Do we all agree that dark chocolate is a meme and that milk chocolate is superior because it actually tastes good?
No, grow up
Are 12 or a fat, middle aged housewife?
Good chocolate > Shitty Chocolate
Doesn't matter how dark or milky a chocolate is, if it' shit quality chocolate, it's shit, period
A lot of people with poor understanding of chocolate have incorrect ideas about whether dark is better than milk, based on their limited exposure to high quality chocolate
Protip: if your idea of good chocolate is lindt, your opinions are automatically invalid
>>7752821
/thread
Absolutely not.
>>7752836
Name some good chocolate brands that are available in America so I can expand my chocolatey horizon.
>>7752836
hersheys is the best chocolate.
/thread.
>>7752846
Valhrona, Callebaut, and Guittard are all pretty dependable, reasonably priced, and widespread
Just start with those and then you can try fancier stuff later
Remember that a major "boutique" brand used remelted Valhrona for years and no one caught on
I have zero control when it comes to candy so I buy dark chocolate because I can only eat like three pieces max before it's just too fucking disgusting.
>>7752846
my go to
>>7752804
Milk Chocolate leaves your breath smelly though. Probably from all the cane sugar added
>gourmet chocolate
you are being scammed, a $200 chocolate bar only costs slightly more to make than a vomit inducing hershey
>>7752836
What's wrong with lindt? It rates a solid above average in my book.
>>7752969
>flavors of acidic dirt and rusty nails
No thanks
>>7752804
Milk "chocolate" is really chocolate-flavoured confection, not real chocolate.
>>7752988
You don't have to buy a 200 dollar chocolate bar
who /rittersport/ here?
>>7752860
>Valhrona
Its shit, just plain shit.
Do we all agree that American chocolate is a meme and that Euopean chocolate is superior because it actually tastes good?
>>7752945
You're probably trying to chew it rather than letting it melt in your mouth and savoring the chocolatey goodness.
>>7752969
The chili is fucking disgusting.
>>7752804
Other way around. Dark choco is god tier. Milk choco need not apply.
>>7752804
Can we all agree that (thing I don't like) is a meme?
great thread OP
I suppose people that like things that you don't are also only pretending in order to look cool or some other literally autistic rationalisation like that?
>>7752945
why bother buying and eating sweets you disgust?
While I'm sure they're available /somewhere/ in Ameriland, I'd like to know if triple layer chocolate is common. It's my favourite.
Thin layer of dark. Thin layer of milk. Thin layer of white.
So. Fucking. Good.
So, then. Is triple layer chocolate common in the US? Like... could I walk into most American supermarkets and pick up a mass-manufactured bar of triple layer or no?
>>7752821
Nice answer!!!. (My sides...)
>>7753458
I've never seen it here
>>7753013
>rittersport
my nigga
>>7753458
Had a mix of dark and milk but nothing with all three.
>>7753019
Only when you admit that the rest of euro cuisine sucks
who /whittakers/ here?
>>7753708
Never seen those in stores, but if I did, would buy.
>>7753698
But the cut pieces are smaller.
The search continues for the secret of infinite chocolate.
>>7753013
Mein neger.
Cornflakes is based
>>7752993
Everybody has heard of it and it's easy to find in any supermarket.
Milk chocolate in itself is alright.
Most milk chocolates are disgustingly sugary tough.
While it's harder to fuck up dark chocolate, there are different qualities.
The best milk chocolate is lower in cocoa butter so that it isn't a melting mess and only slightly higher in sugar than ~60% dark chocolate.
Chocolate with hazelnut fillings > *
>>7753708
fuck yeah thank you new zealand life
>>7754159
Those things are almost too pretty to eat.
Ghiradelli isn't really meant for snacking but its pretty fucking good semi-sweet. I use it for all my baking because its price to flavor ratio is pretty high and you can find it everywhere.
Fuck you chocolate hipsters and your shitty imported French garbage thats overpriced to hell.
>>7754241
>Fuck you chocolate hipsters and your shitty imported French garbage thats overpriced to hell.
What if we're not from a third world shithole though?
>>7754243
Then you are paying normal prices for mediocre chocolate. The French aren't even great at chocolate they are just autistic as fuck and people mistake it for skill.
>>7754261
Lmao@you while eating menier for dessert and poulain for snacks
>>7752804
I think its the other way around
>>7754241
I used to think Ghirardelli was good, back when I thought Toberlone was fancy
What a naive child you are
>>7753708
Your friend in the fridge.
>>7753013
love it.
i put the fruit-based ones in the fridge when its hot.
Quadratisch,Praktisch,Gut.
I can agree with you, OP.
Then again, according to this thread, I've never had good chocolate.
>Romanian friend regularly gets chocolate sent to him by his family
>usually Belgian or Romanian chocolate
>gives me some whenever I go over to his place
>best chocolate I've ever had in my life
>he says it's relatively cheap to buy over there, but mailing it is the real pain
>tfw no one to buy me European chocolate
It hurts to live, fampai. I can't go back to eating filthy American shit. Hershey's makes my throat feel coarse and American Dairy Milk is a meme.
>>7752804
couverture chocolate > all other
>>7752852
>>7754446
I've never had hershey's (I'm french) is it that bad?
My standart for bad chocolate is milka (too sweet) how does it compares?
>>7754452
Hershey's has a key chemical that gives vomit its distinctive flavor added, this isn't a joke, I am actually being serious
It became traditional back in the days when American mass manufacturing tech had surpassed American supply chain tech, so rotten milk was an expected component of chocolate bars. For many flyover scum, rotten milk garbage chocolate was the first and best chocolate they had ever had. Needless to say, if this were to have been changed, mass armed revolt would have ensued. So it stayed that way, forever. Because being a regular normal guy and being grateful for the garbage fed to you by a megacorp is the Real American Way, and seeking out improvements is treacherous Aaron Burr Osama Bin Laden pure evil.
You can look this up on your own if you don't believe me. I don't expect you to.
>>7754452
cadbury > milka > dogshit > Hershey
>>7754456
I did look it up because that sounded impossible but it seems you're right.
I'm speechless.
>>7754187
almost
Marabou chocolate is best chocolate.
>>7752804
You are probably just eating dark chocolate wrong
Buy some good, bit more expensive stuff
Take a block, put in your mouth and just let it melt instead of chewing on the chocolate like a filthy plebeian
I like both but pretty much every time people have told me they don't like dark chocolate is because they don't fucking know how to properly enjoy it
>>7754147
Ah, the good old "if it's famous, it's shit" reasoning
The mantra of 4chan.
>>7754494
seen it a thousand times
/v/ is particularly bad
>>7752852
>>7754420
can't he just mail it with like $5 of dry ice?
>>7753013
best brand, gute Wahl
>>7754506
>>7754499
Yeah, he could but I feel awkward asking a friend for candy that his family sends him.
>>7754512
I'm glad you admit it.
You must feel really small having lost so hard.
>Americans trying to talk about being cultured
>Americans trying to pretend they understand chocolate
>Americans pretending they know what good chocolate is
>Americans going to home-chocolatier basement conventions to try out the latest craft-chocolate made by nu-males in the local basement micro-chocolateries.
>>7754545
>Americans going to home-chocolatier basement conventions to try out the latest craft-chocolate made by nu-males in the local basement micro-chocolateries.
Goddamn, this isn't real is it? Surely no one is pretentious enough to go to a craft-chocolate convention.
>>7753698
This isn't even a good illusion, you can clearly see the leftmost piece magically get longer as it slides upwards.
>>7754452
It's probably not as bad as the memes say, but I'm Murrican so it's familiar to me. I doubt you'd enjoy it because their milk chocolate is very sweet, and yes, it does have a sour taste unlike any other chocolate I know. Probably an acquired taste.
>>7754543
>LINDT IS BAD
>why
>IT'S POPULAR
Just because two people think a certain type of chocolate tastes similar doesn't mean they're the same person.
>>7754388
It's on par with any mass produced European chocolate
>>7752821
I like dark chocolate but what does chocolate preference have to do with age? Maybe YOU need to grow up....
>>7755222
I imagine it's the fact that youngsters are often preoccupied with the changes in their palates as they pertain to perception of bitter flavors
You see this with beer and coffee threads too, a child in his late teens or early 20s who can't stfu about how he totally never enjoys sweet flavors now that he's a real grown-up
>>7755222
It has more to do with the fact that OP calls something he doesn't like "a meme" and something he does like "actually tastes good". Pretty childish.
i like to drink whiskey and eat dark chocolate and chew unflavored tobacco. the reason is, my personality is lackluster and i have no invested interest, hobbies, or refined skills, so i use consumables as an augmentation to my persona in order that i not be a completely hollow, uninteresting husk. this allows for me to maintain a desultory feeling of superiority over others; my waning self-awareness may actually allow for me to believe i am better than them as a result of my more niche taste in consumables with sincerity.
>>7752993
garbage ingredients
>>7754388
this
>>7752804
Is it just me or have they massively changed the ingredients in UK chocolate in the past 2-3 years.
Yorkies and Double Deckers taste comparatively shitty now and are a waste of calories
>>7755390
>drink whiskey and eat dark chocolate and chew unflavored tobacco
>hobbies
????????
>>7754159
The real deal is fantastic, but there are a few cheap knockoffs on the market.
>>7754478
Good candy, mediocre chocolate.
>>7755555
They have such a high fat content it's like eating wax. The real deal is so good when it melts
>>7755555
Quint quints!
When will the "I eat bitter food therefore I am an adult" meme die off?
Let me guess you also prefer your coffee black?
>>7752860
You mean the Mast Brothers? There's an entire blog post that rants on about them being frauds.
you guys arent eating chocolate
this is chocolate
"milk" and "dark" are not reality thats a additional flavoring
also your chocolate has been heated and processed to make it shit
>>7752804
Nigga, HATING dark chocolate is a meme at this point
>>7755406
Better than any
dark chocolate is the chocolate equivalent to grape flavored medicine. I'll only eat that shit if there's no other candy available.
fuck your dark chocolate.
>>7754456
[spoiler]I actually like hershey's[/spoiler]
>>7755738
>this is chocolate
lol @ this pleb
"natural" in that context just means not dutched (alkalai processed), it's still fermented and roasted. also with such shit-tier chocolate, you're quite a bit better off if it's dutched, just about the only thing worse would be hersheys brand "raw cacao"
fyi, this is what chocolate looks like
>not making your own chocolate
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hfrWPtjVuWU
don't call other people kids if you don't make your own chocolate.
fucking kids.
>>7756202
>electric stove
stopped watching, sorry I just can't take anyone seriously if they have an electric stove
>>7752836
There's nothing wrong with lindt you stupid fucking contrarian faggot, jesus christ.
>>7755390
I am one of the people you're generalizing.
You are mostly wrong but still, very impressed by your post.
I award it one out of one conceited smirks.
Replace tobacco with tea by the way.
>>7756238
I would stick with lindt and not ruin what you have if I were you, after I tried Valrhona and Michel Cluizel everything supermarket-tier is just disappointing.
>>7755915
>chocolate
>candy
Pick one and only one, faggot.
>I'll take my chocolate as bitter as my ipa
>>7753708
Whittakers master race reporting in
Is this actually good? Because if need be, I'll fly to Europe just to eat one.
>>7757498
Once the Americans bought the company a few years ago they changed the recipe to cheaper ingredients and it went down in quality.
They also closed the charity factory and fired everyone.
Try it but it isn't anything special any more, fucking Americans.
>>7757504
Wow, I should just resort to homemade chocolate then.
This stuff is good. any sea salt dark chocolate really.
i'm not much of a chocolate elitist though. i didn't even know that was a thing until i read this thread.
someone please definitively tell me what is not a meme so i can get on with my life
i'm really hungry and i can't wear any clothes because they're memes too
i took the internet seriously and it is killing me
>>7757513
You should just eat your chocolate and relax
>>7757483
I pick candy thanks.
>>7752852
>literally tastes like vomit
ok
>>7757498
I've had this in America and in my home country. I can say personally that the American version is slightly less shit than Hershey's.
The same thing back home tastes much better, it's my standard baseline for chocolate.
>>7752804
Finally a thread I can love. I cannot stand dark chocolate. Hate people who ooze about it. "It's so healthy, Dr. Oz says so."
Dark chocolate is fedora fodder ad nauseum. Though an occasional Chunky reigns supreme.
>>7753013
mein Lidl neger
I agree, but all the pretentious assholes on this board have posted their opinions on it already.
I will continue my life enjoying milk chocolate like the man-child I am.
>>7753381
SUFFERING CLEANSES THE SOUL
As long as there's peanuts/peanut butter, I don't care
>>7753381
Sugar addiction. It fucking sucks.
>>7758441
>Sugar addiction
>buys bitter shit
Why not just get actual chocolate and not pseudo adult meme candy?
>>7752821
First post best post
>>7758387
IMO, dark chocolate peanut butter cups are better than milk chocolate peanut butter cups, but in other cases, I like both dark and milk chocolates just about interchangeably depending on my mood.
>>7752969
90% was a bit too much but I got used to it by the end of the bar.
70% is my sweet spot.
I like this brand, especially their brut
opinions?
>>7753013
oh hell yeah
>>7752836
I'd take a 99c milk chocolate bar over a gourmet, world-class dark chocolate bar any day of the fucking week. Dark chocolate is bitter-tasting shit for pretentious faggots and meme hipsters who choke down shit-tasting food in order to seem refined.
>>7758687
>he thinks price has anything to do with "good"
lol
some cheap choc is good
some cheap choc is shit
some 'spensive choc is good
some 'spensive choc is shit
how much it costs doesn't reflect its quality at all
>>7752836
Fucking this
>>7758707
>my taste is infallible and i can easily detect good chocolate
>doesn't mention even 1 good chocolate
I wish there were some proper chocolate blind tasting competitions. All they need to do to make it blind is get someone with a milling machine to create anonymous tablets from bars. Fucking trivial.
Experts like to delude themselves about their objectivity though unfortunately.
>>7758751
>buy chocolate
>tastes good!!!
>must be good chocolate
>buy chocolate
>tastes bad!!!
>must be bad chocolate
that simple, my newfriend friend
like all foods, one person's taste in chocolate != another person's taste in chocolate. what's important is that you buy/eat what you enjoy its flavour, not because of how much it costs or what some other person says you should buy/eat
>>7757510
I think sea salt and dark chocolates great.
That Ghiradelli bar fucking sucks though. It's like saw dust with just a bit of chocolate. Flavorless almonds fucking everywhere and hardly any sea salt.
>>7752860
>Valhrona, Callebaut,
Those are not better than Lindt. Those are on the same bottom tier.
>>7758824
lindt is pretty good and cheap though you stupid fucking nigger
if you have a better cheap chocolate alternative please add some substance to your posts or go back to posting in fast food threads
>>7758917
i never said it wasn't good and cheap
my first post itt was >>7758707
do you think i'm someone else or something?
>have a better suggestion
no, because it's all subjective, which was my point. if you think lindt is good and cheap and you like it, then buy it and eat it and enjoy it. my mother worked for lindt before i was born, though
but if you want to know what brands of chocolate i like, i'll tell you that, but i wouldn't ever tell anyone what i like > what he/she/you/they like/s.
>post in fast food threads
i never have
45~55% cocoa solids -- god tier
30~45% -- good tier
55~70% -- okay tier
<30% -- bad tier
>70% -- nigga what are you doing tier
>>7754452
Doesn't matter, Hershey is no longer categorically chocolate, much in the way Kraft singles are not cheese.
Since they've swapped to vegetable oils it should be listed as compound chocolate.
>>7759373
>they've swapped to vegetable oils
I know they did this in China and Korea, but did they do it in the States too?
You can't swap out cocoa butter with palm oil and still call it "chocolate" in Canada or the U.K. because of the strict laws regarding what is and isn't chocolate.
>>7754452
holy fuck
i looked it up
butyric acid
i thought it was just me that thought it tasted like vomit, but it actually fucking does, jesus christ, so glad i don't live in america
>>7757498
don't know if it's the same in America, but in Australia cadbury will always be god-tier, which is a shame because the company is a load of assholes.
>>7759445
>so glad i don't live in america
not as glad as we are
>>7759456
all good man, feel free to stay there with your shit-tier chocolate
>>7759383
Looks like they've went back to cocoa butter or maybe I was eating one of their varieties when I saw there was vegetable fat.
>>7759465
Hershey's isn't the only chocolate in America. Don't be fucking stupid.
>>7752804
>liking chocolate at all
I respect your opinion but disagree with it
Dark chocolate actually has health benefits.
I don't like either but I'd consider milk chocolate inferior just because it's basically hardened sugar.
>americans have such weird food customs
>chomps down on lutefisk
>>7754420
>eating gypsyshit chocolate
>>7759506
I think Romanians are kind of cute, what with all their putting tapestries on walls and their funny dances.
If only they'd stop stealing shit and being migratory.
>>7759494
Personally I don't understand why people even like chocolate.
>how do you like your sugar?
>just fuck my shit up
dark > white > milk
>>7759203
>he's never had good quality 85%
>>7759535
I think they're cool because they get 11 year olds to be all flirty and a bit touchy to distract you while they rob from you, which is fun as long as you're able to keep track of your valuables.
When i was growing up, this is the only chocolate my mom woukd buy, because she would use it to make other things... i used to sneak bits of it, and eat it just like it is, which is why my preference has always run towards darker chocolate. I am always comparing it to the ome i loved as a kid.
>>7760494
Like a fag i forgot the fucking picture
>>7753013
What's in those, and where can I get them?
>>7753708
Is that... milk inside chocolate?
Holy shit. That looks amazing.
>>7753013
>literally only ever tasted this for the first time when i was 19, moved out and working
my teenage pocket money could not justify more than a mars bar, but jeez did i miss out on quality chocolate nearly my whole life
>>7760502
You... eat baking chocolate?
>>7760541
I did when i was a kid, and every now and again when i am nostalgic, and cooking something with it, i will eat a piece.
>>7760552
Does it taste good to you?
>>7760556
I get why you would say that, it is undoubtedly more bitter than most people would enjoy, but for me it is a nostalgic taste. So yes, i enjoy it. But that is not to say i don't enjoy other chocolates.
>Be French
>Don't like chocolate and sweets in general
>Out of ideas for my woman's birthday present
>Decide to get a pack of "luxury" chocolate from where I live
I only tasted a few because she didn't want to eat it all on her own, and oh fuck if it wasn't her present I would have ravaged that chocolate, me who usually don't like it.
If some are curious : http://www.puyricard.fr/en/
>>7760590
Advertising your website, eh?
[spoiler] sarcasm [/spoiler]
fuck me I though ck had spoiler.
>>7759451
Haighs is the best. Cadbury is still pretty good but yeah it's run by cunts
