Chocolate - pure, unadulterated, luxurious, sensuous, irresistable chocolate
 

I'm not so sure I'll have much to say myself, but something tells me that this topic could be a popular one.

I have a reasonably sweet tooth, and have memories of particular chocs that won my everlasting devotion - sadly many have disappeared over the years (like Walnut Whips, and Five Boys), but there are those that HAVE survived (like Terry's Chocolate Orange).

Do you prefer dark or milk? Solid chocolate bars (which ones?) or chocolate as a coating around something else that makes the overall eating experience interesting (whereas it wouldn't be without the combination)? What about desserts like Chocolate Mousse, Death-by-chocolate, or that regular treat (over here anyway) Profiterolles? Do you like chocolate drinks? Hot or Cold? Ice cream...?

Goodness, so much to consider once you get started.....

(Just noticed a couple of earlier threads on the subject in the archives - suppose I should have looked earlier - but before there didn't seem to be the excitement, sensuality or the broken secrecy that this topic should create. So let your inhibitions drop by the wayside - bare all and expose your innermost lusting for this most devilish of confectionaries...)

I adore chocolate. My favorites are deep and dark and whisper sweet nothings in my ear. A local favorite is Esther Price's Chocolates. Cream-filled, toffees, sweet cherries, peanut-butter and nuts! YUM! I like actual chocolate candy and hot chocolates better than chocolate cakes, ice-cream or cookies. Chocolate creme pie (with additional semi-sweet morsels) is --Ahhhh! :) Bliss!

San Fran's Ghirardelli is an excellent choice. Dove is also quite good. I like a creamy, rich, dark chocolate. I like to FEEL it.

I might have known you'd be up there amongst the elite Brianna - the stuff's melting all around just reading your words - you naughty little chocoholic, you!

Come and get me, CycleFrance! I already love you(based upon your magnificent house and apparently hedonistic lifestyle!!--ADOPT ME???)


kISSES! Bri

Dark. I prefer solid bars, and I try just about every brand I encounter. Ghirardeli and Lindt are commonly available in my area, and good.

I also have a bit of a soft spot for Hershey Special Dark, too, because it was my favorite of the Hershey mini assortment pack commonly available on Halloween when I was a kid.

Oh, yeah - I also liked the Chocolate Orange I got in a store in the Florida Keys, it was flavored with key lime instead of orange.

Well. Clearly, you are lying.

Aah, my titillating Turkish-Town delight, I fear adoption, though tempting, would prove too heavy a commitment so early in our relationship. Far better to enjoy sweet seductive snatches (no - not that sort of snatch - well..., maybe, on second thoughts....) within these libidious walls for now. BTW, I hope that you're up-to-date with Marichiko's communal story - you seem to be featuring quite prominently, if you don't mind my saying....

I couldn't think of a better way to put it. It wasn't a Chocolate Key Lime, since it was still orange-shaped and orange-sized. It was a Chocolate Orange with the orange flavor replaced with key lime flavor. :yum:

Key lime?? What's key lime?? Sounds like something you use to get limescale off a bath-tap...

Dude, you are just begging to have your chocolate thread hijacked.

"What is Key Lime?" Indeed.

I once won a dessert contest with my White Chocolate Key Lime Truffles. They were delicious and pretty, but to make them was incredibly difficult. I can see why they cost a couple of bucks apiece now. Very tasty, very tempermental, very labor intensive.

We don't have key lime - the only things we have that mentions the word 'key' open doors and things that are similarly locked shut. Lime is lime over here. I hope that rather than have to do a web-search one of you kind cellarites will tell me what it is? Perleease...!

Too late - I looked it up - limes from the Florida Keys....

Don't think we have much in the way of chocolate lime sweets here - sound addictive - will see what I can find in town next week...

Going back to Chocolate orange....

The Terry's chocolate orange is basically orange flavoured milk chocolate the whole displayed as a complete orange which is divided into around 32 or so 'slices'

We also have another much nicer chocolate orange which is made of thin slices of dried real orange pieces that have a sweet bitter taste to them and these have then been dipped and coated in rich, dark-chocolate - sooooperb!

If chocolate is to be combined with fruit, that fruit must be raspberry.

It is not to be rudely dipped in the chocolate. It is to be made into a puree and used in various chocolate desserts.

Well--fork it over! I'm tired of all this, "we have, we eat..." GIVE US SOME!

ps--if CycleFrance adopts me--I will be very, very, very good. I promise! :angel: Now--when can you expect me? :)

That just reminded me of a radio comedy show we used to have a few years back called 'I'm Sorry I'll Read That Again'. John Cleese and a number of other comedy regulars were in it. One of their Christmas episodes was a take on Alice in Wonderland, starting with Alice meeting the author Lewis Carroll, who had a reputation for liking little girls (dirty man!). Their meeting conversation went something like:

'Hello. little girl (heh, heh, heh), What's your name?'
'My name's Alice, sir. What's your name?'
'My name's Lewis, I'm an author. Do you like stories?'
'Oh, yes, I DO!'
'Would you like me to tell you a story, then? (heh, heh).
'Ooooh, Yeees, Pleeease, I love stories. I'd do anything for a story...'
'Ohhh, too much, too much...! Well then, I'll tell you one... But first, tell me, are you a good little girl?'
'Ooooh Yeees sir - I don't think you'll be disappointed...'
'Ohhhh, ohhhh, ohhh....!'

Well they say English humour is an acquired taste - probably a bit a like lime chocolates!! BTW I'd like to send you some orange chocolates, but while I've been writing this, they, umm, seem to have all sort of.... gone!

Don't fret, none of that pouting bottom lip thing is necessary - I'll have some more by the time you get here... ;)

Hmmm - Crunchy frog - heap good.

Coconut and chocolate together - drool!! Bounty Bars are one of my favourites.. oh and cherry ripes. There is also one out now called Lindt Pistashio.. and although expensive.. is to die for!

Nothing is better than a sweet white hot chocolate drink on a rainy day with a melting marshmallow to form the frothy head.. mmmmmmmmmmmmm

I dont much like chocolate cake, or chocolate syrup or chocolate ice cream.. i like my chocolate REAL and satisfying!

Wen i was last in Melbourne Airport i brought (for $15.99 a slab!) this special chocolate caled foroco (or somethign like that) any way i brought it in a slab form and you got a little potato peeler thing with it to peel off some when you wanted a slice. It was made, instead of dairy milk, with the milk from puree'd hazelnuts and natural cocoa beans. it was abosolutely worth every cent i paid for it.. just divine! but i felt so seedy afterward! :)

Blimey! and there was me thinking all you had was just Castlemaine XXXX and Fosters on the drinks side, and prawns and such off the Barby. No wonder you go around saying 'no worries' all the time. A right little chocolate passionado, you are for sure, young lady! Don't think I've ever come across white chocolate drink over here - I bet you keep it all to youselves you naughty, naughty Ozzies you (can I really blame you!?) - Horlicks is about the closest we'd get, and that ain't even beginning to be close! And to think that on top of all this all the above contain hardly any calories at all - amazing!!

With nuts.

Right now my main favorite is hershey's milk chocolate with almonds.

I think it's all about the texture. I love Death by Chocolate icecream, which is, as I recall, chocolate icecream with these chewey fudge chunks and chocolate covered peanuts.

Chocolate covered peanuts are also the win.

Generally - I tend to stick to the dark chocolate varieties. I like how it gives you a slight kick in the pants when you eat it - a wonderful caffiene rush - and it's not too sweet.

Right now, I am totally digging the new Coffee KitKats and Peanut butter filled hershey kisses. If they would only make dark chocolate varieties of the above, I would be quite happy.

Now to find out the real chocoholics!

How many of you would find either this, or this, or possibly even this appetising?

I'd probably go for the pork fat with chocolate. Sounds like the solution to all my PMS problems. I wish we had Fry Shops like they do in Scotland. I hear deep-fried Mars bars are delish!

Chicken Mole is lovely... and you hardly notice the chocolate - at least that's what I think. It seems that it is more there for color if anything.

Must be showing my age - can't get my brain round chocolate being in either starter or main course. Maybe I'll have to be put in the situation where it's on offer on a menu (starter certainly, main course still not sure I'd take it). Chocolate as dessert absolutely no problem - wife makes a magic choco mousse with a kick of alcohol to make it even more inviting!

We also have an ultra dark chocolate called Green and Black - used to be a private brand but just got taken over by one of the major brands who say they will keep it as it is - we'll have to see as these promises tend to be linked to growth prospects and balance sheets... Nice website though - will have your taste buds doing overtime just looking at it and reading about it.

yes i too think i would eat the chocolate pork fat. I really enjoy those salty porky bits, sold in packets like chips.. and i also enjoy chocolate so i think i'd definately have a "crack at it"

I've had Chicken Mole - it was cooked by an English friend from a cookery book, so I can't vouch for its authenticity, but it was delicious. And I agree with Melidasaur in that you can't really identify the chocolate - then again, I was very, very drunk....

Cyclefrance, following the key lime discussion am I to assume you don't remember Chocolate Limes? Pastel green boiled sweets with chocolate inside. They were a favourite of mine in the days of old-fashioned sweetshops.

uh... no... can't say I remembered the lime ones - had something similar like hard toffee flavoured boiled sweet with chocolate inside (bit like a toffee chocolate eclair but the toffee wasn't soft and chewy - mind you THEY were nice). Trouble is that if I start thinking about childhood sweets then the subject goes swinging away from chocolate to embrace such goodies as sherbert flying saucers, sweet cigarettes, fried eggs, shrimps, liquorice shoe-laces, gob-stoppers, those ones that explode on your tongue (sherbert bangers?), and so on. What about frozen jubblies? - see it starts a whole new thread if we're not careful... The only major chocolate one I really remember that has now disappeared was the 'Curly-Wurly' - advertised on the telly by Terry Scott doing his naughty schoolboy act ('my bruvva...')

Sad, or what....!

Curly-Wurlies are still on the market I promise - in fact I had one just a few months ago. I prefer to put them in the fridge so that I can snap off sections - if you let the caramel pull, all the chocolate falls off!

Frozen jubblies? I think that's what I get in Winter :eek:
I won't hijack this with penny sweets, but I do miss milk teeth and beer bottles.....!

Hang on a minute!- you've completely written off maraschino cherries - BFG to you my revered Overlord - and that's not Big Friendly Giant (a la Raould Dahl), nor anything desultory - no, would I ever (?) - this BFG refers to Black Forest Gateau! - very yummy!

Anyone into Cadbury's Creme Eggs...?

Absolutely not! I hate eggs and the fact that the interior of the Cadbury Creme Egg resembles a real egg is enough to make me :vomit:

I enjoy the Cadbury Creme Eggs, but much prefer the Dove truffle Eggs. The Cadbury Eggs are just too sweet ... now, if they were made with Dark Chocolate, they might have something, with a bitter shell being set off by the sweet creme interior. I like the imitation egg looking filling ... actually one of the selling points for me.

Dark Chocolate is the best, the bitterer the better (but still of edible quality rather than baking ingredient quality. I have one of those lindt extra dark 80% bars in the fridge. oooh drool)

I LOVE Cadbury Creme Eggs--quasi-yolk filling and all! Gooey goodness! And, after I eat one or two, I can CONQUER THE WORLD!

Well what do you know - tuned on the telly to watch while I had my cuppa tea - Channel 4, Gordon Ramsay (aka Urbane Guerilla) new food programme on, and what is he cooking? Only venison in a red wine and chocolate sauce!

Seems the chocolate main course is with us to stay!

I like all kinds of chocolate - except white. Pappa said "never trust whitey" snd I don't. He also said "the Lord loves a working man," and he taught me the difference between s*** and shinola.

I am still not too sure about that last one...

That's one for 'Wierd Sayings' (and Wolf's answer)

I watched it too & immediately thought of The Cellar!
Can't say I fancied the gannet much though :yelsick:

Creme Eggs seduce me with their shiny red & blue foil wrappers & their comedy fondant egginess. But I always make such a mess when I'm eating one, and always feel a bit sick after.

Wonder what they're like deep fried......?

Ref Mr Ramsay last night - missed the gannet - dog demanding walkies!

Also saw in paper this morning that Jamie Oliver was in trouble for slaughtering a lamb on prime time TV. Reminded me immediately of that time Simon Dee banged a budgie cage which resulted in an instantaneous end to his career - we Brits won't stand any foul play when it comes to animals (even with dogs who want walkies!)

Back to chocolate - why on earth did they discontinue walnut whips???????

I missed Jamie, but from what I have heard about the programme I would not have had a problem with it. I'm not a vegetarian and I can face up to the fact that animals are killed in order for me to eat them.

Anyway, balaclava away, hijack avoided - Walnut Whips? Do you have a very poorly stocked sweet shop near you, or are you subscribing to "Vanishing Chocolate Weekly"? I am pretty convinced I have seen Walnut Whips on sale recently... It will be my mission this lunchtime.

If they really have disappeared, you know M&S do a reasonable facsimile don't you?

Like Creme Eggs, I have always found them hard to eat in a clean way. In both senses of the word.

You are a veritable fountain of confectionary knowledge. Haven't seen WWs down here for years, and was sure there was a press article about their being axed way back. M&S WWs haven't seen either - although trips tend to be for the trooses and undiwundies, so tend to give the food hall a miss. I will explore thoroughly next visit.

I agree with you about Creme Eggs - they are definitely members of the 'sounded like a good idea at the time' fraternity - so sticky...!

Communication error: Did you just say that you go to the store to buy a device to keep your hernia from sticking out and underpants?

Troosies (i.e trousers) - not trusses, mind you some of the cuts of M&S trousers....

I've never heard of a thing called a Walnut Whip. Describe. Please.

On the off chance you're not asking rhetorically (and with triple digit posts, you should know better...), I give you the Deep Fried Snickers Bar.

A visual sample:

http://images.egullet.com/u2/i4983.jpg

I have had this before, more than once, and it is tasty, decadent, but not the highest expression of chocolate's sublimity. Have one (or two) if you get the chance, then you can cross that one off your dance card.



edit: fixed spelling typo with Montrose's Hot, Sweet and Sticky in the background. Appropos.

Did anybody mention Nutella?

I forgot all about Nutella! Oh, yummmmmmm! Going to the store to get some right NOW!! :yum:

It was a pyramid/cone of whirly milk chocolate about 2" high and 2" diameter at the base. The inside was hollow and contained white mousse-like fluffy chocolate - very light in texture more like whipped egg white. The whole thing was capped with a half walnut

The chocolate was fairly thick and it took a good set of choppers (teeth) to bite through it. The trick was to bite off the top with walnut and a good chunk of chocolate first, then to suck out the white fluffy mixture leaving the empty shell to attack wuth gusto - all in all, very messy in terms of execution, but very satisfying in terms of eating experience!!


This picture gives you an idea of what I mean. Looks like Nestle apparently still makes them (of a sort) but the originals were made by a small manufacturere called Duncan - Duncan's Walnut Whips were in a class of their own!

Thank god you explained that - I thought it was a diseased lung at first!!

I think you mean Ferrero Rocher. They sell them here in the US in drugstores and department stores.

I've never heard of them in slabs. I've only seen the chocolate candies in the gold wrapper. According to their FAQ, they do have others.

Deep Fried Snickers looks very scary.

Walnut Whips, OTOH, sound like something that has to be tried.

On the Walnut Whips front, I seem to remember that there was another half-walnut in the base, under the fluffy stuff... Sundae Girl??

I think I may have discovered the ultimate Christmas present for all you chocoholics (don't forget to click on 'more pictures'...).

Shouldn't be any trouble finding this in the USA and Australia as well (you'll be pleased to learn...)

They have been selling them on one or all of the shopping channels this week. For some reason, every time I channel surf, I see it.

We lead a sheltered life in rural England - the shopping channels here are somewhat quiet about this product. Now you have infomed me, I can see it quickly finding its place amongst those other great inventions that now occupy deep corners of kitchen cupboards - like the Brevill Sandwich Toaster and George Foreman's Electric Grill - not to mention those machines that made sparking drinks (damn, I said I wouldn't mention them...!)

Saw one at my local CVS this morning too.

I'm pretty sure I saw the chocolate fountain on QVC this week also. Interesting device, but despite my love for chocolate I know I have no need for one.

I would like to have a cotton candy maker, though, especially for those long winter nights when cotton candy would be just thing (I think our British friends would call it spun sugar).

Do not mock the George Foreman Grill. It is the greatest invention since the waffle iron.

And now you've also got me thinking how good it would be to make a toasted cheese and bacon sandwich in my sandwich iron.

No, I do not have a turkey fryer or a Popiel Showtime Rotisserie. Or a bread machine.

Limited kitchen cabinet space here in the apt.