Could be a brand or just a type of chocolate

    • bitchkat@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      3 months ago

      Sounds like the ones my mom made. I have her recipe and should try to make some time.

  • saltesc@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    I know the question didn’t ask for it, but I don’t like chocolate, ha!

    But I love two specific types; salted dark chocolate or chilli dark chocolate. Especially with a glass of tempranillo. Brand don’t really matter, but generally the bigger brands just don’t do dark chocolate well and put way too much sugar in. I don’t have a sweet tooth and all other chocolates—including other dark chocolate—I don’t really care for.

    • Interstellar_1@pawb.socialOP
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      3 months ago

      Ooh yeah, same opinoins here. I’ve never tried chilli dark chocolate though - I’ll have to be on the lookout for that.

    • sicarius@lemmy.world
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      3 months ago

      Here here! I also am not a big fan of chocolate, but dark chocolate, with chilli! Ooh la la.

  • j4k3@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    Non dairy! All the best chocolate is non dairy. I didn’t realize this until I was on opioid pain meds for a few years and had to get off dairy entirely. All the American crap uses cheap milk fat as a filler. Once I started only consuming chocolate that is non-dairy the difference is substantial. Anything is pretty much great if you simply use this trick. The easiest way is just look for vegan marketing. All vegan deserts are best, seriously, and I’m no vegan.

    I still follow my food rules like, I don’t eat in a chemistry lab storage cabinet, and all flavorings are, at best “strawberry from a beaver’s butt gland” level of natural. If you are not familiar with the reference, there was a 60 Minutes episode 10-20 years ago on the flavorings industry. One of the highlight remarks was the origin of natural strawberry flavor… I consider all additive flavorings of any kind as drugs. Not in a tin foil hat sense, but more of a ‘Madd Hatter CEO has no ethics’ and makes a junk product with no real value sense. I’m not eating chocolate flavored sawdust.

    • ArumiOrnaught@kbin.social
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      3 months ago

      If you’re American try other countries chocolate. Not something like Cadbury you buy at Walmart, but go to an international grocer or pay for a box of chocolates and have them shipped to you and eat them over the next 3 months. Most American chocolatiers try to mimic Hershey flavor because that’s what’s most popular.

    • virku@lemmy.world
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      3 months ago

      I don’t agree. I’m Norwegian though, so there is a bit of a difference in how our chocolate is made with regards to additives. Our Milk chocolate is the shit! Additives to it is also great, but they come in the form of actual pieces of dried fruit or salted corn chips, tiny pieces of fudge, brownies etc, etc.

      • cabbage@piefed.social
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        3 months ago

        Freia milk chocolate is the shit. Especially the one with salted almonds.

        In continental Europe (except Benelux) I find milk chocolate often gets too sugary, while dark chocolate is usually more expensive but maintains a high quality. I have never been to the US, but I am inherently sceptical of what they might pass as chocolate over there.

        As far as Norwegian chocolate goes, I share my favourite chocolate with a lot of senior citizens: Mokkabønner are amazing. Dark chocolate beans with a hint of coffee, amazing with a cup of java in the morning.

        • virku@lemmy.world
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          3 months ago

          Oh yeah, mokkabønner are awesome! And I don’t really enjoy dark chocolate that much in general. I get really sad every time I have gotten Kremtopper by accident. Why are those boxes so damn similar anyway? And often stocked in the same shelf as well…

  • hperrin@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    There was a small chocolatier in Santa Cruz named Mutari Chocolate House that had the best 100% cacao chocolate bars I’ve ever tasted. The flavor was so complex and delicious. Just bordering on bitter, but not quite there. Unfortunately they closed down and I’ve never found 100% chocolate as good as theirs. 85% from the grocery store is the highest I’ll go, because the 100% you get there is blegh.

  • Delphia@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    Cadbury dairy milk.

    Its like the top of the line Toyota Camry of chocolates. Its not going to make the snobs happy, but theres absolutely nothing wrong with it. Its just really fucking good basic ass chocolate.