My chocolate tastes are pretty simple. I always went with a Nestle's Crisp or plain Hershey bar. It I ate a Twix or Fast Break it wasn't really for the chocolate. Dark chocolate is okay, but anything above 70% is too bitter. Have to stay away from the sugar too though so I don't eat it often anymore.
Life without chocolate
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I like milk chocolate and caramel, dark chocolate, or something with peanut butter. Or white chocolate. Really, it's all good and clearly a necessary part of every day.
Cadbury's Dairy Milk and Cadbury's Bournville (or Premium Dark as it's called here in Canada) are my absolute favourites, but I'm off chocolate now too - since I can't just eat one square as a treat, I'm having to stop eating it all together as part of my healthy (well, slightly healthier anyway 
) eating plan.
It's been surprisingly easy for me so far - although I had an open bag of mini eggs left over from little miss trampledamage's easter treats and after eating half a bag of those and feeling decidedly ill I'm convinced again that I can't just have a little for a treat
K'Ehleyr - I've done egg hunts for the kids these past two years, and because the weather was so nice this year I hid the eggs outside. I have to buy plastic eggs to put treats in because young master trampledamage doesn't like chocolate - he gets Tim-Bits instead (donut holes) - nothing as fancy as yours though, just eggs hidden in the garden, go fetch!
) eating plan.It's been surprisingly easy for me so far - although I had an open bag of mini eggs left over from little miss trampledamage's easter treats and after eating half a bag of those and feeling decidedly ill I'm convinced again that I can't just have a little for a treat
K'Ehleyr - I've done egg hunts for the kids these past two years, and because the weather was so nice this year I hid the eggs outside. I have to buy plastic eggs to put treats in because young master trampledamage doesn't like chocolate - he gets Tim-Bits instead (donut holes) - nothing as fancy as yours though, just eggs hidden in the garden, go fetch!
If i couldn't have chocolate, i'd be eating my second favorite food, bacon.
I've heard of chocolate-covered bacon, if you're interested. A friend of mine tried it once and took a picture before doing so. It didn't look very appetizing, though...
Oh I definitely want to try it. It looks fantastic!
Personally, I thought it looked kinda like dog turds.
That just makes it gourmet... they charge more for it that way.Personally, I thought it looked kinda like dog turds.
I dare not buy it more than once per year: Breyer's Triple Chocolate Ice Cream... chocolate ice cream, chocolate swirls and chocolate chips. DEATH.BY.CHOCOLATE.
You know, this reminds me of a funny thing that happened to me once. My friends and I went to the store to pick up some things for a party. One of my friends handed me a $20 and asked me to buy booze for him since his ID was all cracked and falling apart. It was fine with me. I got some ice cream for myself, specifically, Stephen Colbert's AmeriCone Dream, and so proceeded to the check out line. I had a bottle of Jack Daniel's in one hand, and ice cream in the other. I turned to my friends and said, "I think someone broke up with me."
I used to eat lots of chocolate (sometimes a big 300g bar in one go), but I somewhat lost my appetite for it. I don't avoid chocolate now, but I don't crave it anymore. My favourite is white chocolate and in general I prefer chocolaty chocolate and not chocolate with some random filling. When I want to eat chocolate I don't want to eat strawberry mousse instead.
White chocolate is an abomination unto the Lord.
The Lord wouldn't have made it so tasty if it's an abomination. 
It's the Devil's work! White chocolate is, ironically, the dark side.
Praise Satan then!
I've had 85% before, but it's a bit too bitter for my tastes. I've tried 99% too, but it was like licking carbon powder.
I got a %90 bar in a shop in Paris; basically inedible. I thought it could work for cooking, but I cannot see how you can sell anything higher than %85 as a confection - you might as well eat tree bark.
I think they taste more like chocolate-flavoured wax myself.
I did a fun experiment at the office with a free Hershey bar I got from Americansoda.co.uk with a case of root beer and left it on the boss' desk for anyone to take. I think it sat there for over a month before I ate it myself - not because I like it (only Hershey's bar I can eat is the 5th Avenue Bar, which is a poor imitation of Clark or Butterfinger), but because I couldn't just throw it away.
The milk they add to that chocolate has allegedly been lipolysed to increased shelf life of the chocolate.
This process works by creating butyric acid, which is the exact same chemical that gives puke it's smell, and is also a major chemical component in the scent of faeces, and cheese.
