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Chocolate a poll

Poll: Chocolate (30 member(s) have cast votes)

What kind of Chocolate do you prefer?

  1. Dark (13 votes [43.33%])

    Percentage of vote: 43.33%

  2. Milk (8 votes [26.67%])

    Percentage of vote: 26.67%

  3. White (9 votes [30.00%])

    Percentage of vote: 30.00%

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Post icon  Posted 15 May 2008 - 02:00 AM

I am one of the few people I know who actually likes white chocolate. A couple weeks ago, I would've voted milk chocolate, but I recently discovered a nice high-percentage dark chocolate and I'm now leaning towards that. I expect it's more to do with the quality of the dark chocolate, however, than a general preference.
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Posted 15 May 2008 - 02:11 AM

Personally I enjoy 85% Lindt. Almost everyone I know eats milk chocolate instead of the tastier dark chocolate.
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Posted 15 May 2008 - 03:24 AM

Well, I think it's less to do with tastiness, as it is a more fuller chocolatey experience. Eating milk chocolate is like eating candy, you gobble it all up and then it's gone, whereas dark chocolate is something to be eaten more slowly and savored, and it lasts longer both because you eat it slower, and because it is stronger.
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Posted 15 May 2008 - 03:42 AM

I have to be fairly precise about chocolate, I have a very severe nut allergy.

I've found that I'm very rarely able to eat dark chocolate, especially the stronger stuff. White chocolate is my favourite, milk coming a fairly close second.

I generally have to go on price, too cheap and I'm allergic to it, too expensive and I'm allergic to it. So I go for the mid range stuff, like cadbury's mostly. It's usually a case of sticking with what I know...

I wish I could eat any chocolate I wanted, especially chocolate cakes and puddings in restaurants :P

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Posted 15 May 2008 - 04:11 AM

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Posted 15 May 2008 - 04:20 AM

View Postmrxak, on May 15 2008, 03:24 AM, said:

... dark chocolate is something to be eaten more slowly and savored, and it lasts longer both because you eat it slower, and because it is stronger.

That pretty much sums up what I call tasty when it comes to chocolate.
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Posted 15 May 2008 - 10:03 AM

While i generally prefer milk chocolate, there are some fantastic dark bars out there-Cocoa Pete's Carmel Knowledge bar springs to mind. I usually can't have dark chocolate straight-it has to have something in it, or be minty, or something. Overall, though, I overwhelmingly eat milk chocolate.

I'm pretty sure white chocolate isn't properly chocolate-it doesn't have any cocoa. That said, it's pretty good.
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Posted 15 May 2008 - 10:58 AM

WHITE CHOCOLATE NOM NOM NOM
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Posted 15 May 2008 - 11:22 AM

Depends. White chocolate's nice in moderation but it gets kinda sickening after awhile.
Dark chocolate is rich and luxurious, but again you can't eat too much of it.
Milk chocolate you could eat forever.

So really they all have their ups and downs, I can't say any one is my "favorite."
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Posted 15 May 2008 - 11:38 AM

Cadbury's is excellent quality for its price, in my opinion. Unforunately it can be quite hard to find in the US.

Personally, I prefer either dark chocolate or white chocolate. White chocolate is more of a comfort food; something you have on a cold winter day to warm you up and give you energy. Dark chocolate's a more civilised kind of chocolate, something you savour with your coffee as the dinner party's winding down.
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Posted 15 May 2008 - 02:36 PM

View PostManta, on May 15 2008, 04:20 AM, said:

That pretty much sums up what I call tasty when it comes to chocolate.


Fair enough.

View PostThe Journalist, on May 15 2008, 10:03 AM, said:

I'm pretty sure white chocolate isn't properly chocolate-it doesn't have any cocoa. That said, it's pretty good.


It has to be at least 20% cocoa butter in the US. Whether or not you want to include it is up to you, but it does have chocolate in the name so it's in the poll.
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Posted 15 May 2008 - 04:20 PM

Right now I would prefer white, but it always varies.
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Posted 15 May 2008 - 05:38 PM

I generally prefer either dark or milk chocolate cut with something else (mint, hazelnut paste, etc.) or coating something (candied orange peel, candied ginger, etc.). If it's just straight chocolate, I tend to prefer dark, but would rather melt it over a bit of apple or something.

I'll eat a bit of white chocolate every once in a while, but it's typically to just prove to myself that I still don't like it very much. I eat more than a few bits of white chocolate and I start to feel ill.

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Posted 15 May 2008 - 08:35 PM

View Postmrxak, on May 15 2008, 12:36 PM, said:

It has to be at least 20% cocoa butter in the US. Whether or not you want to include it is up to you, but it does have chocolate in the name so it's in the poll.


Huh, I did not know this. Makes sense, really.
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Posted 16 May 2008 - 12:27 AM

View Postmrxak, on May 15 2008, 07:36 PM, said:

Fair enough.
It has to be at least 20% cocoa butter in the US. Whether or not you want to include it is up to you, but it does have chocolate in the name so it's in the poll.

Expanding on that a little;

There are two components which are separated out of cacao beans. Cocoa Butter is the vegetable fat; it's pale yellow, not very strongly flavoured, and useful in a variety of applications. Cocoa Solids, often known simply as Cocoa, is the non-fat component of the beans. It's reddish-brown, rather bitter, and gives the characteristic "chocolate" flavour to chocolate.

White Chocolate, having only Cocoa Butter, thus tastes very different to Milk or Dark Chocolate, which contain both. When you buy chocolate which labels the percentage of cocoa (say, 85%), that usually refers to the total of Cocoa Butter and Cocoa Solids. In the case of high numbers, this means very little milk and sugar, resulting in the characteristic bitterness of high purity chocolates.
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Posted 16 May 2008 - 07:09 PM

Quite.
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Posted 16 May 2008 - 07:21 PM

Dark chocolate for me. 70-85% is about right.
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Posted 16 May 2008 - 07:35 PM

I'll take any chocolate, but I could eat dark chocolate forever.
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Posted 16 May 2008 - 11:33 PM

Well see, that's just a lie there. :P

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Posted 16 May 2008 - 11:37 PM

How should I qualify that statement? :P

"I could eat dark chocolate forever, until I died." ?
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Posted 17 May 2008 - 11:57 AM

I like all chocolate. Dark chocolate-coffee combinations are great even though they keep me awake forever. Milk chocolate is amazing as well, and white chocolate has its applications.
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Posted 17 May 2008 - 05:26 PM

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Posted 18 May 2008 - 01:38 AM

Milk Chocolate. I remember from Spain eating a brand called "Milka" in a purple wrapper... that was the best effin mass-market chocolate I had ever had. Do any of you Europeos eat that stuff? And can you send me some?
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Posted 18 May 2008 - 06:13 AM

Oh yeah, chocolate + coffee = win.
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