Is Ferrero Rocher the Olive Garden of Chocolate?

I always get internally offended if someone tries to offer me it on the Holidays.

Get over yourself prisspot. You're lucky anyone offers you anything with an attitude like that.

Almond Roca is similar.

Anything that can be purchased from Walgreen’s is, at best, a mediocre gift.

R1 Probably eats at Olive Garden

Ferrero Rocher, he is doing well

Honestly, this must be a troll post. Sorry, honey, R1 is right.

People still eat chocolate?

I'm old, fat, ugly and effeminate and my only defence is to look down my nose at other peoples' choice in confectionary. I'm sooooo superior because I deem Ferrero Rocher second rate.

You are eating too many at a time OP. Just eat one a day, not the entire container all in one sitting.

I found See's chocolate to be less wonderful than some of you cunts had promised. A friend gave me a box this week, and it tasted sweet rather than like chocolate. I don't have enough experience with Olive Garden to deem it Olive Gardenesque, but it was not the superlative chocolate I'd been led to expect.

I like their Mon Chéri and the ones on the left in the picture (sorry, the name in the US escapes me).

Now (if you have several days) you can make 'em yourself!

Isn't that the chocolate with the "we don't sell our products in the summer" gimmick?

I think the problem is the nuts, very stale. Same with Almond Roca, stale nuts.

R12: Yes, they are.

They are very popular in Spain, but i prefer swiss brands like Lindt

I was given a big hollow Ferraro Rocher egg with chocolates inside it. The chocolate that made up the egg was very waxy and flavorless. I think they added ingredients to ensure it would stay intact as an edible container. I haven’t eaten the inside chocolates yet, but discarded most of the chocolate egg container because it tasted like brown Crayon.

because it tasted like brown Crayon. — Do you eat crayons regularly?

Try Austrian chocolate. You will never go back.

Hershey's is the Dollar Tree of Chocolate. Just awful.

Agree R18. It should be illegal for Hershey’s to be called chocolate. It’s a slab of waxy disgusting-ness.

Even their dark chocolate R9?

At one time they were classy but that was a long time ago. Like Ghirardelli Chocolate was classy but now it's just common..

Even Godiva, which at one time was very high class, is now common because Oprah said it was her favorite and exposed it to the commercial masses

R21 was the person in high school who would only like a band until they got popular, then say the band “sold out.”

But Hershey doesn't pretend to be something it's not.

They sell their chocolate as if it were edible, r23, which it is not.

An office frau I work with gave everyone in the department a tiny gift bag with 5 Ferrero Roche candies and a handmade, hand-decorated note card with a personalized message inside. Generic inspirational BS but sweet. She's a total suburban cheeseball and the entire office was laughing at her after she left early to catch a train. I died inside a little that day. I'm a bitter cunt as anyone but how can they be so cruel?

Office culture is just middle school all over again.

I like Olive Garden. It's fine.

OP, what happens when you are "internally offended"? It sounds painful, possibly messy and embarrassing.

r15 looks down her nose at Ferrero Roche but eats crayons?

I like my chocolate plain. My favorite is Guittard. I don't eat it often, as such intense, pure chocolate gives me a headache.

OP being internally offended at the suggestion of Ferrero Roche

I always get internally offended if someone tries to offer me it on the Holidays.

I scowl, purse my lips, flare my nostrils, throw my scarf melodramatically over my shoulder, turn and walk away.

HOW DARE YOU offer me Ferrero Roche!

I was gifted some Gudrun chocolates this Christmas, and it's the most delicious chocolate I've ever eaten.

I don’t mind the taste of Rocher but I’m glad it really only shows up once a year

R19, I agree. After tasting good chocolate, I’m amazed that people will still tolerate the wax that is Hershey’s

You're a beach op! 😎

FFS OP, you'd also whinge and bitch if you weren't offered anything

I remember thinking they were so exquisite and luxe when I was a kid. I was crushed when I realized they were sold in drugstores and supermarkets.

F.R. is disgusting! R2 get over yourself. Almond Roca is good. If you know of something similar and more "high end" please recommend it.

^$30 per pound or more for Almond Roca is not inexpensive

R39

I prefer a YULE LOG.

Monsieur, with Ferrero Rocher you are really spoiling us.

They do really well for being in business this long.

If they sell it at the dollar store it probably isn't high quality.

It's shitty milk chocolate with rice crispies.

FFS who cares! Don't whine about it, just don't fuckin eat it!

Maybe you are getting a crappy Ferrero made in or for America. In Europe they are tasty but yeah mass market treats.

I see big American cities have Teuscher now.

Save your dollars and go there, you pretentious proles. They don't have hazelnut balls, but you can get a 40 dollah "box of rusty tools".

If you can't spell it correctly (there is an R at the end -- Rocher), then your opinion doesn't count.

R25, it was sweet, and your office mates are cunts. The handmade and individualized cards means she put time and thought into the gifts, and isn’t that supposed to be what it’s all about? And I guess nobody could stop and think that the giver could be on a tight budget?

If you want to know what the highest quality chocolate tastes like try to get ahold of Venezuelan "El Rey".

Ferrero Roche are delightful, affordable confections produced for the masses.

OP is the stereotypical hiper critical, impossible to please queen that everybody loathes and please R25 tell me where you work so I never go anywhere near that toxic den of cunts.

R51 Godiva was purchased by a foreign corporation. Since then it's quality has suffered and they used GMO ingredients! I'm very disappointed! Ghirardelli is good, IMHO.

First eat the chocolate, then open the ball and lick the nougat creme. Delicious.

How about Lindt and Lindor?

Where is your evidence that genetically modified foods cause any harm at all or a decline in quality, R52? I guess you just have your prejudices to go on.

R54 Their US products are just PR; they use artificial ingredients. However, i like the Lindt Cocoa Butter Coconut bar. No such thing as "white chocolate".

No to FR, but that’s probably because I’m not a big fan of hazelnuts.

Give me Lindt Lindor milk chocolate truffles and I can’t stop myself.

r33, if it's still Gudrun, it's old- their new name is L'Heritage Chocolates.

Actually Trader Joes makes a decent truffle and bars.

What do people think of "La Maison du Chocolat"? They sell them at Bergdorf Goodman so they must be good, right?

Weren't these game show consolation prizes for awhile in the 1980s and 1990s? Maybe they used to be good but have gone downhill since then. That happened to a lot of brand-name chocolates.

Aldi's chocolates (store brand Moser-Roth) are surprisingly good. Ferrero Rocher is good. Hershey is inedible wax, especially since they started adding PGPR as an emulsifier. Tootsie Rolls are just chocolate that gave up :)

^Germans have incredible chocolate. I LOVE Milka chocolate and Ritter Sport chocolate. Aldi often sells quality products without the expensive brand names.

Believe it or not, there is a factory in West Virginia that makes delicious Swiss chocolate.

Holl's, r63?

Yes, thank you!

GOOD CHOCOLATE. HOLL'S. CHARLESTON, WV

Hey guys, try Choceur chocolate. I think it's made in Germany. Not expensive. I also like Dove dark chocolate.

The great thing about chocolate is that it looks exactly the same going out of you as it did going into you.

R54: Lindt Excellence 85% is ok. I consume one square a day. However, any Lindt product under 85% cocoa solids has too much sugar. The 90% is dutched (processed with alkali), so very little flavor and almost no antioxidants. Never tried 99%. Maximum cocoa solids in Lindor is 60%, has too much sugar, and tastes closer to milk chocolate so I never buy it.

R51: El Rey is on par with Valhrona at around 70% cocoa solids, and tastes pretty good. These would be my go-to chocolates for special occasions.

I think Toffifay tastes better than Rocher, but both are mediocre at best.

[69] you sound like an unbearable cunty snob.

Some of the keto chocolates I've seen at places like Whole Foods are not bad. Certainly better than most mass-marketed sludge.

Choceur is also an Aldi brand, r67

Thanks, R69, for the good information!

Newman's Own is another inexpensive chocolate brand I like.

R71: Mary! But do enjoy your Dollar Store confections, dear.

I haven't eaten a Ferrero Rocher since the youtube video came out showing worms in them.

video added

Cecily Strong as Ivana Trump (SNL, "I Am First Lady"). The way she eats the Ferrero Rocher makes it look delicious. However, we know it's not delicious.

Godiva still seems gourmet to me

[quote].Even Godiva, which at one time was very high class, is now common because Oprah said it was her favorite and exposed it to the commercial masses

Godiva used to be a Belgian maker of chocolates that used absolutely fresh ingredients and was a byword for quality. Their milk chocolates had to be kept in the fridge to stop from spoiling. The company was sold to a Turkish operation and the manufacturing shifted there. It is just cheap supermarket chocolate living on past glories now.

The other well-known Belgian chocolatier Leonidas is still family owned.

R81 Godiva was owner by Campbell’s Soup for a time, when did it get sold?

This Godiva slander hurts me. It still tastes good and I still gift it! I hope the people I gifted Godiva this year don’t think I have bad taste

Godiva has been a total rip-off and not high quality for 25 years. I refer you to the Dime Store Perfume thread for further items you should add to your list of "not what they used to be". Merry Christmas!

It still soo good me

Ferrero Rocher is not the worst thing I've put in my mouth, but it's not a fine quality chocolate either. The holiday advertising image of towering cones of gold-wrapped confections offered with a rich, plummy voice, "Ferrero Rocher? Ferrero Rocher?" are slightly amusing for posing a middling product as a luxury but it seems to have worked for the brand.

I wouldn't take deep offense at being offered one, maybe only a laugh if it were from a butler brandishing a silver (gold-flashed?) tray of them.

I told you people about poor Godiva quality. It was sold in 2007 to a Turkish company. Since then it has not been the same. When i was a boy, my mother took me to a mall often that has a Godiva boutique that had fresh chocolates; there were delicious.

R55 You're a nimrod and a troll! Yes, GMOs are dangerous! They do not belong in the human body! I'm not having that debate again! Go straight to Hades!

R52

[quote]he handmade and individualized cards means she put time and thought into the gifts, and isn’t that supposed to be what it’s all about?

No, it just means she had leftovers from some project she was making and selling on Etsy

Ferrero Rocher uses hazelnuts, almost all which comes from Turkey.

Turkey uses slave child labor, to harvest these and any socially concsioius person with an ounce of class and soul would not purchase any product with hazelnuts in it

But you all go and enjoy your chocolates made by 21st century child slave labor

Ferrero Rocher? Didn't she run for vice president and lose?

[quote] I told you people about poor Godiva quality.

"You people"?

r91

Not only "you people," but SPECIFICALLY you

R92 LOL, thanks. I don't mean any harm. Bitchy bitches.

Hersheys is a very specific type of chocolate candy. If you grew up with it, it’s fine but otherwise I’m not sure why somebody would come to it as an adult. Also, great chocolate can be eaten as just a chocolate bar but her she’s had a very broad line of bars and the milk chocolate bar was just an option. Their special dark bar would probably be more to peoples likings but again, it’s cheap candy. Sees candy isn’t great but it is fresh.

A lot of what you pay for in candy is freshness. There’s a lot of tastes and textures that can’t be achieved in something that needs to be able to sit on the shelf for six months.

R94 Hershey chocolate is bitter. Many chocolates are "smoother" because their acids are reduced with alkali. There's controversy about that, with which i disagree. When i bake, i use Dutched cocoa. Otherwise, my baked goods are lousy. Eating chocolate is different.

Turkey uses slave child labor, to harvest these and any socially concsioius person with an ounce of class and soul would not purchase any product with hazelnuts in it

ahahahahahhahahahaahahhaahahaha

Turkey uses slave child labor, to harvest these and any socially concsioius person with an ounce of class and soul would not purchase any product with hazelnuts in it

Oh sweetie, don't ever travel, don't ever buy anything from a country that's not your own, in fact, don't ever leave your house if you're that pretentious and socially conscious!

You old prisspot queens wince at the thought of Ferrero Rocher but wouldn't think twice about eating the arse of rough trade!

. I consume one square a day

In your mothers' basement, in your caftan, singing The Trolley Song

Ridiculed in Europe for a generation for their campy "Monsieur, with these Ferrero Rocher you are really spoiling us" TV commercial.

R98 rough trade? You must be eldergay! Arse? You must be a dirty Brit also!

[quote]Hershey chocolate is bitter.

Lol. Not to pull rank, but you definitely haven't tasted true bitter chocolate. Hersheys true note is SALT. Salty brown wax.

As for all those artisan specific plantation chocolates that go on about specific 'fruit notes' like wine: I've tasted dozens, and only one has lived up to the sublime claim. It's not available in America or Europe, and they don't ship, so probably not worth mentioning.

rough trade? You must be eldergay! Arse? You must be a dirty Brit also!

No, you assume I'm an eldergay and British. You also assume only the British spell 'ass' as arse.

[quote]R55 You're a nimrod and a troll! Yes, GMOs are dangerous! They do not belong in the human body! I'm not having that debate again! Go straight to Hades!

You're a complete fool who doesn't have the vaguest idea of what you're talking about. Why look for evidence when you can go on emotion? The public broadcaster where I live has a science program and they clearly stated that there is no evidence that GMOs cause harm. Do you know what recombinant DNA technology is? Probably not. It's when they artificially insert DNA from another organism. It has many practical applications, eg. the production of clotting factors, insulin, hepatitis B vaccine, and so on. I hope you and no one you know ever uses these products because they're artificially produced so they must be dangerous.

Btw, when recombinant DNA technology was first developed in the 1970s, scientists were worried that a dangerous new organism would be unintentionally produced and it might be released from the lab accidentally and cause widespread havoc. Guess what? It never happened. But I agree with you --- going by fear and not evidence is the correct way to do things. Stick to topics you know something about, like the taste of chocolate.

I love DL so much. That an innocuous subject like chocolate can produce such shit vapors is truly amazing yet dependable.

r100, meet r42.

I love Ferrero Rocher. One of the best pralines I know.

I like FR just fine though the darker the chocolate, the better. I generally don't like milk chocolate as it's too sweet.

Ladurée, dahlings!

I like Ferraro Rocher, Merci and Norman Love. My freezer is full of ice packs from all of the 50 piece boxes I've had Fedexed overnight from Norman Love Chocolates. I'm 5'8" and 178 lbs. by the way.

r106, meet this:

All the DL queens who are crapping on about the inferiority of Ferrero Rocher spend their days swanning around their mothers' basement in their caftans pretending they're at the ambassador's reception.

R55 One additional comment, GMOs do not belong in food supplies. Their purpose in food is to make profits, not enhance food, That's why certain countries have banned it in food supplies, capiche? I did not say anything about other applications; that's your own narrow mind and prejudices at work. Please note nobody liked your post.

The change and poor quality of Godiva chocolate after it was sold was obvious to those with sensitive palates. I can taste complex dishes, determine the ingredients and recipe and recreate them. Kentucky Fried Chicken is just mass market fast food, but I deduced the ingredients of original KFC as a university student, but will not reveal the original recipe other than Colonel Sanders lied. There's one spice not found in typical American kitchens. Also, original recipe sold at KFCs today is not his. The raw chicken is supplied by Tyson premarinated in MSG, which is dangerous to certain people, so i don't eat the finished product. If you're as informed as you imply, you know MSG upsets neurotransmitters in many individuals. As i said, please troll elsewhere and go to Hades.

R52/R56/R87

r113 Sweetie, you take yourself, these comments, and DataLounge waaaaaaaay too seriously. Do you have autism? What part of pointless bitchery don't you understand? You need to have a valium and a lie down before you give yourself an aneurysm.

r113 is Sheldon Cooper

Why bless your little heart R99. Mom is long dead and my parents never owned a home. There are very few basements in this part of the US. Unlike your pitiful little self, I don't own a caftan. And finally, while I am a Friend of Dorothy, I've never been a Fan of Judy.

R114 No i don't them seriously, certain bitches get under my skin. I won't have an aneurysm because i don't have hypertension or other medical problems and i don't take take drugs when i have issues. That's for losers. And i see the immature loser at R115 is back again. I blocked that bitch, so another account has been created!

[QUOTE] I deduced the ingredients of original KFC as a university student, but will not reveal the original recipe other than Colonel Sanders lied

R113 is afraid Reba's Colonel Sanders will hunt him down

r116 My parents owned several homes. Probably rented out to people like your parents. You're the pitiful one.

Awww. Did we touch a nerve, R99/R116? Poor thing.

Aspie boy thinks he knows my secret recipe?

oooh, ah, ooh, ahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha

r117 Sweetie, you might have undiagnosed autism, you don't seem to understand irony and sarcasm or when someone is making a joke. And you let these trolls upset you far too easily.

R120 Probably so. That's sad -- parents never owned a home. The DL and users target people, like that freak who stalks calls me Sheldon Cooper, whoever that is. I believe that's same freak who said he wipes his hole with alcohol wipes to be clean. What type of sicko does that?! All this so i can communicate with bi and gay men and women from the comfort of my home. Muriel and her sad team need to police this site properly. Obviously, mental health problems are not only in USA.

It's the thought that counts.

Fererro Rocher is real Italian, Olive Garden is fake Italian.

R124 LOL. R125 LOL if you say so.

r123. You should write for the tabloids aspie boy Sheldon, only reporting half truths. I said I clean my butt hole with alcohol wipes in preparation to be rimmed as a courtesy to the guy who is riming me. I guess all sex is foreign to you, or you like the taste of shit.

Why do people come to the DL expecting it to be The Ladies Home Journal or Town and Country, all polite and prim and proper? It's DataLounge FFS, it's a shit fight of nastiness.

R59, I really like La Maison du Chocolat.

Also good is the chocolate from Glacier Confections, Jacques Torres and Neuhaus Belgian Chocolate

[quote]Is Ferrero Rocher the Olive Garden of Chocolate?

They are worse, they are like the Lipton Tea of chocolate.

R130 LOL. Chris Evert made big bucks endorsing Lipton tea. The company once sponsored a huge tournament in Miami. I wonder if she really drank that? I never drink that as an adult. BTW, thanks to those who recommended the chocolatier in West Virgina. Jackie Kennedy ordered White House crystal from WV because it's always been a poor state.

OP, I too was very disappointed upon 1st trying Ferrero Rocher. Loved Hershey's when I was very young. It's dramatically changed for the worse like most American chocolate and candy. Definitely not the same product at all.

Was given a box of Whitman chocolates for Christmas. Not as overly sweet as Sees and Ethel M's. Wish I could try some of the Austrian brands as I prefer very dark chocolate.

" stale nuts."

Is this affliction worse than stanksleeve?

R50, Agreed. Shame on the office manager to allow such a toxic environment at work. Proven fact, negative work environments result in drastically lowered productivity and more sick days taken. Understand it's why so many dream of having their own business.

I've seen so many office environments with unnecessarily high turnover because of lazy supervisors that won't put a stop to office BS.

R133 LOL i'd say absolutely not!

OP, It's the hydrogenated oils and fake fats and high fructose syrup that has ruined the taste of most American made chocolate. It it were higher quality chocolate you'd naturally eat much less of it too.

R134 Correct. I saw an accurate meme that said employees don't leave companies, they leave bad managers. True in my case. Personal lives, gossip and interference don't belong in a professional setting. My management wouldn't stop that. The guilty parties are usually women. They don't get the hint employees are there to work and make profits for their employer, not to carry on and make friends.

The trouble makers in the workplace are almost always women. Bet lets not go there or we'll be called misogynists.

See's is lab chocolate, not informed by such matters as taste.

[quote]I found See's chocolate to be less wonderful

Next time try their Key Lime Truffle or the dark chocolate covered almonds.

R113, Wish that I could contact you offline. I also believe MSG should be avoided whenever possible.

R114 I do not have oral-to-anal sex either way and i do not have mental defects. You're an immature animal with an obvious mental illness. See a mental health professional after you wipe your behind w/alcohol. If you have a foreskin, use it well in there also and piss off to go watch a stupid fiction program on CBS!

R141 Thanks, i'm well informed. No MSG for me. I also know about ingredients that can be combined to create MSG. The American food supply is full of toxic stuff like HFCS. I recommend the documentary called "The Men Who Made Us Fat" which i believe contains a segment on HFCS. Thanks and happy holidays.

R113

Ivana Trump loves them! See at the 3:08 mark.

Yes, we know R144. R79 already shared that EXACT same thing with us.

[quote]R55 One additional comment, GMOs do not belong in food supplies. Their purpose in food is to make profits, not enhance food, That's why certain countries have banned it in food supplies, capiche? I did not say anything about other applications; that's your own narrow mind and prejudices at work. Please note nobody liked your post.

You clicked w/w on your own post four times. Whoopee. Whether someone likes my post has nothing to do with whether I'm right.

I'm pretty sure the correct spelling is "capisce". Can't you get anything right?

No, no, no. Your argument isn't consistent. There are no naturally occurring bacteria with the gene for human insulin. Organisms produced by recombinant DNA technology are an abomination, according to you. Insulin goes into your body. Blood clotting factor goes into your body. What's the difference from GMO foods? Certain countries have banned GMO foods because politicians have bowed to public hysteria on the issue. Where's your evidence that GMO foods are harmful? Link to an article from a reputable journal. Let me guess -- big corporations are suppressing the evidence.

Are you an antivaxxer too? I'm embarrassed by your ignorance.

I do not have oral-to-anal sex either way and i do not have mental defects. You're an immature animal with an obvious mental illness. See a mental health professional after you wipe your behind w/alcohol. If you have a foreskin, use it well in there also and piss off to go watch a stupid fiction program on CBS!

Oh Sheldon honey, you're just so much fun! You don't have sex with anyone, ever, period. Never have. You're an incel. You're too concerned about your MSG and Colonel Sander's secret herbs and spices to engage in real human contact, that's why you come on here. I'm sure if I told a health professional that I use alcohol wipes on my behind before sexual relations they'd tell me I was being responsible.

'if you have a foreskin, use it well in there also and piss off to go watch a stupid fiction program on CBS' Your grammatically poor insults have me crying like a baby Sheldon. You're a witless, immature animal. The witless part I can forgive you, your autism would prevent you from being witty or humorous. You're biggest problem Sheldon is that you take this shit seriously!

Sheldon, you don't eat this because it has bad things in it, you don't eat that because it has bad things in it, what the fuck do you eat?!

#your. Sheldon, you're making me spell things wrong. See the affect you have on me? I think it's love.

[quote]The change and poor quality of Godiva chocolate after it was sold was obvious to those with sensitive palates. I can taste complex dishes, determine the ingredients and recipe and recreate them. Kentucky Fried Chicken is just mass market fast food, but I deduced the ingredients of original KFC as a university student, but will not reveal the original recipe other than Colonel Sanders lied. There's one spice not found in typical American kitchens. Also, original recipe sold at KFCs today is not his. The raw chicken is supplied by Tyson premarinated in MSG, which is dangerous to certain people, so i don't eat the finished product. If you're as informed as you imply, you know MSG upsets neurotransmitters in many individuals. As i said, please troll elsewhere and go to Hades.

You're probably consuming GMO foods all the time. I'll bet if a product contains GMOs, it doesn't even appear on the label. Hahaha.

Sheldon spends his entire life going to great lengths to avoid food with GMO and MSG to the point of obsession...then gets hit by a bus,

Well this thread was fun until the two cunts started arguing with each other.

r152 You'll be missed

R152 i don't argue and blocked that immature child again. I don't have more to say Ferrero Rocher other than it's bargain basement candy. Don't waste your money.

r154 Shelly, you haven't blocked me, I'm right here. I can still see all your posts. Are you imagining things again?

Shelly, isn't 'immature child' a tautology? Or, I suppose, one can be a mature child. I bet you were a precocious, mature child. Your mother was probably your best friend I imagine. She helped to keep the MSG and GMO away. And she played with you when all the neighbourhood children ran from you and thought you were weird. She also made sure you never went near a public commode. Haha, commode. Who has used the word 'commode' in the last 50 years?! I bet you never gave your mother Ferrero Rocher.

[quote]Well this thread was fun until the two cunts started arguing with each other.

I know. Arguing isn't allowed on DL.

R148, Not Sheldon but I try to eat food that is as natural as possible ie not processed. Many have stomach distress from various additives.

Read the labels on purchased desserts or make them yourself. Why do you think European cookies and most chocolate tastes so much better than American versions? Can't you taste the difference of fake food?

Also you'll naturally eat much smaller portions of highly flavorful, spiced dishes. Don't you want to taste chocolate instead of fake sweetener and hydrogenated fat?

[quote]Lol. Not to pull rank, but you definitely haven't tasted true bitter chocolate. Hersheys true note is SALT. Salty brown wax.

Hershey's calling card is vomit. It literally tastes of vomit. It is because Hershey's lipolyses the milk in its chocolate due to a misunderstanding of the recipe of some European chocolate it initially set up to emulate. That produces butyric acid and makes Hershey's smell and taste of puke.

If you've been brought up with it you won't really notice and Hershey's will just take you back to your childhood. Give it to anyone outside of the US for the first time and don't be surprised when they spit it out in disgust.

Happy Holidays, R152, and may your food be laced with many GMOs.

See this, r145. And thanks for playing self-appointed hall monitor. We really need wretched, pus-filled cunts like you.

OP I ADORE YOU!

Your heading alone is so good I plan on using it in "real" life conversations.

And yes, the chocolate is poorly constructed crap. R1 is beyond vulgar, and at best, helpless.

[quote]R59 I really like La Maison du Chocolat. Also good is the chocolate from Glacier Confections, Jacques Torres and Neuhaus Belgian Chocolate

Thanks R129. I'm going to try some La Maison du Chocolat. I have to use MyUSAddress because they won't ship directly to Canada. The way that American and European online retailers snub Canada is an outrage and should be taken up at the U.N.

In addition to talking shit (and you two know who you are) you're all talking about eating shit: F-R is dreck. Hershey's is dreck. Godiva is overpriced dreck.

L.A. Burdicks, on the other hand, is about as good as chocolate gets. Which it should be at $68 to $74 a pound.

R113 Was the secret ingredient somewhat rare to American kitchens dried Ginger by chance? I have a recipe that claims this is the one most cannot identify. I've made it before, and it tasted like KFC, only better.

Ginger is a secrect ingredient in many sausages too, especially Bratwursts. Hardly anyone is aware it's there, but when it's missing, the wursts don't taste quite right.

R163 as someone who works in e-commerce, the reason many retailers don’t ship to Canada is all the customs paperwork involved.

R7, Ferrer Roche IS second rate chocolate - mass produced crap sold at chain drug stores - don't take it so personally!

Ferrero Rocher tastes just fine. Anyone who doesn't like it is a pretentious twit.

Even Godiva, which at one time was very high class, is now common because Oprah said it was her favorite and exposed it to the commercial masses

Never a truer word was spoken. I remember when Godiva was quality.

[quote]R163 as someone who works in e-commerce, the reason many retailers don’t ship to Canada is all the customs paperwork involved.

I see. I just assumed Canada wasn't a big enough market for certain companies to bother.

R170 well there’s that, too. If the market were big enough, brands would maintain a dedicated warehouse in Canada and ship directly from there.

Alcohol wipes aren’t enough.

But they could be the finishing touch after 2 thorough scrubbings with an antibacterial/antiseptic soap using a washcloth and 2 corresponding thorough rinsings with a spray attachment.

Don’t scrub yourself raw, however. That leads to small cuts which can lead to infection. Dried out skin can also be itchy, rimming should be an occasional (if at all) occurrence.

Where's Sheldon? I miss him

I want to see the thread for which r72's post was meant.

[quote]Some of the keto chocolates I've seen at places like Whole Foods are not bad.

Can someone please tell us [italic]what[/italic] in the name of all that is good and cacao what "keto chocolates" are?

R140, I can't swear to it, but I may have eaten some of the Key Lime Truffles. At least two types had citrus flavor of some sort, and one of them looked just like the Key Lime Truffle in this set of pics.

keto chocolates

low sugar

I used to like the white-chocolate-coconut ones. Rafaello, I think they’re called.

It’s been a looooooong time since I’ve had a chocolate I thought was any good. There are some nice artisanal chocolates at Whole Foods. There is a brand called Scharffen Berger that I thought was good.

Well, why didn't he [italic]say[/italic] "low sugar" instead of forcing us to follow him down the douchebag jargon trail? It's almost as dumb as the "no knees" moron's language.

Has anyone tried Chocolove or Endangered Species brands of dark chocolate bars at Whole Foods? They contain nuts, coconut, or fruit and are on sale. I want to taste chocolate and not an overly rich, high fat product. Dislike See's and Ethel M's for that reason.

Guittard Chocolate Cocoa Rouge Cocoa Powder (Unsweetened) makes excellent brownies for chocolate lovers. Or hot chocolate with added hot water, milk, a little sugar, cinnamon.

[quote] Ferrero Rocher? Didn't she run for vice president and lose?

You must have her confused with Geraldine from [italic]The Flip Wilson Show [/italic].

[quote]Ferrero Rocher? Didn't she run for vice president and lose?

I forgot about Geraldine Ferraro. I didn't realise she had passed away.