Could be a brand or just a type of chocolate
Anything from Aldi. Here in the US they put butyric acid in the chocolate. It’s partially because it’s what people associated with chocolate because if early Hersey production and partially because it increases the shelf life. It’s also the acid you find in rancid butter and vomit. European chocolate doesn’t do this and so you get a smoother chocolate without the gross bite.
Before living near an Aldi I could only afford to get good chocolate on a rare occasion but even the junk Easter egg chocolates at Aldi are amazing and affordable! So now I can actually say I like chocolate!
That Aldi chocolate can’t be beat!
Have you tried their little burnt caramel chocolate bars by the check out? The smokiness in the caramel with that smooth chocolate finish is to die for!
As a Swiss person who likes chocolate, that sounds disgusting 😱
It’s so much worse than it sounds. On top of that, most Americans are born into this and find well made European chocolate too smooth and decadent which spurs the idea that it has to be exorbitantly expensive.
I can literally buy the cheapest stuff in my grocerie store here and it still tastes somewhat decent… Shouldn’t have to be expensive. Making decent chocolate isn’t exactly rocket science. But hey we are talking about the US where fresh bread apparently still is kind of rare and most people eat Wonder Bread (why it’s even called bread is beyond me though…)
Lol it’s a wonder it’s considered bread
Anything that’s at least 50% cocoa.
The best chocolate you’ll ever have: https://www.castronovochocolate.com/
She travels down to the communities that harvest the cacao and sources directly from them, then she hand makes the chocolate in her shop. Internationally award winning. So good.
Nothing from Hershey’s, Nestle, or Mars, that’s for sure. Shits so waxy and bland. At least as far as chocolate goes. I don’t mind their candy bars so much, but I couldn’t tell you when the last time I had candy was.
Ethically sourced and not too sugary. I make sure to grab a selection of Tony’s Chocolonely bars whenever I’m in the Netherlands. It’s second to none.
Belgian chocolate is of course also great. I love Galler, it’s good but not overly pretentious/expensive.
Dark chocolate in small doses; if I want to go wild a milk chocolate with something salty (sea salt, salty roasted almonds, salty caramel, freaking corn flakes for that matter) is always a treat.
Tony’s and toblerone are probably my favorites rn, i love how creamy they are
Toblerone
Dark chocolate here in the US. Also like unsweetened chocolate in savory things like chili.
The fruit and nut Cadbury in England.
Mousse au chocolate.
I know the question didn’t ask for it, but I don’t like chocolate, ha!
But I love two specific types; salted dark chocolate or chilli dark chocolate. Especially with a glass of tempranillo. Brand don’t really matter, but generally the bigger brands just don’t do dark chocolate well and put way too much sugar in. I don’t have a sweet tooth and all other chocolates—including other dark chocolate—I don’t really care for.
Here here! I also am not a big fan of chocolate, but dark chocolate, with chilli! Ooh la la.
Ooh yeah, same opinoins here. I’ve never tried chilli dark chocolate though - I’ll have to be on the lookout for that.
I thought I liked dark chocolate then all the studies came out about certain brands having lead. After checking the brand I guess I just liked lead.
60% cocoa by Lidl’s home brand J.D.Gross is the best chocolate I ever had.
The stuff from when I was a kid. Chocolate at some point changed. Its still good but not as good. Could be in my head or maybe its like the banana thing,
Depending on where you live, it probably has changed. Especially if you’re in the US.
Basically, chocolate has been getting a lot more expensive. Rather than raise prices, a lot of companies have figured that consumers are more sensitive to changes in price rather than changes in quality or size.
A lot of American brands seem to be reducing the amount of actual chocolate in their “chocolate(y)s”, and reducing the size. There’s only so much they can reduce the size before people notice, so most of their cost savings comes from reducing the amount of chocolate.
Try some European chocolate if you ever miss the good stuff. Imported, not just European brands.
A lot of chocolate in the US can’t legally be called chocolate in Canada. A lot of chocolate in Canada can’t legally be called chocolate in the UK. And a lot of chocolate in the UK can’t be called chocolate in some continental European countries (though I don’t know how the scale continues from there, lol).
A lot of brands have stopped even using the word “chocolate” to describe their product. Anything that has a “chocolatey coating” does not actually have real chocolate.
we need that labeling. chocolate like food product.
Apple brand chocolate. Buckle berry chocolate. I sometimes suspect bots troll here, asking questions like this in order to blindly consume data, & when I suspect it, I give them foil to chew on, like this response. Pennzoil motor oil chocolate. Xbox white chocolate Tesla Brand Free Speech Chocolate with the crunchy butthole center. There, does that answer your question?
Tony Chocolonely is fucking amazing, but you can break your teeth trying to bite its weirdly shaped pieces of.
Seconded. Good stuff that A) you can actually find without heading to some weird chocolate boutique and B) you can feel marginally better about buying because they really try to make sure their supply chain is as fair as possible.
They are making a positive impact but not quite well enough to be recognized on the Slave Free Chocolate website.
Excellent callout, thank you!
I don’t think I’ve ever seen these in Canada, I’ll have to try them when I go elsewhere.
