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What's your favorite chocolate?
Posted by jjloch • 7/22/09 • Subscribe to this Discussion [RSS] • Report This Topic
Topics: Candy, Chocolate
I favor Nestles.
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I like Twix, but from time to time I splurge on Godiva dark with raspberry filling.-
Stella, that sounds scrumptious!!!
Cheers! JJ
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Toblerone! -
Hershey's =). I love their milk chocolate and dark chocolate =) -
I am with still--as far as the chocolate you can get (easily and cheaply) in the U.S., I go for Toblerone.
However, I really love fine Belgian chocolate and whenever I am in Europe, I buy a huge stash to last me in the U.S.
I actually don't eat very much chocolate but I eat a little of it almost every day. I would say that I eat less than an ounce of chocolate per day--usually just a little bit as a 'fix.'
I really do adore chocolate! -
I've never liked American chocolate - sorry folks! -
The best chocolate I ever tasted came from Belgium, it's a type called "Zeevruchten" - which looks like seashells and is filled with a creamy chocolate filling. A picture:
However, be warned - some places produce these on an industrial scale. Wrong: get it from a small producer; the best one of these I ever had was in Ghent.
For more standard chocolate, there's a place called Montezuma's in my town, which is excellent.-
I was about to say, those look an awful like the Guylian chocolates from Walgreens. Thank you for the explanation.
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Godiva. Specifically, open oyster shells.
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- What's your favorite chocolate?
My husband and I have drawn way back from eating chocolate. We no longer have favorites, as we now know the truth about cocoa harvesting and child slave labor. Did you know the following?
"There may be a hidden ingredient in the chocolate cake you baked, the candy bars your children sold for their school fund-raiser or that fudge ripple ice cream cone you enjoyed on Saturday afternoon.
Slave labor.
Forty-three percent of the world's cocoa beans, the raw material in chocolate, come from small, scattered farms in this poor West African country. And on some of the farms, the hot, hard work of clearing the fields and harvesting the fruit is done by boys who were sold or tricked into slavery."
HighBeam search results link tinyurl.com/nlv4cu
"In 2006, Côte d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast) was the world's largest producer and exporter of cocoa, supplying 46% of the world cocoa production. West Africa, collectively supplies nearly 80% of the world's cocoa. Large chocolate producers such as Cadbury, Hershey's, and Nestle buy cocoa at commodities exchanges where Ivorian cocoa is mixed with other cocoa, as reported in a study by Oxfam. ...
According to the International Labour Organisation, 30% of children under age 15 in sub-Saharan Africa engage in child labor, mostly in agricultural activities including cocoa farming. Of the 200,000 children working in the Ivory Coast cocoa industry, the ILO claims - a maximum of 6% (12,000 children) may be victims of human trafficking or slavery." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Children_in_cocoa_production
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It's rather unfortunate, but most of the luxuries we enjoy come from the blood and sweat of underage workers. Clothing is affordable because it is made by people who are paid far less than minimum wage.
On a lighter note, I love Toblerone and any 75%-90% chocolate. -
- There's nothing "light" about child slave labor. There's nothing praiseworthy in the mindset that doesn't care about this form of child abuse either. Obviously, it's the demand in first world countries and the opportunism of corporations like Cadbury, Hershey's, and Nestle, etc. who serve their shareholder's best interest and are fueling this form of child abuse.
We have made the decision to purchase only "ethical chocolate," and we have joined the pressure campaign being applied to the corporations that are currently purchasing the products of child slave labor. Maybe others will examine the and their conscience and make the same choice too.
Google search results "ethical chocolate" tinyurl.com/kn5xav -
I see where you are coming from and fully understand the situation. With that same logic, we might all go around without clothing. The clear alternative would be to grow our own cotton, pick it, process it and then go on to fashion them into designs we like.
There is no way to really determine which chocolate is "ethical" unless you go around inspecting each processing center. -
- There is no way to really determine which chocolate is "ethical" unless you go around inspecting each processing center.
My husband and I do not choose develop that kind of mindset. If we did we would be inclined to find a cop-out for purchasing countless unnecessary and unethically produced items.
Instead we try to do the best we can to be informed, mindful and to act in any way we can to be more compassionate and conscientious about where and on what we choose to spend our meager funds.
I guess you didn't click the link I provided above: Green & Black’s, Malagasy, Divine, Booja Booja, Chocolala, Duchy Originals, Organica, Blakes, Traidcraft. (From: www.seventypercent.com/chocop/)
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Of the brands you note, Green & Blacks is the only one I have seen here in South Africa. I have tried it and as chocolate goes, it is awful.
Better to eat no chocolate at all than to eat bad chocolate. -
- Agreed. Beloved and I have discovered a whole array of popular consumer goods that we have no difficulty at all doing without. Also we are fully aware that coffee, chocolate, coke, pepsi and zillions of other "food products" are sacred cows. There are legions who are outstanding when it comes to protecting their sacred cows. In fact, they frequently refer to the same as guilty pleasures. When the rationalizers get cranked up we simply change the subject or choose to leave and converse with others instead.
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i love(d) Nestle's too but after reading this, I have a bad taste in my mouth.
Every time a child is abused and we do nothing we are taking part in the abuse. We cannot unknow.
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Kisses, twix, Carlos V (Mexican), Ghirardelli dark chocolate, hmmmm, Im hungry now! -
Okay, I'm plebeian. Chocolate coconut macaroons and/or Peter Paul's almond joy bars. -
cloud 9 -
Oh, Cadbury Flake, Lindt truffles...
White chocolate or very dark chocolate are my faves. Glorious extremes! -
Lindt balls, nothing beats them - they're the chocolate equivalent of crack as far as addiction goes.-
Oh, yeah...
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Better you be addicted to chocolate..There is this place where I live called The French Broad Chocolate Lounge...this gal gets the most exotic, premium & unique chocolate to make here treats...This place gets lines out the door..Oh yea..it is ridiculously addicting. The lindt truffles are darn good. -
We used to have a resturant/cafe here Called "Death by chocolate" where the entire menu was chocolate
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I'm liking all of this.
It makes me happy just knowing it's out there.
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Oh yea...anything with the name Death By Chocolate..you can count me in on that.
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Unfortunately its no longer - the novelty eventually wore out, people stopped going which resulted in the raising of prices to cover the bills so the true fans were put off and then eventually no one ended up going. So it had to close its doors.
There are still chocolate cafes around here, but nothing that compares to what DBC served on their menu. -
Bummer...Maybe Sam needs to have one of those...could be THE place for blog gatherings, book & poetry readings, book review, small Indy movie showings..killer chocolate and microbrews..Maybe even a poker night.. What do you think?
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Sounds like a plan - I am engaged to a qualified chef after all. But can you all afford the plane ticket?
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Soon as you finish your book and make your millions...you will buy up a nice plot of land & parcel it off to us for a good discount..then we will live close by..Hell, who wouldn't want to live in NZ..It has got to be one of the most beautiful places on the planet.
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Haha yeah and if Im lucky they'll even use my plot of land for the movie adaptation of my story.
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M&M's -
anything dark -
Good quality milk chocolate please.
I am really a salt person though!
Popcorn before chocolate except for once a month! -
Chocolate fudge with walnuts. I can eat a huge block of fudge and then zone out the whole day on a sugar high. -
The cadbury desserts range is also pretty good - banoffee, creme brule, tiramisu, berry panacotta, chocolate brownie, lemon cheesecake.
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I've sworn off chocolate this year - trying to lose weight - but, when I go back to eating chocolate, I'll be diving into Maltesers!
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Its a catch 22 really because chocolate has its health benefits also, especially dark chocolate.
Fear not though, I hear that there is a swiss chocolate due out that is 90% less calories than the usual chocolate and yet still has managed to keep the same taste -
Ooooooh, I'll believe it when I see it ... errrr, taste it.
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You're a better man than I am. I still found myself taking down 2 Klondike bars back to back a few days ago. I atoned for my mistake by hitting the gym
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I don't eat a lot of chocolate but my Aunt's homemade fudge and peanut butter eggs are excellent!! That and chocolate covered strawberries from the local chocolate shop
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