Godiva dark chocolate is the best

[Cyrus]

I don't like sweet things (candy). I like sweet drinks though, like soda.

I like dark chocolate.

I bought Hershey's Dark chocolate squres 60% CACO and I think its pretty good.

I just bought a GHIRARDELLI 86% CACO. You eat it and it does not have much taste but then it comes at you a few seconds later. Its really intense. I am not sure if I like it that dark. Its not bitter, it just has a slight rasberry taste or something.

I think Godiva dark chocolate is the best I've had so far though. I also like their dark chocolate with mint inside.

http://www.kristoferbrozio.com/wp-c...ntensedarkmidnightreverie86c-f142dscf3996.jpg

http://www.chocablog.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/05/hersheysextradark1.jpg

 

[mcknia07]

I will like only eat good dark chocolate. I will warn you, don't buy 99% dark chocolate. It tastes like dirt, but it is healthy for you.

 

[Cyrus]

I've bought other GHIRARDELLI chocolate, and I've never like any of it. I'm not buying it anymore. It's expensive, and it sucks.

 

[mcknia07]

I was never a fan of Ghirardelli chocolate...there is way better out there, and some of it is even cheaper, too. Oh, I had the best dark chocolate truffles...Oh they were to die for.

 

[Werg22]

I'm a conservative in terms of chocolate. I don't eat any chocolate other than milk chocolate with hazelnuts.

 

[mcknia07]

Milk chocolate makes me sick, it's way too sweet for my taste.

 

[Proton Soup]

i like the dark ghirardhelli. the problem with the hershey's is they always put some milk in there. milkfat tends to bind up some of the antioxidant activity of the chocolate.

 

[Werg22]

Milk chocolate makes me sick, it's way too sweet for my taste.

Have you good quality milk chocolate?

 

[mcknia07]

Have you good quality milk chocolate?

I've had so called "good" milk chocolate, still can't handle it. I liked it when I was younger, but now growing up, it's only the dark for me :)

 

[Cyrus]

i like the dark ghirardhelli. the problem with the hershey's is they always put some milk in there. milkfat tends to bind up some of the antioxidant activity of the chocolate.

Well, I don't really care about any antioxidant activity. let's be real, I'm not eating this for my health the same way I don't drink beer for my health.

I think the problem is that all these chocolates lack what godiva has, richness in flavor. None of these compare to Godiva. When you bite into Godiva the flavor is just there.

Godiva is the only milk chocolate I'll eat, but I am not crazy about it.

Another interesting property of chocolate is temperature. I'm not crazy about kit kats. But if you put them in the freezer and then eat them, they don't taste as sweet. I think its because it doesn't melt in your mouth when its that cold. It just breaks appart like dark chocolate does when you eat it.

 

[CaptainQuasar]

Y'know what's totally awesome, is German http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scho-Ka-Kola" if you can find it - dark chocolate with coffee and kola nut (one of the basic ingredients flavoring Coca-Cola) in it.

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[JasonRox]

Not a fan of chocolote or having too many sweet things.

I really enjoy sour candies but only like 2 of them once and awhile.

I tried dark chocolote, and I didn't really like it at all.

 

[Moonbear]

Ooh, Godiva's chocolates are ALL good!

They get the dark chocolate just right, so it's not like chomping on baking chocolate (not that there's anything wrong with that either ), but it all has just the right texture to it so it really coats the tongue to enjoy all the yummy goodness of the chocolate.

 

[~christina~]

Best chocolate EVER : http://www.groovycandies.com/sendbinary.asp?path=D%3A%5Cwwwroot%5Cgroovycandies.com%5Cuploadmedia%5Cimages%5C809L.jpg&Width=450

 

[DEW]

Well, you just can't beat Cadbury's chocolate buttons and lots of them, especially when life is getting difficult.

 

[Math Is Hard]

Best chocolate EVER : http://www.groovycandies.com/sendbinary.asp?path=D%3A%5Cwwwroot%5Cgroovycandies.com%5Cuploadmedia%5Cimages%5C809L.jpg&Width=450

I concur! The hazelnut ones are my fave.

 

[CaptainQuasar]

I think it's funny that another name for hazelnuts is "filberts". Filbert makes me think of a teenaged nerd with thick-rimmed glasses and enormous ears. Or perhaps it would be good name for a cute little dog.

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[physics girl phd]

Mmm... I've glad after reading this thread that I just went down the street to my candy-supplier and bought chocolate-covered raisins, malted milk-balls, Ande's mints (when I was a kid, we bought these for gramma!), and some Vermont maple-syrup candy. I may have to get off PF to eat some! Can't get sugar on the keyboard!

 

[physics girl phd]

Filbert... good name for a cute little dog.

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Did tribdog keep his foundling? It'd be a good name for that cuttie!

 

[binzing]

I think it's funny that another name for hazelnuts is "filberts". Filbert makes me think of a teenaged nerd with thick-rimmed glasses and enormous ears. Or perhaps it would be good name for a cute little dog.

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Which brings to mind a convo i recently had with my dad and uncle about this topic, which morphed into a story about how when my dad had taught on the res (Navajo) there were three students at his school, brothers, named Philbert, Wilbert, and Billbert...

 

[Moonbear]

...and some Vermont maple-syrup candy.

I really need to find a drooling smiley! I LOVE maple syrup candy! Ooh, or maple-walnut fudge!

 

[~christina~]

I concur! The hazelnut ones are my fave.

Oo what colour is the wrapper of that one?

 

[TheStatutoryApe]

Arizona used to make a good chocolate soda but I can't find it any more. I tried making some myself when I worked at a coffee house but it never turned out right.

 

[Proton Soup]

I think it's funny that another name for hazelnuts is "filberts". Filbert makes me think of a teenaged nerd with thick-rimmed glasses and enormous ears. Or perhaps it would be good name for a cute little dog.

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but the things called filberts that come in bags of mixed nuts are nothing like hazelnuts. i find filberts bitter and disgusting.

 

[CaptainQuasar]

but the things called filberts that come in bags of mixed nuts are nothing like hazelnuts. i find filberts bitter and disgusting.

Hmmm. Wikipedia says that filberts are a slightly different species from common hazelnuts, but they're still hazelnuts. I only bought some once and it was a long time ago so I don't remember what they tasted like.

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[fileen]

I always loved chocolate, and I've continued to like it darker and darker and now, I can even eat the 86%. I agree that the 99% is disgusting, but I like it at 86%. I have no problem with milk chocolate its just not my preference. I once was given dark chocolate truffles from my boyfriend that were just to die for. I've asked him to either tell me where he got them or bring me more but he claims he's been unable to find them. The best way to enjoy chocolate is to make your own hot cocoa. Real cream (a low percent or youll feel sick), cocoa and even hazel nuts if that's what your into. This way you can make it as sweet as you want. Its all up to you. This really milky chocolate but I like it because its not sweet. Its not the milk I don't like its all the added sugar.

 

[DEW]

The best hot chocolate drink I've ever had was in France. Absolutely delicious.

 

[Cyrus]

You know, out of all places starbucks has very rich tasting hot chocolate.

 

[Moonbear]

but the things called filberts that come in bags of mixed nuts are nothing like hazelnuts. i find filberts bitter and disgusting.

You need to roast them for them to get that yummy taste they have in baked goods.

 

[Proton Soup]

You need to roast them for them to get that yummy taste they have in baked goods.

ah, is that the trick? that should make for an interesting experiment. the shells on the filberts are much thicker than on chestnuts. do you crack them all first? or just let the steam do it?

 

[Cyrus]

Oh, so that's what you call those things. I eat them raw all the time.

 

[physics girl phd]

I really need to find a drooling smiley!

How 'bout this one?

Google is an amazing thing. You can find anything in seconds.

 

[physics girl phd]

or how about this one?

It's jubilant!

 

[joeyar]

Apparently a pool of saliva makes a good trampoline.

 

[Evo]

ah, is that the trick? that should make for an interesting experiment. the shells on the filberts are much thicker than on chestnuts. do you crack them all first? or just let the steam do it?

If you want to toast hazelnuts, you would do it after they are shelled, just like you would toast almonds.

I eat hazelnuts just as they are from the shell.

Also, fliberts are not hazelnuts, but are closely related.

Common hazel is typically a shrub reaching 3-8 m tall, but can reach 15 m. The leaves are deciduous, rounded, 6-12 cm long and across, softly hairy on both surfaces, and with a double-serrate margin. The flowers are produced very early in spring, before the leaves, and are monoecious with single-sex wind-pollinated catkins. Male catkins are pale yellow and 5-12 cm long, while female catkins are very small and largely concealed in the buds with only the bright red 1-3 mm long styles visible. The fruit is a nut, produced in clusters of one to five together, each nut held in a short leafy involucre ('husk') which encloses about three quarters of the nut. The nut is roughly spherical to oval, 15-20 mm long and 12-20 mm broad (larger, up to 25 mm long, in some cultivated selections), yellow-brown with a pale scar at the base. The nut falls out of the involucre when ripe, about 7-8 months after pollination.[1][3][4]

It is readily distinguished from the closely related Filbert (Corylus maxima) by the short involucre; in the Filbert the nut is fully enclosed by a beak-like involucre longer than the nut.[1]

Hazelnut

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corylus_avellana

Filbert

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corylus_maxima

 

[Moonbear]

ah, is that the trick? that should make for an interesting experiment. the shells on the filberts are much thicker than on chestnuts. do you crack them all first? or just let the steam do it?

Take them out of the shells first!

How 'bout this one?

Google is an amazing thing. You can find anything in seconds.

Looks more like it's wetting itself. I think I have at least a few more years to go before I need that one.