Best (factory produced) chocolate?

[warpus]

IIRC the minimum requirement in the UK for a food to be legally described as chocolate is 20% cocoa solids. In the US it's 10%. So yeah, chocolate (at least the cheap stuff) tends to be much better in the UK. Oddly enough, there's been a bit of a controversy in the last few days over Cadbury's in the US - Hersheys, whio hold the rights to the name in America, have gotten the government to ban people from imporing the "English" version of it into the country. The reason people want to import it is the fact that the Hersheys' "American" version has such low cocoa content that even fans of Cadburys think it tastes like crap.

Yeah, I heard about that.

I think if I lived in Europe I would eat a lot more chocolate. At least you can get Ritter Sport here - almost in every 2nd store you go to. So that's kind of awesome - if I want good chocolate, I can actually get it. And it's not really that expensive either.

 

[bhavv]

What's the cocoa solids in Ritter sport?

 

[sophie]

Don't much like Toblerone. I love Ghirardelli though /Bay Area represent represent/.

 

[Mechanicalsalvation]

Forget about corporation made chocolade - its a mud made into tasting like chocolate. Get some real stuff in bio-quality.

 

[classical_hero]

Well Cadbury's in Australia could be different from the British version I know we make in Tasmania.

 

[Lillefix]

in the rest of europe the minimum amount of cocoa is 25% btw for milk chocolate.

 

[BvBPL]

Ghirardelli is my personal fav, both for eating and baking.

A regular, plain old Hershey bar is also nice.

 

[Mechanicalsalvation]

Well Cadbury's in Australia could be different from the British version I know we make in Tasmania.

Could be, last time I had Harsheys in Australia, my first thought was that someone just vomit in my mouth. Not sure what went wrong there...

 

[Farm Boy]

Chocolate? Tolerable I suppose. More worthy of a Moon Pie than an import purchase.

Spoiler :

Link to video.

 

[Lillefix]

I've tried Hershey's in America twice. I didn't learn the first time. But I did learn the second time.

 

[warpus]

What's the cocoa solids in Ritter sport?

As far as I know it's made in Europe, so 20-25% ish at least? But that is a guess.

 

[sophie]

Hershey's is disgusting. Only buy it for S'mores (because: tradition) and even then I use like 2 pieces of it and the rest of the bar sits in the cupboard for years until I throw it out or freeze it and and force myself to eat it.

I learned the last time I was in Italy that KitKats are far superior in Europe because they don't use crappy inedible Hershey's milk chocolate.

 

[bhavv]

Today I've eaten a pack of 5 Milky Way crispy rolls ... They are good.

Might seem like a lot, but it was only 30% of my daily Kcal intake (3% per finger x 10 fingers).

 

[Valka D'Ur]

I haven't had Toblerone in a long time, but I liked it.

Cadbury's as it is now bears no resemblance to the stuff I had as a child. It's okay for a quick fix, but not what I'd choose if I had a list of better options.

 

[Godwynn]

 

[Kyriakos]

White cholocate isn't real cholocate

 

[Grisu]

Am I the only person who hates toblerone?

I don't hate it but it's definately not my favorite, though it's ridiculously expensive

This one pretty much is:

White cholocate isn't real cholocate

Milka isn't white chocolate...but it isn't real chocolate either

 

[jackelgull]

What about Lindor chocolate? Expensive, but delicious.

 

[Terxpahseyton]

Hershey's tastes like Communism.

Spoiler :

I already once told this , but it is so ironic that I have to do it again: When I brought my parents some Hershey's from America they said it tasted like the stuff they had in Communist East Germany.

Interesting stuff about the cocoa-requirements.

I like all chocolate (except Hershey's). I once had something undefinable from Brazil. Was fantastic. I have a special place in my stomach for coffee-flavored chocolate. But I couldn't say what I like the most. Too much good to choose from.
I don't like dark chocolate, unless if it is somehow really well made. I eat dark chocolate for health, though. The really strong stuff, with 70% or more cocoa. That stuff can bring a tear to your eye.
Oh and what I absolutely hate is chocolate with alcohol. That is just perverse from my POV. Ruining a perfectly piece of chocolate like that... Worse than raisins. Though if it is not the pure drink but rather a subtle flavor it can be nice I guess. What I means is biting into some sweet sweet chocolate and suddenly tasting the fluid bitterness of vine or some liquor or whatever, dispersing in your mouth as liquids do and annihilating all the sweet sweetness you just were allowed to enjoy. That is wrong.

 

[bhavv]

If you like coffee chocolate you have to try Thornton's cappuccino truffles. They are the best.