Post about chocolate!

[Whisper-Kitten]

Whittaker's is my go to chocolate.

Every now and then I'm tempted to try hershey's but then I remember how terrible it tastes.

I remember liking Cadbury as a kid, but now it seems like it's just so much waxy naughty word.

I liked it when you only got it at Easter. Now that it is there year round and I can eat it all the time it's lost its luster.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

I made a tea float after dinner at Jason’s Deli tonight using chocolate soft serve.

 

[Ryujin]

I can't really eat chocolate these days, 'cause of the diabetus, but I keep some around in case by blood glucose crashes. My favourites were generally Coffee Crisp (the only way I'd take anything with the word "coffee" in the name) or, sadly, one that went out of production a couple of years ago; Cherry Blossom.

If I'm really hankering for some chocolate then I'll pick up a bag of something like Russell Stover sugar free pecan clusters. Unfortunately they can be pretty pricey and supply isn't all that stable. They'll occasionally go on sale and I'll get a bunch.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

Mom & I just tried a piece of a Tony’s chocolate bar (a birthday gift to her from a friend) with bits of pecans & caramel. It was kind of like a cross between a Toblerone and a Nestle’s Crunch.

 

[jian]

Mom & I just tried a piece of a Tony’s chocolate bar (a birthday gift to her from a friend) with bits of pecans & caramel. It was kind of like a cross between a Toblerone and a Nestle’s Crunch.

Yes, they’re pretty good. I remember the Crunch when it first came out in the U.K. in its current incarnation in the 90s, very impressive.

 

[Zardnaar]

I liked it when you only got it at Easter. Now that it is there year round and I can eat it all the time it's lost its luster.

Cadbury changed the recipes a while back. Got bought out by Americans and the decided to Americanize it.

Cadbury factory here lost 2/3rds of demand and closed down few years later.

Worse than Hershey imho now.


When it was good up to 2009 iirc.

 

[payn]

Cadbury changed the recipes a while back. Got bought out by Americans and the decided to Americanize it.

Cadbury factory here lost 2/3rds of demand and closed down few years later.

Worse than Hershey imho now.


When it was good up to 2009 iirc.

Cadbury was great... not so much now.

 

[gnarlygninja]

I haven’t tried Dubai chocolate, and don’t intend to. But by your description, it’s kind of an experience like I had with tiramisu.

I’ve eaten tiramisu many times in the USA, with different levels of enjoyment. But I’d pretty much given up on it for decades by the time I was invited to Rome for a special occasion in 2015. At some point, I ordered tiramisu because the establishment we were in didn’t have gelato.

It was the best damn tiramisu I’d ever had. Suddenly, I understood the dessert on a completely different level than I’d ever expected. I comprehended where American versions had failed.

I had it a couple more times on that trip. Each time it was better than what I’ve had in America.

Tiramisu is a pretty good comparison! A lot of the cheaper ones can skimp out on or leave out ingredients and it was considered a very fancy (thus overpriced and over marketed) thing for a while in the US. But there's also the fact that tiramisu is one of those foods Italians will scream about Americans making wrong, and it sounds like you might just plain like that version better. It's probably fair to not try Dubai chocolate at this point, the awful versions are crowding out the good ones and the way they're priced just offends me. A bakery near me that offers dubai chocolate cookies is about the only place I get it now (it costs .50 more than the other cookies).


I am currently enjoying some little pistachio and marzipan chocolate sticks I picked up at a German market. There's no branding on them, and I suspect they're not the highest quality, but they're good enough for a Sunday afternoon.

 

[cbwjm]

I can't really eat chocolate these days, 'cause of the diabetus, but I keep some around in case by blood glucose crashes. My favourites were generally Coffee Crisp (the only way I'd take anything with the word "coffee" in the name) or, sadly, one that went out of production a couple of years ago; Cherry Blossom.

If I'm really hankering for some chocolate then I'll pick up a bag of something like Russell Stover sugar free pecan clusters. Unfortunately they can be pretty pricey and supply isn't all that stable. They'll occasionally go on sale and I'll get a bunch.

I'm the same, diabetes has curbed my chocolate consumption. Probably a good thing since before diabetes came into my life, I was a bit of a chonker. I think if I hadn't got type 1 diabetes that type 2 wouldn't have been far off. Still the occasional treat is fine to have as long as you account for it.

 

[Ryujin]

I'm the same, diabetes has curbed my chocolate consumption. Probably a good thing since before diabetes came into my life, I was a bit of a chonker. I think if I hadn't got type 1 diabetes that type 2 wouldn't have been far off. Still the occasional treat is fine to have as long as you account for it.

Type 2 for me and a couple of years before my diagnosis I hit just over 200 pounds, at 5'9" (not good). My doctor seemed somewhat confused that I lost weight, before my diagnosis. As in back down to 160 pounds. Seems the opposite is usually true?