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I remember my last visit to America last august. We were renting a car, and decided to pull up to a Petrol/Gas Station to get supplies for the hotel we were staying at. I saw a Milky Way and wondered if they tasted the same as back in Britain. In britain they taste nice and creamy, and the aftertaste is gorgeous. No sooner had I took a bite then spat it out. No offence to the americans, but your chocolate is a bit poor in taste. I don't know if you have strict regulations or not, or you are trying to hijack the health market, but does anyone else feel the same way or different?

Belgian Chocolate. No contest :P

Cadbury.. need I say more?

Have you had a hershey?

I have. Suffice to say that if I visit the US I'm bringing a stash of Dairy Milk for myself.

French or Belgian. If it's isn't praline, coffee or 70%+ dark, it's crap.

French or Belgian. If it's isn't praline, coffee or 70%+ dark, it's crap.
I am addicted to dark chocolate. Bournville's are gorgeous.

Cadbury.. need I say more?

Cadbury is the best chocolate ever. I just finished a 250g bar. It was chocolatastic.

Belgian Chocolate. No contest :P

Indeed.

There is one American chocolatier who does good work, though- Joseph Schmidt. I used to live s few blocks from the magical chocolate factory in San Francisco....mmmm

American Chocolate fucking sucks. British is decent, but I usually eat German and Italian dark chocolate.

I am addicted to dark chocolate. Bournville's are gorgeous.
Yes, it's good. But IMO Bourneville tastes too sugary. Try Green and Black's Dark 70% or J.D. Grosse Ecuador 70%.

Every time I go there, I wonder how the hell America can be suffering from an Obesity problem. Their chocolate sucks and their television is absolutely unwatchable; an ad break every five minutes, for crying out loud!

I believe the reason that British chocolate is better than American chocolate is because of the milk. Britain has, one of the fastest cow to shop shelf times in the world, if not the fastest time. As a result very little is done to preserve the milk, and as such if has a richer flavour.

On example of the difference of availability of UHT mlik. UHT is not common in the UK and only makes up a tiny proportion of milk sales. I'm aware that UHT is much prevalent in other countries. Especially France. French milk deserves to rot in hell.

edit: My favourite chocolate is Russian. So yummy.

Caramilk bars gross me right out. They have this weird chemical aftertaste that is faintly remeniscent of garlic. A coworker just brought back a bunch of Swiss chocolate, and let me tell you...you BOTH lose to that wonderful taste!

American chocolate, just to be different.

Im 100% Addicted To Swiss Chocolate

American chocolate, just to be different.
I demand you repent or admit your ignorance!

Caramilk bars gross me right out. They have this weird chemical aftertaste that is faintly remeniscent of garlic. A coworker just brought back a bunch of Swiss chocolate, and let me tell you...you BOTH lose to that wonderful taste!to be fair you're probably comparing a luxury swiss chocolate to standard quality US and UK chocolate.

Thortons (commercial luxury UK chocolate) is comparable to Lindt in my opinion. I don't know of any Luxury US chocolatiers.
edit: they have roughly comparable prices - around £2.60 ($4.50) per 100g

I demand you repent or admit your ignorance!

Well the only chocolate I really enjoy is in Oreos, and I think those are American.

Every time I go there, I wonder how the hell America can be suffering from an Obesity problem. Their chocolate sucks and their television is absolutely unwatchable; an ad break every five minutes, for crying out loud!
Thats probably why they eat so much junk food. Out of pure frustration.

Other.. yet USA..

http://www.chocolatebymueller.net

They're in Philly, best truffles ever. Best chocolate ever.

Even tho they're in USA.. they dont taste like other USA chocolates.

Hershey is also good, but you need to get it FRESH. Lucky for me I live 45 minutes away from Hershey PA, where they have the original factory. That whole town smells like orgasmic chocolate

OH MY GOD! I almost forgot.. Polish chocolate is wayyyyyyyyy better than any others..

Well the only chocolate I really enjoy is in Oreos, and I think those are American.
Hmm Oreos are indeed Teh Awesome!

Belgian

Swiss chocolate because I would sleep with anyone for a giant bar of trobalone (sp?)

It would be Cadburys if only the damm things wouldn’t put you in a coma for biting it too hard the thin dairy milk bars you sometimes stumble upon maybe but my puny yellow teeth are no match for a slab of chocolate

Swiss chocolate because I would sleep with anyone for a giant bar of trobalone (sp?)
Is that an offer? :D
Although, yeah, those "puny yellow teeth" don't sound too enticing :p *eats Toblerone alone*

I voted other, naturally.
Though if I had to chose between the two, it'd be British. Based solely on the fact that Cadbury's Raisin and Nuts was the only edible alternative to the dreaded Hershey's when I was in the US and the supermarket was out of Lindt Chocolate.

Hershey's is just... terrible. I can't even find words to describe it. It seriously tastes like the worst, cheapest chocolate cake glaze they sell here. I imagine. First time I tried it, I honestly thought it had gone bad.

I never had any problems with the candy bars though, i.e. Mars, Milky Way, KitKat, Twix etc., maybe a bit different, but still good.

Cadbury tastes a lot better than hersheys in my opinion.

4 words: High Fructose Corn Syrup. It's cheaper to use that here than actual surgar cause of all the fucking subsidies and tariffs

Anything dark. You can't eat it too fast, you have to savor it's rich dark chocolate-ness.

I like European ones generally, but Ghiardhelli(sp?) and some of the gormet, small shops in America are quite good.

27 posts and no mention of Green & Blacks? Eh? Are you lot mad, or just uneducated? I've tried proper Belgian chocolate, and it just doesn't compare.
Here's my list in order of how good chocolate is:

Green & Blacks
Green & Blacks
Green & Blacks
Green & Blacks
Green & Blacks
Belgian
Everything else

Those that pick American surely live in the US and haven't tried anything else. :p

Now, I prefer Swiss chocolate (Toblerone), but I once tasted Mexican chocolate and it was absolutely fantabulous! :D

All I've had is American from what I can remember.

As if I'm going to pay extra for something imported when a Milky Way is only 65 cents.

Italian dark chocolate.

What he said. I love Italian chocolate, especially when it is dark.

Moon chocolate

http://img393.imageshack.us/img393/2042/moonsmaller1fm.jpg

Bernard Callebaut from Calgary (Canada). Makes the Belgian's and their chocolate look weak.

I think the problem lies with American chocolate, and that the problem is twofold; first, there is an overwhelming tendency towards milk chocolate as opposed to dark chocolate. Second, the actual dairy component used in American chocolate is usually rancid by anybody else's standards - with the result being a block of chocolate thoroughly saturated with a strong taste of solidified, rancid milk.

Blecccchh.

Give me Belgian, give me British, Hell give me Swiss, Dutch, German or even Canadian chocolate - but keep your Hershey bars at home. Ugh.

most of the things that people have labled american chocolate aren't chocolate per say. You can't really call a candy bar with nougat and peanuts and caramel and who knows what else inside chocolate just because it's coated in chocolate.

Wow- I love chocolate so much, but I'm afraid I've never had some of the kinds youre all recommending in this thread. I need to get one of my Brit friends to send me some of their chocolate. Even if I bought some 'other' chocolate here in the states....chances are it could have been made in Texas or something.

I cant imagine loving chocolate anymore than I do currently. I might better stay clear of anything better than this rancid American stuff or I might OD.

most of the things that people have labled american chocolate aren't chocolate per say. You can't really call a candy bar with nougat and peanuts and caramel and who knows what else inside chocolate just because it's coated in chocolate.
The selling point of the Hershey is that it is simply chocolate, though. Trouble comes from using rancid dairy products. Taints the product.

The selling point of the Hershey is that it is simply chocolate, though. Trouble comes from using rancid dairy products. Taints the product.

yes, Hershey has got part of the idea right, they just need a little refinement.

yes, Hershey has got part of the idea right, they just need a little refinement.
Why don't they go out on a limb and try making an expensive limited brand? I'd try it when i have the munchies..

Why don't they go out on a limb and try making an expensive limited brand? I'd try it when i have the munchies..

we should send them a letter about that.

Why don't they go out on a limb and try making an expensive limited brand? I'd try it when i have the munchies..
What I generally look for in chocolate is quality vs. price, with quality generally being the more important variable. For dollar value, I'd stick with a Cadbury Premium Dark (100g, 43 % cocoa) over the far pricier Lindt Excellence (100g, and a whopping 70% cocoa). For me the larger format Hershey clocks in at around the same level of satisfaction as the highly suspect "chocolatey confection" traditionally shaped like rabbits that gets trotted out once a year...

belgian its the shitz!!

I'm sorry, but Pennsylvania Dutch chocolate is the best chocolate ever to touch my lips. It's even better than Swiss chocolate.

I like all kinds of chocolate. Chocolate is chocolate. :D

Belgian, Swiss or French chocolate if its factory made.

We have some small special stores with homemade chocolate, that really rules.

I also have a thing with white chocolate...mmmh:D

Swiss, German or Austrian chocolate all the way.

I tried American chocolate once, how can anybody like that stuff? Then again, a friend of mine told me that obviously the USA has a very strict import law regarding all sorts of sweets, which results in forgeign chocolate being almost unaffordable to the average American (she once paid 3 $ (!!!) for one single Kinder Surprise egg while she was over there). It would seem that American legislation protects bad chocolate :D

Cadbury is ok, although not really great, but Galaxy in fact is competition for German chocolate.

Hershey's is just... terrible. I can't even find words to describe it. It seriously tastes like the worst, cheapest chocolate cake glaze they sell here. I imagine. First time I tried it, I honestly thought it had gone bad.



Agreed! I ADORE chocolate, Love Cadbury and Galaxy, also Swiss and Belgian, but when I was in the US we got some Hersheys and it was disgusting, I have never not enjoyed chocolate before and was astounded by how horrible it was, I gave it to my children, and none of them would eat it after one taste, we threw the whole lot of it away...yuk.

I also found that the American versions of UK sweets/candy tasted different, more manufactured somehow and not as nice, so I spent 3 weeks minus a decent bit of chocolate. How terrible is that? :eek:

The best chocolate I've ever had comes from the mom-and-pop candy store about a quarter mile from my house. They make a lot of their own stock...I don't know where they're getting their materials, but the stuff is damn good!

Awesome...they even have a website!

http://www.wilmarchocolates.com/

British chocolate? Does it taste like wet newspapper mixed with nuts?

To be honest the only "American" chocolate i have tried was the hersey bars they released over here in the Uk and they weren't that bad certainly better than that kiddie's nut free chocolate: liddemans or something, maybe they meddled with the recipe so that it actually sold over here. In terms of standard chocolate i am torn between the 2 main UK brands of galaxy and cadbury's dairymilk, galaxy is smoother but not s chocolatly as dairymilk and of course according to the ruopeans neither of them are propper chocolate, instead being chocolate flavour milk solid bars.

Now Yorkie, theres a nice smooth lump of vaguely chocolatly goodness and the czech studentska bar is interesting with its bits of jelly, fruit and nuts...

French or Belgian. If it's isn't praline, coffee or 70%+ dark, it's crap.
apart from the coffee, i still don't agree with you... but i do like those! :P

british chocolate definatley beats american stuff... strange tasting over-sweet nonsense... ewww.
the stuff i had over there tasted kinda like the really cheep fatty stuff you get in easter eggs or something - just cheap

now, cadbury's or bourneville... mm there's good chocolate :)
or milka! or....

http://www.benjis-direct.com/smartedit/images/products/02/bar70.jpg

any of the fine lindt sellection *drools*

all chocolate is good apart from coffee or rum.

I have never tasted American chocolate, but I hear it is quite bitter? I'll stick with my Cadbury's, anyway. I'm allergic to change.

New Zealand Chocolate or whoever claims to make Toberlorone(SP).

I remember my last visit to America last august. We were renting a car, and decided to pull up to a Petrol/Gas Station to get supplies for the hotel we were staying at. I saw a Milky Way and wondered if they tasted the same as back in Britain. In britain they taste nice and creamy, and the aftertaste is gorgeous. No sooner had I took a bite then spat it out. No offence to the americans, but your chocolate is a bit poor in taste. I don't know if you have strict regulations or not, or you are trying to hijack the health market, but does anyone else feel the same way or different?


British chocolate is definitely better than American but it's a long way from being the best. I like German stuff; especially Ritter Sport, although I think the natives regard that as fairly ordinary. Belgian or Swiss chocolate probably holds the top spot but I think most of mainland Europe produces high quality product.

On the subject of Milky Ways, I believe in America they are a somewhat different candy bar; closer to our Mars Bar than our Milky Way.

Wow- I love chocolate so much, but I'm afraid I've never had some of the kinds youre all recommending in this thread. I need to get one of my Brit friends to send me some of their chocolate. Even if I bought some 'other' chocolate here in the states....chances are it could have been made in Texas or something.


i'd be only so happy to oblige! :D
could send you some decent cadbury's, some lindt, galaxy, bourneville, milka... anybody got any suggestions for specific italian chocolate, say?
ooh do you have snickers bars over there? they're like a british....thing. *nods*


though, yes, you might find it hard going back to your domestic stuff ;)

New Zealand Chocolate or whoever claims to make Toberlorone(SP).

Toblerone? Ever heard of a small, rocky place called Switzerland? :D

27 posts and no mention of Green & Blacks? Eh? Are you lot mad, or just uneducated?
Yes, it's good. But IMO Bourneville tastes too sugary. Try Green and Black's Dark 70% or J.D. Grosse Ecuador 70%.
:p

now, cadbury's or bourneville... mm there's good chocolate :)
or milka! or....

http://www.benjis-direct.com/smartedit/images/products/02/bar70.jpg

any of the fine lindt sellection *drools*

all chocolate is good apart from coffee or rum.
Bourneville = Cadbury's

Try Green & Black's Dark 70% (aside from being the best it's also fairly traded) or J.D. Grosse Ecuador 70% which is available from Lidl.

Oh yeah and white "chocolate" is shite.

Lindt & Sprüngli make very good chocolate, regardless of it's manufactured in the US or Switzerland. :D

I remember my last visit to America last august. We were renting a car, and decided to pull up to a Petrol/Gas Station to get supplies for the hotel we were staying at. I saw a Milky Way and wondered if they tasted the same as back in Britain. In britain they taste nice and creamy, and the aftertaste is gorgeous. No sooner had I took a bite then spat it out. No offence to the americans, but your chocolate is a bit poor in taste. I don't know if you have strict regulations or not, or you are trying to hijack the health market, but does anyone else feel the same way or different?

American Mars bars were a different product then the rest of the world's. They're now discontinued.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_Bar

Bourneville = Cadbury's

yes but the bars are distinctly different. i'm talking brands here.

Try Green & Black's Dark 70% (aside from being the best it's also fairly traded) or J.D. Grosse Ecuador 70% which is available from Lidl.
well that was just an example of lindt chocolate - the creamy white chocolate version is my favourite (and what i was looking for) but okeydoke... lidl chocolate is actually quite good! :)
as are their cookies...mmmm...

Oh yeah and white "chocolate" is shite.
i like milky bars!

LISTEN TO YOURSELVES! You're all under it's power! It's a freakin' bitter nut from South America and somehow it's managed to explode onto the world market and infiltrate all nations and societies with it's evil decadent ways!

Can't you see? IT RULES YOUR LIVES!! What is chocolate anyway? It isn't like any other food stuff on earth. It's ALIEN I tells you, goddamn straight-out-of-a-textbook ET mind control substance and you pack it into your dribbling maws with both greedy hands.

The Aztecs (Or Incas, whatever) knew!!1! This is the vengeance of their gods! We will all be swallowed by creamy sweet waves of chocolate when the planets are aligned and the ancient ones return!

FORESWEAR THE CHOCOLATE!! Run to the hills! Buy lots of guns, dogs and breed like rabbits! We'll need an army when the time comes! Oh yes!!!!! An ARMY!!!!





But Cadbury's is still the best chocolate by any price/quality ratio.

I remember my last visit to America last august. We were renting a car, and decided to pull up to a Petrol/Gas Station to get supplies for the hotel we were staying at. I saw a Milky Way and wondered if they tasted the same as back in Britain. In britain they taste nice and creamy, and the aftertaste is gorgeous. No sooner had I took a bite then spat it out. No offence to the americans, but your chocolate is a bit poor in taste. I don't know if you have strict regulations or not, or you are trying to hijack the health market, but does anyone else feel the same way or different?

I noticed the same thing on one of my trips to London. The British version of Snickers is much better. I don't recall if I had milky way or not. Anyway, my favorite is probably Russian or German. The Russians have some coffee flavored chocolate that is rather tasty. I may be alone there, but it is sort an acquired taste, and I don't even drink coffee. lol

Thortons kicks cadburys arse.

Snickers PAH it used to be called Marathon, before they lost their minds and renamed it, I heard because it was called that in the US, also renamed Opal Fruits to Starburst...whats that all about?

Snickers PAH it used to be called Marathon, before they lost their minds and renamed it, I heard because it was called that in the US, also renamed Opal Fruits to Starburst...whats that all about?


Yeah i know, damn you American names, tis Opal fruits and Marathon to me.

Lindt/Lindor, Galaxy, Thorntons, Green & Blacks, Fry's, Cote d'or and Divine are all nice chocolates as far as I'm concerned. :)

Belgian Chocolate. No contest :P
Definitely.
http://www.ecallebaut.com/html_en/

Most American chocolate: lots of vegetable fat, synthesised stuff and little actual cocoa.

Most British chocolate: lots of vegetable fat (though slightly less due to laws), synthesised stuff and little actual cocoa (except for some of the stuff that is exported as chocolate, which needs more).

Belgian chocolate: expect at least 10-20% Pure cocoa. Then after that, there's the powder which makes up roughly 50-70%

Okay, so they're made up on the spot (those statistics), but generally, Belgian chocolate is way way way better than either British or American, simply because of the old Belgian Congo. The chocolate which does contest Belgian chocolate is often chocolate with fruits or nuts and the like, because there it's not important that it's as pure and tasty as possible.

LISTEN TO YOURSELVES! You're all under it's power! It's a freakin' bitter nut from South America and somehow it's managed to explode onto the world market and infiltrate all nations and societies with it's evil decadent ways!

For me, its a friggin nut from Africa

Any! But I am addicted to hand-made stuff which tastes much better than that factory stuff.

British Chocolate or American Chocolate?
Sorry, but that's like asking someone to say which tastes better:
Cow shit or horse shit.

My all-time favourite chocolate is someone I would wager no-one here has ever heard of: Fellmans.

Fellman is a Swiss chocolateur living in New Zealand and his hand-made praline and gianduja chocolates are to kill for. They are solid at room temp, but melt at 32C (i.e in your mouth), which is what really good quality chocolate's meant to do. Any that don't have vegeatble fat added, which gives it a greasy shiny appearance. Coco butter melts at a really low temp. Vegetable fat doesn't.

Other than Fellmans (of which I bought 4 kgs of his wonderful pralines, chocolate mice and fish home with me last time - and amazingly still have a few left), I'd go for Belgian chocs: Leonardos, Godivers, Guylian. Good quality, abeit expensive (3x the price of Fellmans, another reason to love his chocolates!)


Embarassingly, Fellman knows me so well by now that when I rung him up to order some and used my parents address he said he thought I was istill n Hong Kong and then asked me how my teaching was going. Kinda sad that a chocolateur knows that much about one's personal life. I admit I have a chocolate problem.
But fuck it, if it wasn't this it'd alcohol (and that's worse and more expensive). I think I've chosen my addictions wisely: chocolate and exercise. Gyming helps work off the chocolate and makes me feel so good that I can justify buying some more chocolate as a treat. Perfect circle.

Most American chocolate: lots of vegetable fat, synthesised stuff and little actual cocoa.

Most British chocolate: lots of vegetable fat (though slightly less due to laws), synthesised stuff and little actual cocoa (except for some of the stuff that is exported as chocolate, which needs more).

Belgian chocolate: expect at least 10-20% Pure cocoa. Then after that, there's the powder which makes up roughly 50-70%
That reminds me that a few years ago British chocolate makers were complaining about the EU. Because of the EU laws, they wouldn't be able to call their stuff 'chocolate', as it had too much vegetable fat and not enough cocoa solids and cocoa butter.
That should tell you something about British chocolate.
And the makers. Instead of changing their product, they just went complaining to the govt, demanding the EU law be changed so they could flood their crap into Europe.

Lindt/Lindor, Galaxy, Thorntons, Green & Blacks, Fry's, Cote d'or and Divine are all nice chocolates as far as I'm concerned. :)


Lindor's dark chocolate truffles are really good.

Lindor's dark chocolate truffles are really good.


O_o

I forgot about those. YUM!

O_o

I forgot about those. YUM!


I'm not big on candy/confections/dessert type stuff, but I do like dark chocolate.

I'm not big on candy/confections/dessert type stuff, but I do like dark chocolate.


Oh, then there's a chance you'd like my dark chocolate /fudge/truffle cake. You have to have a big glass of milk to go with it and be prepared to unbutton your pants.


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Ha! Well that didnt come out right now did it?

Oh, then there's a chance you'd like my dark chocolate /fudge/truffle cake. You have to have a big glass of milk to go with it and be prepared to unbutton your pants.


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Ha! Well that didnt come out right now did it?

I try to keep it decent, but you just push me and push me.

Yes Peech, I'd love your dark chocolate-I'd love it in a box. I'd love it with a box.

And unbutton your pants with my teeth.

From those two, definitely British! American chocolate tastes like garbage! :mad:

Besides them, we have some really good chocolade over here in Germany, like Milka! :Dhttp://assets.jolt.co.uk/forums/images/icons/icon14.gif
Belgian and Swiss chocolade (Lindt) is good either.
I can't stand dark chocolade though.

I try to keep it decent, but you just push me and push me.

Yes Peech, I'd love your dark chocolate-I'd love it in a box. I'd love it with a box.

And unbutton your pants with my teeth.


lol...I shouldnt be allowed to post around you. *blush*

lol...I shouldnt be allowed to post around you. *blush*


you should stay away from my cage. I dont know who brings out the worst in who.

That reminds me that a few years ago British chocolate makers were complaining about the EU. Because of the EU laws, they wouldn't be able to call their stuff 'chocolate', as it had too much vegetable fat and not enough cocoa solids and cocoa butter.
That should tell you something about British chocolate.
And the makers. Instead of changing their product, they just went complaining to the govt, demanding the EU law be changed so they could flood their crap into Europe.

And people in Belgium will never buy that crap.

Or if they do, it will just be mainstream crap, like snickers and mars bars.

Either that, or the British quality stuff.

So actually, the law should have been passed (was it? I don't recall) to keep people from buying stuff purely made of vegetable oil.

Mmmm... Chocolate :fluffle:

Wow, I haev a lot of responses. I didn't expect this to be here today.

I remember my last visit to America last august. We were renting a car, and decided to pull up to a Petrol/Gas Station to get supplies for the hotel we were staying at. I saw a Milky Way and wondered if they tasted the same as back in Britain. In britain they taste nice and creamy, and the aftertaste is gorgeous. No sooner had I took a bite then spat it out. No offence to the americans, but your chocolate is a bit poor in taste. I don't know if you have strict regulations or not, or you are trying to hijack the health market, but does anyone else feel the same way or different?

There IS no 'American Chocolate'.

Oh, then there's a chance you'd like my dark chocolate /fudge/truffle cake. You have to have a big glass of milk to go with it and be prepared to unbutton your pants.


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Ha! Well that didnt come out right now did it?

:o

The Germans know how to make chocolate. My cousins bring me some whenever they come to visit.

:o


I know. All this rancid American chocolate must be getting to me.

i like milky bars!
OK, but it's not chocolate.

French or Belgian. If it's isn't praline, coffee or 70%+ dark, it's crap.
I fully support the above statement.

And will add; Milk Chocolate and White Chocolate are an abomination.

Other.. yet USA..

http://www.chocolatebymueller.net

They're in Philly, best truffles ever. Best chocolate ever.

Even tho they're in USA.. they dont taste like other USA chocolates.

Hershey is also good, but you need to get it FRESH. Lucky for me I live 45 minutes away from Hershey PA, where they have the original factory. That whole town smells like orgasmic chocolate

OH MY GOD! I almost forgot.. Polish chocolate is wayyyyyyyyy better than any others..

I'll have to go try the chocolatebymueller... but if you live in that vicinity, you're missing out if you've never been to Asher's chocoalte factory. They make all sort of high-end chocolates for international companies, sold under other names. And if you visit their factory store regularly, you can get "seconds" - the imperfect rejects - at very reasonable prices, and they don't lose any of their taste, even if their looks aren't impeccable. www.ashers.com

Also, Hershey is nothing on Wilbur. It's located in Lilitz, which is very near Hershey... but they never did the whole "melts in your mouth, not in your hand" thing, which nastized Hershey's and made their chocolate not melt ANYWHERE. Their chocolate still melts in your hand as well as your mouth, and it's just lovely, smooth, soft, delicious chocolate. Plus, they invented the "kiss" before Hershey, except it says "wilbur" on it, and they aren't individually wrapped. And they taste about 1000% better. www.wilburbuds.com or www.wilburchocolate.com

Lindor's dark chocolate truffles are really good.

Oh, they're to DIE for... I won't even share them with my kid... those are MINE! ALL MINE!!!!

Mexican chocolate, the original, with swiss a close second.

I remember my last visit to America last august. We were renting a car, and decided to pull up to a Petrol/Gas Station to get supplies for the hotel we were staying at. I saw a Milky Way and wondered if they tasted the same as back in Britain. In britain they taste nice and creamy, and the aftertaste is gorgeous. No sooner had I took a bite then spat it out. No offence to the americans, but your chocolate is a bit poor in taste. I don't know if you have strict regulations or not, or you are trying to hijack the health market, but does anyone else feel the same way or different?

candy bars are made to be shipped long distances over a variety of totally inappropriate temperatures and sit boxed up for months on end before they end up in vending machines and gas stations. god only know how long that thing sat around there before you bought it! blech!

i used to like cadburys before i found a dead worm in one. unwrapped the bar, and there it was lying on top of it, or rather into it. technically, i think it was worms, but i couldn't be bothered to really dig into it to find out.

i'll take lindt or toblerone instead, myself. if i'm baking i'll use ghirardelli for everyday stuff and the good stuff for special occassions.

british chocolate is so much better, may not be better for you, but if your eating chocolate, who cares about health

british chocolate is so much better, may not be better for you, but if your eating chocolate, who cares about health

Actually, the Cocoa bean contains an antioxidant that helps prevent cholesterol buildup in the arteries.

Dutch or Swiss chocolate. I'm American and our chocolate is Ok, but not realy good. :(

Actually, the Cocoa bean contains an antioxidant that helps prevent cholesterol buildup in the arteries.Chocolate is probably not the best way to get this antioxidant though. Fruit and vegetables and even tea are much healthier ways. Processed chocolate is NOT healthy.

Chocolate is probably not the best way to get this antioxidant though. Fruit and vegetables and even tea are much healthier ways. Processed chocolate is NOT healthy.
Actually, Dark Chocolate contains a massive amount of flavanols. So much so that it is used in medical testing.

There was a study done fairly recently using this chocolate. To summarize, it found that people that eat a moderate amount of Dark chocolate had boosted anti-oxidant and HDL levels, and lowered LDL levels.

You're all crazy... German chocolate is the best :p

between American and British, Brits win hands down... but over in the UK you dont have Twinkies.... so my Brit darling and I exchange confections on an annual basis....

French chocolate is amazing. :)

French chocolate is amazing. :)

agreed :)

If you want good American chocolate, try See's or Godiva. You don't get them at grocery stores and I don't think See's is available on the East Coast, but you can order it.

When I lived in America I practically gave up chocolate :(

When I lived in Belgium on the other hand..