On The Merits of American Chocolate

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It gets bashed and belittled, but I just had a little snack-size Hershey bar somebody left by the fax machine; and it was fine. Krackle is not the best quality - too oily - but Mr. Goodbar is good. Sixlets and Ice Cubes aren't so good, but I'm not sure if they're actually chocolate. Ghiradelli is pretty rocking.

Defend or destroy American chocolate.

― andy, Tuesday, 27 January 2004 18:08 (twenty-two years ago)

I thought Ghiradelli was Swiss?

― phil-two (phil-two), Tuesday, 27 January 2004 18:23 (twenty-two years ago)

ghiraRdelli is this san francisco chocolate that regardless of what the quality of it is, is completely built upon this fabricated mythology.

― gygax! (gygax!), Tuesday, 27 January 2004 18:28 (twenty-two years ago)

hershey's kisses are fun to eat, if a bit waxy.

― lauren (laurenp), Tuesday, 27 January 2004 18:29 (twenty-two years ago)

There's a lot to hate about certain US chocolates, but there's some worthwhile too. What is it about our tastes that lead to very sweet and milky/waxy subpar chocolate prevailing in the USA? OTOH we don't have Kinder milk bars. I wish we had Kinder eggs because I love putting together the toys, but we think our kids are so stupid that they'll eat the entire egg including toy, so we've outlawed them.

Anyway, I brought a coworker a 72% dark chocolate bar back from italy and he asked if it was safe to eat!! He thought it might be baking chocolate!

― teeny (teeny), Tuesday, 27 January 2004 18:30 (twenty-two years ago)

(looks around guiltily, face smeared with baking chocolate)

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Tuesday, 27 January 2004 18:31 (twenty-two years ago)

but the kinderegg chocolate is so gross. kinder buenos, i like though

― phil-two (phil-two), Tuesday, 27 January 2004 18:31 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.max.hi-ho.ne.jp/psychographers/CHOCO.jpg

― kephm, Tuesday, 27 January 2004 18:52 (twenty-two years ago)

Most american chocolate has a waxiness to it that makes it unpalatable. That said, Ghiradelli is pretty good and Reese's will always be classic.

― El Diablo Robotico (Nicole), Tuesday, 27 January 2004 18:55 (twenty-two years ago)

World's Finest lives up to its name. not sure if it's american though.

― Felcher (Felcher), Tuesday, 27 January 2004 18:57 (twenty-two years ago)

If we want to talk about merits of American chocolate, I can tell you that I craft the foil wrapping and little paper flag of a Hershey's kiss into a cute little sperm. It's fun for the kids.

― Jeanne Fury (Jeanne Fury), Tuesday, 27 January 2004 18:58 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.qsp.ca/images/en/products/wfc/2_straight/milk_chocolate_nuts_free.jpg

Mmmmm... fundraiser chocolate.

― andy, Tuesday, 27 January 2004 18:59 (twenty-two years ago)

bizarre, one of my coworkers just came up to my trying to sell me some World's Finest Chocolate for his granddaughter. im really getting freaked out.

― Felcher (Felcher), Tuesday, 27 January 2004 19:00 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.hometownfavorites.com/images/items/Large/hfca502.jpg

What the fuck is this? Never heard of it.

― andy, Tuesday, 27 January 2004 19:04 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.hometownfavorites.com/images/items/Large/HFCA451.jpg

????

― andy, Tuesday, 27 January 2004 19:07 (twenty-two years ago)

There used to be a store location of Hawaiian Vintage Chocolate on U of Illinois campus when I went to school there and their stuff is gooooood. Single-handedly gives American choc a good name.

― oops (Oops), Tuesday, 27 January 2004 19:10 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm a little suspicious of the new dark-chocolate fad that's sweeping the nation (you fuckers eat nothing but milk chocolate for DECADES and you just NOW decide that dark chocolate isn't disgusting?) but since I love the stuff so much I'm pretty glad to see stores carrying dark chocolate bars that HAVEN'T been sitting on the shelves for five years.

― aleksandr supertramp (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 27 January 2004 19:13 (twenty-two years ago)

Let me second this dark chocolate love. :-)

Anyway, about Ghirardelli's -- mock it at your peril, feebs. When the ice cream parlor at South Coast Plaza closed down, I wept bitter tears.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 27 January 2004 19:19 (twenty-two years ago)

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Hershey's Special Dark has been around for years... but in truth, when the Halloween variety park comes in with Hershey's, Krackle, Mr. Goodbar, etc., the dark ones are left behind {sniff!}. Whitebread America is afraid of dark thinks: beer, turkey, bread, etc.

― andy, Tuesday, 27 January 2004 19:21 (twenty-two years ago)

ghirardelli is the bomb. the chocolate bomb.

― aleksandr supertramp (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 27 January 2004 19:25 (twenty-two years ago)

andy, special dark is in the variety pack!

― tokyo rosemary (rosemary), Tuesday, 27 January 2004 19:33 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.gpi.org/glasstalk_images/2002/Nov02/mole.jpg

Ahhh, the Original American Chocolate. Who's down with the mole?

― andy, Tuesday, 27 January 2004 19:34 (twenty-two years ago)

"andy, special dark is in the variety pack!"

I know they're in the bag, and that's where they stay... nobody chooses the dark.

― andy, Tuesday, 27 January 2004 19:35 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm happy to have all of them. I like that other people don't like dark chocolate, the more for me!

― JuliaA (j_bdules), Tuesday, 27 January 2004 19:43 (twenty-two years ago)

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Quality American Chocolate.

― Paul in Santa Cruz (Paul in Santa Cruz), Tuesday, 27 January 2004 20:12 (twenty-two years ago)

*resists star wars joke*

― teeny (teeny), Tuesday, 27 January 2004 22:43 (twenty-two years ago)

i was thinking the same

― Felcher (Felcher), Tuesday, 27 January 2004 22:43 (twenty-two years ago)

'Made with authentic Yoda peat'

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 27 January 2004 22:51 (twenty-two years ago)

I had a Reese's Peanut Butter Cup today for the first time in ages. I thought "Hrmmmm, uuhhh, I don't remember them tasting this oily."

― the river fleet, Wednesday, 28 January 2004 00:30 (twenty-two years ago)

good chocolate from philly:

http://www.justborn.com/images/products/chew_sub2.jpg

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Wednesday, 28 January 2004 01:59 (twenty-two years ago)

mmmmmmm peanut chews

― tokyo rosemary (rosemary), Wednesday, 28 January 2004 02:28 (twenty-two years ago)

mmmmmmole!

― Orbit (Orbit), Wednesday, 28 January 2004 02:30 (twenty-two years ago)

Ghirardelli's brownie mix knocks the friggin' pants off the other brands, and it's only like 50 cents more a box.

Yeah, dark chocolate is my fave by far. Why do people dislike it?

― Clarke B., Wednesday, 28 January 2004 02:48 (twenty-two years ago)

Ghirardelli is OK, but it's omnipresence has kinda irked me somewhat. It was always "Ghirardelli wins no contest!" with no competition.

UNTIL...

http://www.scharffenberger.com/assets/images/SlatBox.jpg

ALL HAIL SCHARFFENBERGER!

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Wednesday, 28 January 2004 03:16 (twenty-two years ago)

Mm, that's right, I've had some of this goodness and mighty tasty it is.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 28 January 2004 03:17 (twenty-two years ago)

*Puzzled*

*Googles 'Dagoba "star wars'"*

Okay now I get it.

― Paul in Santa Cruz (Paul in Santa Cruz), Wednesday, 28 January 2004 03:40 (twenty-two years ago)

When I was in a wine-tasting room in Santa Cruz a few months ago, I met Pete Slosberg (creator of Pete's Wicked Ale/early microbrew pioneer) and he had started a new business after selling off the beer brand:

Cocoa Pete's Chocolate Adventures

The samples he gave me were really good.

― gygax! (gygax!), Wednesday, 28 January 2004 15:20 (twenty-two years ago)

i still enjoy a hershey's with almonds. they are yummy. so are rolos and reeses cups. mmmmm.

― colette (a2lette), Wednesday, 28 January 2004 15:21 (twenty-two years ago)

I was asked to leave the Ghiradelli chocolate store/factory in San Francisco when i was younger for sticking my hand in the vat of chocolate. I was tiny enough to get my arm by the plexi-glass guard.

― El Spinktor (El Spinktor), Wednesday, 28 January 2004 15:22 (twenty-two years ago)

Did the Oompa-Loompas then bundle you off into the garbage chute?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 28 January 2004 15:58 (twenty-two years ago)

They were replaced by union workers at the time. So, no.

But I angered one of the bay-area gods and the earthquake of '89 occured a couple days later. We moved to Virginia shortly after.

― El Spinktor (El Spinktor), Wednesday, 28 January 2004 16:03 (twenty-two years ago)

Are there any places in America where cocoa grows though? Is American chocolate really American, or just prepared in America?

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 28 January 2004 16:07 (twenty-two years ago)

They were replaced by union workers at the time. So, no.

Not even a song, how sad. But yes, your seismic evil deserved your banishment.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 28 January 2004 16:12 (twenty-two years ago)

NZA, that Hawaiian chocolate is grown in Hawaii.

― oops (Oops), Wednesday, 28 January 2004 17:02 (twenty-two years ago)

See's?

― ModJ (ModJ), Wednesday, 28 January 2004 17:08 (twenty-two years ago)

Maybe so, Ned. But it was great while it lasted.

― El Spinktor (El Spinktor), Wednesday, 28 January 2004 19:14 (twenty-two years ago)

"Is American chocolate really American?"

Hey, America begins at the arctic circle and ends at Patagonia... cocoa grows somewhere in there.

― andy, Wednesday, 28 January 2004 19:21 (twenty-two years ago)

What is the worst chocolate? Or least favorite? Because some american chocolate is better than others, of course.

Im not too big on Hersheys.

Is Dove made in the US?

― El Spinktor (El Spinktor), Wednesday, 28 January 2004 19:25 (twenty-two years ago)

PALMERS

― teeny (teeny), Wednesday, 28 January 2004 20:27 (twenty-two years ago)

See's is so fucking fantastic I think it beats Godivas hands down.

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Wednesday, 28 January 2004 22:32 (twenty-two years ago)

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