White chocolate v dark chocolate

[Goldie Munro]

I am a dark chocolate gal - the darker and more bitter the better.

I never used to be like this I used to like milk chocolate and orange flavoured chocolate (ooooh still love orange flavoured chocolate and mint and...) anyway - when did white chocolate become the big thing? You can't move for white choc - white choc Smarties, Cookies, Ice cream etc - yeuch!!

Give me real chocolate - 90% cocoa solids or nothing!

I guess there are lots of white choc lovers out there - sigh

 

[shereads]

White chocolate is nothing but sickeningly sweet cocoa butter with the interesting parts removed. People who prefer white chocolate should be prohibited from marrying. It's the only solution.

Stupid white-chocolate states.

 

[McKenna]

Funny this subject came up...


After yesterday here in the States, I was craving a pick-me-up in the form of my favorite vice: chocolate. I went to the World Market to pick up some of my favorite Dutch chocolates, Droste pastilles. My husband likes the extra-dark, I like the pastilles that are half milk chocolate and half dark. Yum!


White chocolate.... bleh. Nasty stuff.

 

[Goldie Munro]

Girls after my own heart!

 

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[impressive]

Milk chocolate.

With ya, rhino!

 

[Guest]

 

[shereads]

A local market sells slabs of Brazilian chocolate with minced hazelnuts. A big chunk of it makes an effective doorstop or a tasty snack. If you eat enough of it, you're guaranteed to be sick. It's fabulous.

Question for the anti-white-chocolate people: did you find Tootsie Rolls disappointing when you were children? They looked like chocolate, and I kept eating them as if one day they'd actually taste good. Never happened.

 

[Goldie Munro]

I got no bones with milk chocolate its white chocolate that makes me heave guys!

 

[impressive]

Impressive!
your AV-line reminds me....
milk chococlate coconut clusters....mmmm

a/k/a "haystacks" ... agreed!

 

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[lucky-E-leven]

I've heard chocolate cocvered strawberries from Godiva are to die for.



~lucky

p.s. Don't let Abs see you saying "white chocolate". You'll get a big speech about how it's not actually chocolate and on and on and on...

 

[ABSTRUSE]

There is no such thing as white chocolate.

 

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[lucky-E-leven]

There is no such thing as white chocolate.

What'd I tell ya'?

It's okay, love. Simmer down.

~lucky

 

[ABSTRUSE]

kinda like "Caucasian Soul"?

come on...play that funky music, white boy

Thank you.

 

[impressive]

mmmmmMILK chocolate on strawberries!

On Lucky's tummy ... *salivating*

 

[ABSTRUSE]

What'd I tell ya'?

It's okay, love. Simmer down.

~lucky

Too late.......If I were president, the term "white chocolate" would be stricken from the records and anyone using it would be forced into hard labor picking cacao beans.

I feel better now.

 

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[fogbank]

Hey, I've gotta say a couple words in defense of white chocolate: almond bark. Every Christmas I make a nice big batch of almond bark, and I've tried making it with various real chocolates, and it just doesn't taste as good to me. Maybe it's a nostalgia thing for me, as this was how my dad made it every Christmas when I was growing up. I'm not a fan of white chocolate as an all-purpose substitute for real chocolate in cooking and snacking, but when it comes to almond bark, there's no substitute for the... ummm... unreal thing.

 

[R. Richard]

Chocolate, is a good source of compounds called flavonoids that help maintain a healthy heart, promote good blood circulation, and reduce the risk of blood clots. A bar of dark chocolate contains as many flavonoids as four cups of tea, six apples, and 2 glasses of red wine.

Chocolate is also a good source of the minerals magnesium and phosphorus.

I only eat chocolate because of the flavonoids, the magnesium and the phosphorous.

I also have a bridge in Brooklyn for sale at an amazingly low price!

 

[ABSTRUSE]

Because white chocolate has no cocoa solids from the chocolate liquor, the FDA doesn't classify it as chocolate. However, the organization is working with chocolate manufacturers to establish a standard definition for white chocolate. Until a standard is published, check labels and beware of "white chocolate" that contains vegetable fat instead of cocoa butter. The quality and taste are inferior.


I'm on a roll, this is my politics religion and sex all rolled into one.

 

[lucky-E-leven]

On Lucky's tummy ... *salivating*

~lucky (your turn, Imp)

 

[lucky-E-leven]

Because white chocolate has no cocoa solids from the chocolate liquor, the FDA doesn't classify it as chocolate. However, the organization is working with chocolate manufacturers to establish a standard definition for white chocolate. Until a standard is published, check labels and beware of "white chocolate" that contains vegetable fat instead of cocoa butter. The quality and taste are inferior.


I'm on a roll, this is my politics religion and sex all rolled into one.

It's good to be an expert on such important things, Abs.

~lucky