourite is Green & Blacks Milk chocolate.

I love dark chocolate actually, and white chocolate. It's a shame that a lot of people refuse to see the true greatness of those flavours... Probably because we're conditioned a bit to like milk chocolate above all others as kids, so some folk will just stay with the same taste forever.

Willy's World Class Cacao (from the Channel 4 tv series "Willy's Wonky Chocolate Factory") is available from Waitrose and that's rather nice, if a lot expensive.

Edited by Dean - April 17 2010 at 12:57

Americans eat a lot of chocolate and most of it is crap.  Nestle just redid their Crunch bar to make it better tasting.  That should be pretty easy since it sucked to begin with.  Americans just do not appreciate good chocolate but in recent years there have been a lot of new premium items coming out, some of which are pretty good.

A couple of years ago M&M Mars came out with a chocolate bar with M&M imbedded in it.  I can't remember the name.  I tried one. Usually I like to let the chocolate melt in my mouth for a bit to get a better flavor.  The crap they used in this bar was so subpar, it would not even melt in your mouth!  They discontinued it in short order.

And along those lines,I heard that Mars originally made M&M to have just enough chocolate so that it would be hard to satisfy your craving by eating a small amount.  The idea was to have to eat a lot in order to get enough chocolate to be satisfied.  I don't know if it is true or not but might help explain why we are so freaking fat over here.