[quote=“TheGingerMan”]How about Cadbury’s being taken over by, [shudder], Kraft?
North American chocolate is an abomination. The Euros make the best, most especially the British and the Germans.
I am currently fixated on Cadbury’s Twirl, which I get my aunts to mail from Blighty.[/quote]
You can buy excellent chocolate in many areas of the US - not all urban, either. For example, here is an excellent chocolate shop in podunk Wichita, Kansas. Rarely do large grocery stores or big box retailers like WalMart or Target or Costco carry anything better than Lindt’s. It’s also not cheap. You just have to find a good shop and be willing to part with some coin. And avoid the ‘organic chocolate’ shops as a general rule.
In Taipei, just off Yongkang Street there’s a store specializing in hot chocolate. Pricy but nice.
And someone recently gave me some Lindt Excellence Intense Orange, which I quite liked. But I haven’t seen this particular type of Lindt for sale in Taiwan.
I dont like LIndt that much but I do really like that one you posted. Thats the best from LIndt for me so far. Just like I dont really like this brand much either, although its a SF local
Ok, just got me a bar of GODIVA choclate , made in Germany. 100g for 4 bucks. Twice the price of the Ritter (also German) chocolate that I have been raving bout. Specifically the MIlkChocolate with hazelnuts one.
This one? is 50pct cacao with orange. I think its not bad. Its a "grown ups " chocolate. A mature flavor, probably goes well with coffee. But? Not as “fun” a chocolate as the Ritter.
At 4 bucks? Nah, give me two bars of Ritter danke…
Our local Carrefour sold After Eights for a very short time last year. I bought half a dozen boxes, but they quickly disappeared from the shelves and haven’t been restocked. I glance at the chocolate section from time to time just in case, but I don’t hold out much hope of their ever reappearing.
Now I’m making do with the haul of chocs that I brought back from my last visit to Costco - jars of chocolate raisins and chocolate almonds, and bags of chocolate pomegranates and European chocolates (Belgian, Swiss and French). They’re all quite scrumptious, and I eat far too many of them.
Going a little off topic, but I found that strange whilst living in Taiwan. On several occasions I found something I really liked in a store, bought up all the stock and then found that they didn’t replace it. Just seemed a bit odd. You’d think that the boss would say ‘These are doing very well, let’s get some more.’
I have a box of After Eights in front of me right now. Sorry. :lick:
This happens to me consistently enough that I can only shrug my shoulders nowadays. At least once a year. A lot of things are just trials which don’t appease the Taiwanese market I suppose and I also try to buy a lot so in theory they’ll think they’re selling well but my contribution is obviously tiny in the big picture and so it goes off the shelf.
Weiss Raspberry and cream iceblocks, Lays Sea Salt and Balsamic Vinegar crisps are 2 I can remember from the last 18 months and they used to sell a really nice frozen yoghurt iceblock at the 711 which stopped as soon as I became a daily purchaser :fume:
I guess it has to come down to business reasons, but you’d think the boss would work out the margins before stocking western specialties in the first place (if they sell out we still don’t make enough money so why bother in the first place?). I remember Matsusei used to have a western section, and quite rapidly every line reduced until there was no more stock. Once the entire section was empty enough the western section was removed.
All very strange. Anyway, I’m off now to the specialist Thai shop in my very small English town (where the entire Thai population comprises the staff of said shop and wife of one of the landords). I need to buy some dumpling pastry, some tamarind paste and baby aubergines.
All very strange. Anyway, I’m off now to the specialist Thai shop in my very small English town (where the entire Thai population comprises the staff of said shop and wife of one of the landords). I need to buy some dumpling pastry, some tamarind paste and baby aubergines.[/quote]
Just chowing down on some Chinese branded sugar free iced sencha and some Japanese crispy seaweed and some miso I got from round the corner.
All very strange. Anyway, I’m off now to the specialist Thai shop in my very small English town (where the entire Thai population comprises the staff of said shop and wife of one of the landords). I need to buy some dumpling pastry, some tamarind paste and baby aubergines.[/quote]
Just chowing down on some Chinese branded sugar free iced sencha and some Japanese crispy seaweed and some miso I got from round the corner. [/quote]
Crispy seaweed :lick: . I think I’ll get some tonight.
Crispy seaweed is good. The Godiva chocolate bar I got on second try the next day, yes its quite good. Not sweet like chocolate usually is and the orange flavor is subtle (like it should be i guess). Give it a try if you see it there.
Don’t eat the stuff. Used to love it but don’t eat milk, or sugar, and pure chocolate is like speed and not good for my system.
(Wow, this is a pretty boring post. Who cares what snacks I chow through? Waiting to harvest my pineapples on Farmville, then I will exit this place and resume having a life.)
I recommend tiny soccer balls. If I eat five of 'em, I can levitate. They come in purple, green, blue, orange, and black, and they’re manufactured by the Tiny Soccer Ball Corporation, outta Topeka, Kansas.
Don’t eat more than five, or you’ll think you’re immortal. And don’t eat the foil part, it tastes bad and it’s bad for your digestion.
This is an old post, but still feel the need to point out that this is not true any longer. Scharffen Berger and Dagoba were both bought by Hershey. Scharffen Berger’s factory has since closed; not sure about Dagoba but don’t either can be considered a bean to bar maker anymore. Scharffen Berger haven’t made any new Limited Edition bars, which were quite good.
The standard Michel Cluizel bars are readily available in department store supermarkets, and Dean & Deluca in the basement of Breeze has their single plantation bars. I think they cost something like $300 for the standard bars and a crazy $400 for the specialty bars. D&D also carries some of the Amedei specialty bars.
But when my friends visit from the US, all I ask for are dark chocolate peanut M&M’s
If you do a poll, do it good … make it consistent … or make it really funny … mention only countries … and in any case, many countries have chocolate manufacturers that are making different kinds of chocolate … so, even per country it would be difficult …
Dark, milk, white can be from any country making chocolate … Hershey is a brand, not a country … fondue is a mixture …
