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Can we expect the deployment of US troops?

• krapp 12y ago
  I wouldn't worry about it. The US doesn't know what actual chocolate is, they won't even notice its absence.
  • adventured 12y ago
    Weak attempt at being funny. In fact, just about every grocery store in America has actual chocolate for sale. The US consumes immense amounts of all types.
    • _wmd 12y ago
      That's not actual chocolate, that's cocoa flavored sugar
      • maaku 12y ago
        The joke is that Americans only eat cocoa flavored sugar, such as is produced by the big commercial candy factories here. The GP pointed out that at any American store will sell you fine, refined chocolates, including (by implication)i mports from Europe, Asia, and South America. What was your point?
    • arethuza 12y ago
      Chocolate in the US does rather odd if you are not used to it - apparently this is due to a fondness there for the taste of a small amount of butyric acid in milk chocolate. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hershey_bar http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hershey_bar
      • zzleeper 12y ago
        First time I tried an american chocolate (hersheys) I literally threw it away, as it smelled like poo. Only later I realized they all do :/ This may be the reason..
        • ScottBurson 12y ago
          I've always disliked Hershey's milk chocolate. I didn't know why either; this must be the reason. We do have some excellent American chocolate, though: http://www.fearlesschocolate.com/ http://www.fearlesschocolate.com/
      • lobster_johnson 12y ago
        Of course, for their part, Europeans -- especially the Dutch, Finns and all of Scandinavia -- are very fond of ammonium chloride, used to make salty liquorice (often called salmiakki), which Americans generally seem to detest. What people grow up with matters a lot to what they find palatable.
    • Al-Khwarizmi 12y ago
      Quite accurate attempt at being funny, I'd say. In fact, of course actual chocolate is available in America, but most of the chocolate consumed there has such a low purity that it wouldn't even be legal to call it chocolate in other countries. In fact, the article itself mentions 10% cocoa content as being typical for milk chocolate. In Europe, the minimum required by law for milk chocolate is 25%. This kind of thing is why I wouldn't like TTIP to be ratified...
      • nly 12y ago
        Quoting[0]: "In the UK, chocolate must contain at least 20% cocoa solids. In the US, on the other hand, cocoa solids need only make up 10%. A Cadbury Dairy Milk bar contains 23% cocoa solids, whereas a Hershey bar contains just 11%." So both pretty close to the minimums. As a Brit, I personally don't like Cadbury Dairy Milk, far too coarse and sweet. When it comes to milk, I prefer the creamier and smoother brands. But then, to me chocolate isn't an everyday or even regular thing at all. When you look at dark chocolate you're looking at anything from 70 to 99%. When you get to about 85%, chocolate becomes a completely different experience. [0] http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/8414488.stm http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/8414488.stm
        • masklinn 12y ago
          > When you look at dark chocolate you're looking at anything from 70 to 99%. Not that I disagree qualitatively (quite the opposite), but legally neither the EU nor the FDA have any such category, their highest categories are at 35% cocoa (respectively "chocolate" and "bittersweet chocolate")
          • nly 12y ago
            Yeah I should have said "up to" 70 - 99%. The 70% stuff from Lindt is somewhere around my preference level. Funny you should mention 35%... Bournville (famous UK brand, now owned by Cadbury Kraft) is 36%. I still find it far too sweet.
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  • mkaziz 12y ago
    This. I adore Cadbury's for example, but apparently Hershey's has a right to that brand in the US, and you have to go to an international store and pay an arm and a leg to get a genuine Cadbury chocolate.
    • MrBuddyCasino 12y ago
      Not to rain on your parade, but as someone who grew up near Switzerland, thats where the good stuff comes from. Cadbury is decent though. On a related note, I have always wondered why food quality is so different by region. For example, these are some categories where the good variety is hard to get in other countries: - belgian beer - swiss chocolate - italian mozzarella In this day and age where goods are shipped for almost nothing around the world, why do they still manage to sell inferior products without having a foreign competitor out-competing them with the better product? Is the foods market simply too price sensitive? Barriers to market entry too high?
      • mkaziz 12y ago
        Can you recommend some good brands I could order online?
    • 100timesthis 12y ago
      Not This. Cadbury's is just mud sold as chocolate, I can't even describe how bad it is.
      • yitchelle 12y ago
        But if your choice is limited, Cadbury's is not so bad. When I lived in Australia, the number of chocolate that I choose form is abysmal. There were offerings from Nestle, Cadbury's and some local offerings. The European chocolate like Lindt are quite expensive and are treated as luxury items.
      • mkaziz 12y ago
        I grew up on it ... I like it. :) It's not Lindor Truffle, but it's good, solid chocolate.
• weegy 12y ago
  They are running out of chocolate, not chicken mcnuggets.