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Despite my current 'buy as little as possible' phase, one consumer good is just tooooo seductive to pass up. Kinder Bueno, a Swiss chocolate bar. It's getting scary. I'm on at least three a day, and I get cranky without one: think Gene Wilder and his 'blue blanket' in "The Producers".

Anyway: what's your favourite chocolate bar and why? Do you go through phases of absolute uncompromising lust for just one in particular (for me, before the Kinder phase it was Galaxy Caramel all the way - god I love them) or are you altogether more in control of your confectionary? Maybe you hate chocolate full stop?

― Will, Tuesday, 13 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

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― Will, Tuesday, 13 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

It's even getting to the point where I love these bars more than Helen Baxendale. And I *love* Helen Baxendale.

― Will, Tuesday, 13 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Will, you mentioned the B word, she's lovely and that but should only be referred to as, her out of cold feet!

at the moment it's snickers crunchers for me, bloody lovely, like a toffee crisp with peanuts, nice. Also Galaxy Liaison, very nice, like the caramel but with truffle filling, get in!

― chris, Tuesday, 13 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Knock it off with Helen Baxendale. Your devotion may end up with you buying Baxendale records and we all know where that leads. (just ask Ricky T)

I'm very rarely tempted my confectionary and Clare Denis has pretty much turned me off of Chocolat(e - ahem) but have been munching Reeses Pieces like mad for the last week. You need to be a strong man towork in my office, with its store cupboard of chocolate. There are well over 1000 bars of differing hues in here....Must resist.

― Pete, Tuesday, 13 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Will, I share your love. I first discovered Buenos in Italy and was delighted when, a couple of months after my return, Woolies started selling them. And now they're everywhere! Kinder are the makers of great chocolate. The classic Surprise is a heaven-sent stand-in for a forgotten birthday present. The Cereali, still not available over here, is a WONDER, possibly better than the Bueno and as for the Duplo, with its little hazlenut treasure.... Mmmmmmmm. You bastard, you're making me hungry.

― Madchen, Tuesday, 13 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Is the Duplo just a kids version of the Kinder Lego?

― Pete, Tuesday, 13 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I have never bought a record by That Band and I resent the implication that I might have.

― RickyT, Tuesday, 13 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Remind me what you're doing on new year's eve, boyofbadgers?

― Mark C, Tuesday, 13 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Will somebody please explain why it took them so damn long to invent the Kit Kat Chunky. I need answers.

― Graham, Tuesday, 13 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Just be glad its here now, Graham. Btw, they're now doing 2 Dime bars for the price of one... I might dabble.

― Will, Tuesday, 13 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

New Year's Eve is going to be a great laugh, believe me! :)

If only you knew what conversation I ran away from on Saturday, Mr T...

― Paul Strange, Tuesday, 13 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Mmmmm. Dime Bars, the indie chocolate.

― Madchen, Tuesday, 13 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

What makes Dime bars indie, Madchen?

― Will, Tuesday, 13 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Not owned by Nestlé, Mars or Cadbury's (the last time I looked)

― Nick, Tuesday, 13 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I'm not sure what I'll be doing on New Year's Eve Mr Casarotto, but it will certainly not involve That Band.

― RickyT, Tuesday, 13 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Paul, please tell me it had nothing to do with Bis.

― RickyT, Tuesday, 13 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Oh yeah! They're owned by Marabou, aren't they? They also sold these big tubes of Rolo-shaped individual chocolates, as well, I think! They were very expensive but I went through a phase of them, often neglecting school dinners for that very reason. They were lu-u--u-u--u-u-u-sh.

― Will, Tuesday, 13 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I'm with you on the Kinder Buenos. I love them. I used to buy them by the dozen when I was lucky enough to find a shop that sold them here. There used to be a few places with them about 6 or 8 years ago but now they are no-where.

I think I would stop being vegan if I could find a Kinder Bueno.

― toraneko, Tuesday, 13 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Oh god! It was even worse than BIS!

― RickyT, Tuesday, 13 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Paul, please not Fosca as well?!?!?!?

― chris, Tuesday, 13 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

N-n-n-not.... SPEARMINT?!

― Sarah, Tuesday, 13 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

mmmm spearmint

― Alan Trewartha, Tuesday, 13 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Spearmint Kitkat Chunky? Now yer talking.

― Will, Tuesday, 13 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

After years of addiction I've more or less given up chocolate, except the posh stuff occasionally (special mention to Green and Black's Maya Gold). I had a moment of epiphany in my local Jackson's (= official armpit of the universe), standing there staring at the shelves, my life threatening to reduce itself to the choice between a Galaxy Caramel or a Mars bar (Galaxy won two times out of three), and it all got too much. Strangest thing is I don't miss it (yet?).

― Ellie, Tuesday, 13 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I am going to make it my personal ambition to track down a Bueno and send it to Toraneko as part of my one-man crusade to destroy the evil that is veganism...

p.s. do vegan mothers refuse to breast-feed their children?

― Mark C, Tuesday, 13 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

p.s. the above is grudging, good natured and not in the slightest intended to be a true and honest representation of my feelings towards veganism.

― Mark C, Tuesday, 13 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Skilful avoidance of Grocottian wrath there, Mark.

― Will, Tuesday, 13 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Ooooh, Green and Blacks = very nice indeed. The plain stuff used to have a very marked effect on my libido.

― RickyT, Tuesday, 13 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

nestle milk and cookies - cos it tastes good and it rips off the 3rd world.

― Geoff, Tuesday, 13 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I have always liked mars chocolate better than cadburys. I like Ripple...I used to like Galaxy Caramel very much, but I think my body has developed a resistence to it.

― james, Tuesday, 13 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Mmmmm Kinder Bueno. Those new Snickers are ace, and mmmm peanut butter Lion bars. I went about six months without chocolate this year, and have been on a wee binge lately.

― rosemary, Tuesday, 13 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Gah, it's more a question of what chocolate don't I love? Kit Kat is an old standby, but really I love them all except perhaps 3 Mustkeers. And even then I would probably eat it if it were the only chocolate around.

― Nicole, Tuesday, 13 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Hey Mark, I know you probably weren't serious *but* - why would vegan mothers refuse to breastfeed their babies when their breast milk is produced without the exploitation of non-human animals?

Anyway, veganism is a wank as a total approach to life. A vegan diet on the other hand is a wonderful thing. Actually, today I've eaten egg and veal so I'm not all that good a vegan really. So far in the last two months I've had:
2 chicken burgers, 1 veal schnitzel, some egg in fried rice twice, a crumble of rogue fetta, chocolate with dairy in it and some Arnott's biscuits. I don't consider than any worse than a non-smoker having a few social cigarettes though. I still feel like a vegan i.e. I'm still difficult and inflexible.

― toraneko, Tuesday, 13 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

kinder bueno? I have never tried it and I feel adeep sense of loss. though right now I think I need chocolate melded with alcohol. After all I did have a coffee break magnum so it is time to crack into the alcohol once more. I am fairly indiscriminate about the chocolate I lust after, but I have a reputation for eating small amounts of chocolate at a time. i am searching for my perfect bar I guess

― Menelaus Darcy, Tuesday, 13 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Chocolate good! Metallica bad! Or something. Ghirardelli chocolate sundaes = reasons to go on living.

― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 13 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I can't wait for the re-introduction of Toffee Christmas come December.

― Jonnie, Tuesday, 13 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

PUDS!! All chocolate w.snow on the writing = bettah than ditto w/o

― mark s, Tuesday, 13 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

have purposely been avoiding this thread as it's made me want to rush off to Sainsbury's and buy loads of GREEN AND BLACKS. as i knew it would. but anyway next time i see you Mark C i'm gonna stomp you with my kick ass vegan boots. be afraid :)

also toraneko SHAME for the veal!!!!! McChickun i could forgive maybe but VEAL!?!? i'm now going to buy gin. wish me luck!

― katie, Tuesday, 13 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Toraneko - my comment was completely tongue in cheek and it was when I realised the slightly nasty tone in which it could have been read I posted my sort-of apology. Your point is totally right and I'm a bit ashamed.

― Mark C, Tuesday, 13 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I have a strange sensitivity to chocolate. If the bar or pastille or whatever is of high quality or high cocoa content, I sneeze after eating it. If not, I won't.

― suzy, Tuesday, 13 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I love chocolate so much that I can't have a favorite. I particularly like it in fudgy brownies, though. About once a week I go on a rampage throughout the entire house trying to find at least a little piece of chocolate because...because...well, I have to. Eek.

― Maria, Tuesday, 13 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Mmmmm...liquer filled chocolates are soooooo good. Grand Marnier in dark chocolate... Laura Secords... arghaghhhhh... *faints into puddle of own drool*

― Kim, Tuesday, 13 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I am exact opposite. Idea of chocolate being tainted by liqueur or any other form of booze is very awful. ALso fruit + booze = wrong. But chocolate plus fruit might be ok under some circumstances.

― Ellie, Tuesday, 13 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I made brownies. They are dark and wet and fudgy and fall apart easily. BEAUTIFUL. I will hand them around tomorrow.

― Maria, Tuesday, 13 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

A kitkat chunky and a coffee served in a cooky glass please.

― rainy, Tuesday, 13 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

If only they'd make a Helen Baxendale bar...........

― Allen, Thursday, 15 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

five years pass...

TS: milk chocolate vs dark chocolate? I've been very anti milk-chocolate lately, maybe because it's always floating around the office and it just seems so cheap and oversweet and bleech. And when I get good dark chocolate, it's heaven. So anyway, I was just handed a piece of Hershey's Cacao Reserve, "Premium Milk Chocolate," and though, hmm... has potential. Turns out, it does not. It's still crappy. It's like having the finest cup of coffee in the world, then dumping a whole shitload of sugar and cream into it. What's the point?

Any other chocolate snobs out there?

― kenan, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 18:00 (nineteen years ago)

right here.

me & the boss, we totally hate it when people bring in sweets because they are usually so so gross. he bought a hershey's cacao reserve for us to try -- it was so disappointing. seemingly, most people like milk chocolate.

the higher the percentage of cacao, the better, IMO.

― Ai Lien, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 18:14 (nineteen years ago)

i will only eat milk chocolate if it's expensive and has rum, raisins and hazelnuts in it damn

ok that is a lie. i will eat milk chocolate if someone gives it to me.
but i only buy dark chocolate when i do buy chocolate.

― rrrobyn, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 18:23 (nineteen years ago)

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Excellence Noirissime 99% is a unique chocolate that reveals all the strength and richness of cocoa beans. To fully appreciate all its flavor, we recommend that you progressively develop your palate through our range of high cocoa content chocolate bars, starting with Excellence 70% cocoa, then 85%, and finally 99% cocoa. To best experience Excellence 99% cocoa, taste a small piece and let it melt in your mouth. You can accompany your tasting with a coffee to help bring out the bouquet of cocoa aromas.

― Abbott, Friday, 22 August 2008 22:41 (seventeen years ago)

lol lindt 3-step chocolate-addiction strategy

― rrrobyn, Friday, 22 August 2008 22:59 (seventeen years ago)

Can you imagine a world where you can ONLY love 99% cacao bcz you've been suckered in & spoiled by Lindt, and when you can't find it at the store you have to eat a bar of baker's chocolate?

― Abbott, Friday, 22 August 2008 23:01 (seventeen years ago)

or funnel straight cocoa powder into your mouth!

― rrrobyn, Friday, 22 August 2008 23:03 (seventeen years ago)

lindt will make monsters out of us all

― rrrobyn, Friday, 22 August 2008 23:04 (seventeen years ago)

three months pass...

I am keen to eat these.
http://www.damianallsop.co.uk/images/ganache.jpg
Water based choccies. Can they really be as good as they say?
I take a small bite. At first I am not sure what to think. It doesn't taste like chocolate. It tastes like, well, nothing I've ever tasted before. At first a burst of passion fruit passes across my tongue.

'Passion fruit!' Allsop says excitedly. 'Can you taste it?' But just as I've picked up on the flavour, suddenly it's as if I've taken a gulp of coffee.

'It's coffee!' I say in amazement. 'It's not passion fruit any more. It's coffee!' Then I taste chocolate and, finally, something more buttery. I am absolutely flabbergasted.

― Holden McGroin (Ned Trifle II), Monday, 24 November 2008 08:24 (seventeen years ago)

three months pass...

convince me not to have any right now!

i can't believe i still haven't tried Kinder

yesterday i had some of those mini-cadbury eggs, the crunchy ones? omg

― Surmounter, Monday, 16 March 2009 18:19 (seventeen years ago)

i'm about to break this out and scarf it. it's milk choc, i think

― Surmounter, Monday, 16 March 2009 18:20 (seventeen years ago)

This was an ok movie, but not as good as Ong-Bak.

― Thrills as Cheap as Gas (Oilyrags), Monday, 16 March 2009 18:24 (seventeen years ago)

five months pass...

guys, this:

http://www.blisstree.com/chocolatebytes/files/2008/06/exce_usa_chili.jpg

guys

― god bless this -ation (Abbott), Friday, 4 September 2009 04:10 (sixteen years ago)

They're on sale for $1 this week at the local grocery too and I am gonna have to not burn myself out on them.

― god bless this -ation (Abbott), Friday, 4 September 2009 04:11 (sixteen years ago)

i once sneaked into the pantry when mum was temporarily out of the picture and hastily shoved a tablespoon of baking cocoa powder into my mouth and got a pretty nasty fright. shit does not taste like chocolate at all, fyi.

― where we turn sweet dreams into remarkable realities (just1n3), Friday, 4 September 2009 04:37 (sixteen years ago)

three weeks pass...

Help me Obi Wan Kenobi, you're my only hope.

I have the following:

100 grams very good dark chocolate
150 mils double cream
2 eggs

Plus as much of the following as I want, pretty much;

sugar (muscovado or unrefined golden cane)
flour
butter

What should I make?

― Sickamous (Scik Mouthy), Friday, 25 September 2009 12:24 (sixteen years ago)

COME ON ILX COOKS.

― Sickamous (Scik Mouthy), Friday, 25 September 2009 12:47 (sixteen years ago)

2 fried eggs & a bar of chocolate.

― cozwn, Friday, 25 September 2009 12:49 (sixteen years ago)

would suggest you need a good quality cocoa powder to kick off, SM. don't want to waste good chocolate on anything but icing/filling imo.

― What are the benefits of dating a younger guy, better erections? (darraghmac), Friday, 25 September 2009 12:52 (sixteen years ago)

I have some good quality cocoa powder too actually, aye.

― Sickamous (Scik Mouthy), Friday, 25 September 2009 12:58 (sixteen years ago)

Got any brie?

― Not the real Village People, Friday, 25 September 2009 13:13 (sixteen years ago)

No. I could get some if needed. Intrigued by that idea.

― Sickamous (Scik Mouthy), Friday, 25 September 2009 13:21 (sixteen years ago)

make a plain sponge cake & then cover it with super-rich ganache?

― tlönic irrigation (c sharp major), Friday, 25 September 2009 13:23 (sixteen years ago)

you don't even need 50ml of cream to make ganache with 100g of chocolate though. There's this way of making cake where you beat milk in at the end, which results in a softer sponge: you could try doing that only with the rest of the cream?

― tlönic irrigation (c sharp major), Friday, 25 September 2009 13:25 (sixteen years ago)

or make a shortcrust pastry w/ the butter and flour and then chocolate mousse to fill.

― tlönic irrigation (c sharp major), Friday, 25 September 2009 13:27 (sixteen years ago)

melt some chocolate with a little of your hard alcohol of choice and freeze it.

in the meantime, make a nice rich chocolate pastry with the cocoa powder etc. divide into bun moulds, push the frozen choccubes well down into them and give them 20 mins in the oven.

― What are the benefits of dating a younger guy, better erections? (darraghmac), Friday, 25 September 2009 14:38 (sixteen years ago)

serve with the cream

gf made something like this lately and it was goood, but the specifics escape me. my speciality is apple pies or banoffee

― What are the benefits of dating a younger guy, better erections? (darraghmac), Friday, 25 September 2009 14:39 (sixteen years ago)

What is the lowest percentage you can eat that is still dark chocolate? I got a 70% from Whole Foods and it is a bit much for me, but it could be that I'm just not used to it.

― Virginia Plain, Friday, 25 September 2009 14:42 (sixteen years ago)

it takes a bit of getting used to, alright. found 70% strange at first too, but there are still all manners of blends within that figure in terms of sweetness etc.

bournville is a nice easy compromise, i think.

― What are the benefits of dating a younger guy, better erections? (darraghmac), Friday, 25 September 2009 14:44 (sixteen years ago)

nine months pass...

spicy chocolate is pretty good

― like a ◴ ◷ ◶ (dyao), Thursday, 8 July 2010 16:10 (fifteen years ago)

t think there must be over ten chocolate shops in my street. insane, i know

― Nathalie (stevienixed), Thursday, 8 July 2010 17:51 (fifteen years ago)

four months pass...

Theo Organic Fair Trade Cherry & Almond Dark Chocolate 70% cacao - tasting notes - somewhat grainy consistency. hints of poop and ash. may contain cherry pits.

http://www.benefityourlifestore.com/images/Theo%20Cherry%20Almond.jpg

― scott seward, Tuesday, 23 November 2010 19:47 (fifteen years ago)

one year passes...

I love chocolate--way, way too much. So after hearing this story on the news this morning, I bought a big Lindt chocolate bar on the way home, 99% dark, guilt-free.

http://www.thesundaily.my/news/396188

Ate three squares and threw the rest away. Just horrid.

― clemenza, Friday, 1 June 2012 23:12 (thirteen years ago)

aw you shouldn't have thrown it away! melt it with some coconut cream, maple syrup, vanilla essence and peanut butter - makes a delicious chocolate sauce.

― just1n3, Saturday, 2 June 2012 02:00 (thirteen years ago)

one year passes...

I have always loved the ant but NO MORE

http://www.aeonmagazine.com/nature-and-cosmos/what-can-ants-teach-us-about-agriculture/

― Ned Raggett, Friday, 2 August 2013 02:17 (twelve years ago)

one year passes...

chocolate with sea salt

― no love deb weep (nakhchivan), Tuesday, 17 February 2015 19:53 (eleven years ago)

yeah I had that lately it was great

sea salt and not-too-sweet caramel also great

― local eire man (darraghmac), Tuesday, 17 February 2015 19:56 (eleven years ago)

Green & Blacks Ginger - good sized pieces of crystalised ginger, no stringy fibrous bits.

― 0xFE Shades of Grey (snoball), Tuesday, 17 February 2015 20:25 (eleven years ago)

the sea salt one is theirs too, half a dozen bars for £1 each, i had it once ages ago but wouldn't generally buy it, the ginger one is their best

it's alright but because the salt is in large flakes, it isn't distributed evenly so some squares have only the faintest amount while others are like a chocolate version of parmesan

― no love deb weep (nakhchivan), Tuesday, 17 February 2015 20:36 (eleven years ago)

have u tried m&s chocolate with parmesan

― local eire man (darraghmac), Tuesday, 17 February 2015 20:45 (eleven years ago)

surely you jest

― no love deb weep (nakhchivan), Tuesday, 17 February 2015 20:50 (eleven years ago)

http://data1.whicdn.com/images/130224343/large.jpg

― contenderizer, Tuesday, 17 February 2015 21:06 (eleven years ago)

There's Marmite chocolate (which I felt was disappointing, the chocolate not being nearly dark enough and the Marmite not strong enough), so I can believe that there's parmesan chocolate.

― 0xFE Shades of Grey (snoball), Tuesday, 17 February 2015 21:15 (eleven years ago)

spotted

― local eire man (darraghmac), Tuesday, 17 February 2015 21:16 (eleven years ago)

chocolate can be combined with other ingredients in unexpected ways to create food

― mattresslessness, Tuesday, 17 February 2015 21:17 (eleven years ago)

I love Marmite and chocolate but the two combined is vile

― kinder, Tuesday, 17 February 2015 21:32 (eleven years ago)

imago?

― 龜, Tuesday, 17 February 2015 21:38 (eleven years ago)

Nutella and foie gras

http://www.vice.com/video/the-black-hoof

― drash, Wednesday, 18 February 2015 06:02 (eleven years ago)

three years pass...

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2018/05/09/chocolate-spill-covers-highway-poland-tanker-trunk-overturns/594308002/

― Fedora Dostoyevsky (man alive), Thursday, 10 May 2018 16:04 (eight years ago)

it's a hansel and gretel world

― F# A# (∞), Thursday, 10 May 2018 17:20 (eight years ago)

three years pass...

Tony's Chocolonely 70% Dark is really great.

― Pataphysician, Tuesday, 8 February 2022 22:32 (four years ago)

six months pass...

cadbury's dairy milk Mystery Bar. milk chocolate with a mystery flavour filling. it's an interesting concept.

currently trying mystery flavour 01. i have no real idea. it's quite pleasant though.

― koogs, Wednesday, 17 August 2022 10:17 (three years ago)

two years pass...

V nice

The Mexican government introduces its new chocolate bar, priced at less than $1USD.

An equivalent bar from a foreign multinational is about $6USD.

Made of 50% cocoa, cane sugar, cocoa butter, powdered milk, vanilla. No refined sugar, no artificial flavourings or colouring pic.twitter.com/ZIb0BGam5A
— Mexico Solidarity Media (@MexSolidarity) July 10, 2025

― xyzzzz__, Friday, 11 July 2025 20:13 (ten months ago)

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