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Every time the topic of American chocolate comes up, people talk about how disguisting it is compared to European chocolate. Have you tasted anything other than

Every time the topic of American chocolate comes up, people talk about how disguisting it is compared to European chocolate. Have you tasted anything other than Hershey's? We have excellent chocolate, even at our biggest grocery stores! (Walgreens, for instance, stocks Ghirardelli and Godiva.) And if you want something even better, every big city is bound to have a handful of chocolatiers.

barrkel 13y ago
Godiva chocolates are also dreadful and unsubtle. I tried a little bit to find edible chocolate when I was considering moving to the US. And when I want a simple chocolate bar, I'm not interested in a bitter high cocoa dark chocolate. See, it's a quality of life thing. I don't want to have to go to specialty stores to get a treat that doesn't taste like vomit at 3pm on a Thursday afternoon. I don't want to have to make my own ice cream to get a nice chocolatey flavour. I don't want to have to bake my own biscuits to get edible triple chocolate chip cookies. Etc. You get the idea.
- archagon 13y ago
  I humbly disagree, having tasted European chocolate. Godiva is pretty good, and certainly orders of magnitude better than Hershey's. Divine chocolate (Whole Foods) and Ritter Sport milk chocolate are even better. I mean, really, take your pick. There's so much variety. (EDIT: Though, in retrospect, I guess they aren't made here. But I still say that Ghirardelli and Godiva are pretty good, even if they're not the best chocolate I've ever had.)
  - mcv 13y ago
    There's also plenty of variety in European chocolate. Personally I consider Kitkat among the lowest quality. Personally I prefer stuff like Verkade (no idea how big they are abroad, but they're the giant in Netherland), or Tony Chocolonely's (small but growing fast, pioneered slavery-free chocolate).
jwdunne 13y ago
I think the issue probably comes from tourists purchasing their favourite snack bars, such as a KitKat or Mars, age being unpleasantly surprised. Here in the UK, I love these chocolate bars - definitely nothing like candle wax? This extends to more than just chocolate though. The Big Mac using mechanically recovered beef would be a big unpleasant surprise (which doesn't happen here except for the nuggets). Mix that in with cultural differences, you have plenty of horrors (I've heard egg mayo is blended in US rather than mashed together so it's chunky, which has horrified many a Brit). However, anywhere worth holidaying has great food to eat do I don't think it's fair to say its 100% bad. In my opinion, the bread in Spain sucks (unless fresh) yet I've eaten at many great restaurants and bought great snacks.

barrkel 13y ago

Godiva chocolates are also dreadful and unsubtle. I tried a little bit to find edible chocolate when I was considering moving to the US. And when I want a simple chocolate bar, I'm not interested in a bitter high cocoa dark chocolate. See, it's a quality of life thing. I don't want to have to go to specialty stores to get a treat that doesn't taste like vomit at 3pm on a Thursday afternoon. I don't want to have to make my own ice cream to get a nice chocolatey flavour. I don't want to have to bake my own biscuits to get edible triple chocolate chip cookies. Etc. You get the idea.

archagon 13y ago
I humbly disagree, having tasted European chocolate. Godiva is pretty good, and certainly orders of magnitude better than Hershey's. Divine chocolate (Whole Foods) and Ritter Sport milk chocolate are even better. I mean, really, take your pick. There's so much variety. (EDIT: Though, in retrospect, I guess they aren't made here. But I still say that Ghirardelli and Godiva are pretty good, even if they're not the best chocolate I've ever had.)
- mcv 13y ago
  There's also plenty of variety in European chocolate. Personally I consider Kitkat among the lowest quality. Personally I prefer stuff like Verkade (no idea how big they are abroad, but they're the giant in Netherland), or Tony Chocolonely's (small but growing fast, pioneered slavery-free chocolate).

jwdunne 13y ago

I think the issue probably comes from tourists purchasing their favourite snack bars, such as a KitKat or Mars, age being unpleasantly surprised. Here in the UK, I love these chocolate bars - definitely nothing like candle wax? This extends to more than just chocolate though. The Big Mac using mechanically recovered beef would be a big unpleasant surprise (which doesn't happen here except for the nuggets). Mix that in with cultural differences, you have plenty of horrors (I've heard egg mayo is blended in US rather than mashed together so it's chunky, which has horrified many a Brit). However, anywhere worth holidaying has great food to eat do I don't think it's fair to say its 100% bad. In my opinion, the bread in Spain sucks (unless fresh) yet I've eaten at many great restaurants and bought great snacks.