The Great British Chocolate Debate
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Topic: The Great British Chocolate Debate
Posted By: Green Shield Stamp
Subject: The Great British Chocolate Debate
Date Posted: March 26 2010 at 14:39
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Both are quality confectionary, but Cadbury's is the winner in my mind (and mouth!).
Galaxy is a tad sickly for my tastes. A few squares are very lovely indeed, but a whole bar is too rich for my delicate constitution.
How about you (chocolate preference I mean....not, if you are too rich for my delicate.........y'know) ------------- Haiku Writing a poem With seventeen syllables Is very diffic.... |
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Posted By: Finnforest
Date Posted: March 26 2010 at 14:44
Not sure about the poll, but cute new Av you have! ------------- ...that moment you realize you like "Mob Rules" better than "Heaven and Hell" |
Posted By: FusionKing
Date Posted: March 26 2010 at 14:45
Galaxy is the nearest we have to the Swiss stuff. British chocolate is too heavy and sickly sweet for me to be honest. 
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Posted By: seventhsojourn
Date Posted: March 26 2010 at 14:47
| Let's not forget Cadbury's creme eggs!! |
Posted By: Blacksword
Date Posted: March 27 2010 at 08:42
Lindt for me I'm afraid. I can happily slum it with British chocolate though...  Out of the two, vote Galaxy.------------- Ultimately bored by endless ecstasy! |
Posted By: Syzygy
Date Posted: March 30 2010 at 17:43
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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. ------------- 'Like so many of you I've got my doubts about how much to contribute to the already rich among us...' Robert Wyatt, Gloria Gloom |
Posted By: Atavachron
Date Posted: March 30 2010 at 18:21
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not a Cadbury fan (or of their Green&Black organic brand), nor a fan of our local chocolate either, Ghiradelli. Chocolate has become quite a thing lately, like wine with many different brands.. of the ones I've tasted I like Dagoba, Scharffen-Berger, Dean & DeLuca |
Posted By: Raff
Date Posted: March 30 2010 at 18:26
| 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. |
Posted By: Atavachron
Date Posted: March 30 2010 at 18:37
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^ wouldn't mind tasting some Monk Chocolate. My favorite cocoa comes from Holland, the real 'Dutched' cocoa, it has a different flavor and color which I prefer to our dark and light choc |
Posted By: A Person
Date Posted: March 30 2010 at 22:56
| I pretty much only like chocolate of the chocolate variety. |
Posted By: akamaisondufromage
Date Posted: March 31 2010 at 13:23
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I too prefer the very dark high cocoa content type. However, Galaxy and a cup of coffee is good for me. It would be interesting to see how it would do in a poll against the American variety which I have never tried but doesn't seem to have a very good reputation?
Yum yum ------------- Help me I'm falling! |
Posted By: FusionKing
Date Posted: April 07 2010 at 05:52
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.  ------------- "Man is nothing else but that which he makes of himself" - Sartre |
Posted By: Blacksword
Date Posted: April 07 2010 at 11:40
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Green & Blacks is pretty good to. Their dark chocolate is lovely, and their slightly spiced 'Maya Gold' Makes me drool just thinking about it! ------------- Ultimately bored by endless ecstasy! |
Posted By: Dean
Date Posted: April 07 2010 at 12:47
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.------------- What? |
Posted By: Blacksword
Date Posted: April 07 2010 at 13:26
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^^^ My taste for dark chocolate came with age. It's only in the last ten years or so I've come to appreciate dark chocolate. I would have eaten it before, but would have always chosen milk chocolate over dark.
------------- Ultimately bored by endless ecstasy! |
Posted By: FusionKing
Date Posted: April 11 2010 at 09:40
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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. ------------- "Man is nothing else but that which he makes of himself" - Sartre |
Posted By: Jon The Impaler
Date Posted: April 17 2010 at 11:51
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I'd say Galaxy , Cadbury is a very cheap and poor chocoloate when compred to the Swiss, Belgian varieties . Lindt is probably my favourite "quality " choc . I think Nestle , who have taken over Rowntree make some good one's , but you can't beat the quality Europeans ....... or Thornton's , which is probably the best British ( assuming it is British ) . ------------- Its expensive being poor |
Posted By: Dean
Date Posted: April 17 2010 at 12:19
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http://www.williescacao.com/ - 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. ------------- What? |
Posted By: PsYcHoTiC_MaDmAn
Date Posted: April 17 2010 at 20:07
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there should be a neither category, as both are horrendous. neither should be allowed to sully the name of chocolate. Lindt, Green&Blacks, surprisingly Lidl white & dark chocolate (their very good quality (albeat the white uses synthetic vanilla) "divine" wasnt bad either |
Posted By: johnobvious
Date Posted: April 17 2010 at 20:17
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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. ------------- Biggles was in rehab last Saturday |