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Post by Jules80 on Mar 1, 2006 14:24:48 GMT -5
So I had a case of the afternoon munchies so i went to the vending machine and saw a cadbury's chocolate bar. so i bought the cadbury's one cause i love it in the UK... however I ate it and it just didn't taste very good... i looked nore closely at the label and its not even real chocoalte! its classified as "candy" cause there's not enough actual cocao in it! blech! why is it that we are incapable of making good chocolate in NA?? Cadbury's is awsome in the UK!
Jules... done ranting for the day and is now going back to reading a very boring paper...
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Post by me on Mar 1, 2006 15:38:51 GMT -5
just looked at the label from a bar of Hershey's dark. [i'd left out to remind me to buy more] 1st ingredient listed, sugar. 2nd is chocolate, 3rd is cocoa butter . . . etc, etc.
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Post by WillTravel on Mar 1, 2006 15:53:19 GMT -5
You can get pretty good stuff here at home - but it's so costly in general. I can think of a few brands made with organic chocolate. In the UK, a good-size Green & Black bar is only 1 pound at Tesco. I can't stand any sort of cheap NA chocolate - except on rare occasion, Reese's peanut butter cups.
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Post by LHR02 on Mar 1, 2006 15:54:04 GMT -5
I'm with you Jules! I am not much of a chocolate eater here at home, but in Europe I promise I have a bar in my bags at all times! Great for a late night 'nibble' and it just tastes so much better. I think the US versions are just too 'sugar' heavy and the varied tastes of the chocolate are lost to the sweet. Even cheap/supermarket bars over there taste so much better than here. I miss my nightly chocolate fix!  |
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Post by Jules80 on Mar 1, 2006 16:53:03 GMT -5
well i can buy good stuff like lindt or whatever but its expensive and not in my school's vending machine. but to be called chocolate and not candy (like the yucky cadbury thing i ate today is called) it has to have a certain percentage of cacoa and cacao butter. other wise its not actually considered chocolate. and the percentage both are combined in determines if its dark or white and well with milk its milk chocolate. (can we tell i visited the chocolate museum in bruges?) oh if anyone is gonna be in belgium at the end of april, there's a chocolate festival in bruges at the chocolate museum. all this to say... "chocolate bars" here are not usually actually chocolate. whereas they often are in europe. i miss european chocolate...
Ging... how's tennessee?
Jules
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Post by dougj on Mar 2, 2006 11:18:42 GMT -5
if we have chocolate we usually pick up some ritter's sport. not too expensive and tastes great. got hooked on it in amsterdam....we can get it at shopper's drug mart here. just discovered a few local places carrying orangina as well.
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Post by Eagle on Mar 2, 2006 15:38:06 GMT -5
I don't eat chocolate too often, but I'll have to see if I can find any European varieties in the local stores in order to see what all the fuss is about. There was yet another report on the News this week regarding some "health benefits" from eating chocolate, but I'm not sure it would be any help in the "weight" situation.
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Post by me on Mar 2, 2006 15:42:26 GMT -5
NA chocolate often contains more sugar than European chocolate. might less sugar contribute less to the weight issue? I'm not sure it would be any help in the "weight" situation. |
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Post by Jules80 on Mar 2, 2006 16:09:13 GMT -5
the whole heath bit is for dark chocolate. specifically the variety that has over 70% cacao. mum was at a conference a few years ago and there was talk about it being beneficial in preventing certain cancers. dark chocolate has somthing to do with anti-oxidants and those being beneficial to your health... okay so i found a link for it... www.webmd.com/content/article/73/81921.htm |
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Post by me on Mar 2, 2006 16:28:11 GMT -5
to what extent was all this funded by companies that sell dark chocolate? that might play a role. the whole heath bit is for dark chocolate. |
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