Title: Chocolate
Post by: rlrose328 on October 28, 2007, 12:23:14 AM
Post by: rlrose328 on October 28, 2007, 12:23:14 AM
I'm craving chocolate today and I'm so bummed... our Target has stopped carrying Ritter Sport Biscuit bars!!!!!
Wow, first I don't get the job and now, no Ritter Sport Biscuits! Oh... and I'm evil because I was born the end of March. Will the MADNESS NEVER END?!?!?!
:lol:
Wow, first I don't get the job and now, no Ritter Sport Biscuits! Oh... and I'm evil because I was born the end of March. Will the MADNESS NEVER END?!?!?!
:lol:
Title: Re: Chocolate
Post by: McQ on October 28, 2007, 05:05:16 AM
Post by: McQ on October 28, 2007, 05:05:16 AM
Quote from: "rlrose328"I'm craving chocolate today and I'm so bummed... our Target has stopped carrying Ritter Sport Biscuit bars!!!!!
Wow, first I don't get the job and now, no Ritter Sport Biscuits! Oh... and I'm evil because I was born the end of March. Will the MADNESS NEVER END?!?!?!
:lol:
Rose...just a thought. There is a wonderful, heavenly (pardon the religious reference) chocolate out there...Lindt chocolate bars. You can find pure bliss with the Lindt 70% cocoa and 85% cocoa bars. These are for real, honest to goodness, chocoholics. No sissies allowed! They are bitter by normal standards. But they are what real chocolate is all about.
My local grocery store didn't carry them, so I made a request for them. They got them in stock and have been selling them like mad ever since!
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Post by: Tom62 on October 28, 2007, 03:12:36 PM
Post by: Tom62 on October 28, 2007, 03:12:36 PM
Lindt chocolate is ok, but chocolate heaven can only be reached in Belgium. Very decent chocolates are made by Leonidas, but try to get hold of the Neuhaus pralines instead. They are expensive but absolutely fantastic. Beware however of Godiva, which you can buy at airports, their chocolate is good, but overpriced.
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Post by: Mister Joy on October 28, 2007, 03:24:04 PM
Post by: Mister Joy on October 28, 2007, 03:24:04 PM
Green and Black's dark espresso chocolate is my fav. I've never like Lindt. Everyone here loves Cadbury's, but that stuff is awful. In France they call it 'chocolate flavoured candy', it's so synthetic.
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Post by: rlrose328 on October 28, 2007, 03:50:34 PM
Post by: rlrose328 on October 28, 2007, 03:50:34 PM
McQ: I've had Lindt and didn't see the big fuss... now that you mention it, the bitterness was a distraction. I like my chocolate creamy and milky. I'm not a fan of dark chocolate at all, though a local diabetic bakery makes a KILLER eclaire with dark chocolate on the top and the creamiest filling I've ever had. It works because the creaminess of the filling counteracts the bitterness of the dark chocolate very nicely. (Am I putting too much thought into this whole chocolate thing?)
Tom2: I do not like Godiva at all, probably because they use hazelnut praline in so many of the pieces and I don't like hazelnuts. Peanuts, yes. cashew, yes. Almonds, sometimes. Hazelnuts, not so much. I'd LOVE to find some Belgian chocolate... I hear it's excellent. Perhaps I'll hit World Market... they probably have it.
Mister Joy: Don't care for Cadbury's either. Wow, seems I don't like more than I DO like, eh? Hershey's and Cadbury's aren't chocolate to me... the taste is just too off. And Hershey's uses to much wax, it's just hideous.
I like Russell Stover, See's and Ritter the best, but right now, the craving is VERY specific for Ritter Sport butter biscuit. I double-checked the web last night and found many places will sell them by the case... but I don't know if I want that kind of temptation around on a regular basis. It's um... that time of the month... and... well... I'm one of those women who really NEED whatever it is in chocolate. It's a craving that is just insane and will not be satisfied by anything but the specific thing. The craving will go away in a few days... but why waste a good opportunity (excuse) to have chocolate. :-)
Tom2: I do not like Godiva at all, probably because they use hazelnut praline in so many of the pieces and I don't like hazelnuts. Peanuts, yes. cashew, yes. Almonds, sometimes. Hazelnuts, not so much. I'd LOVE to find some Belgian chocolate... I hear it's excellent. Perhaps I'll hit World Market... they probably have it.
Mister Joy: Don't care for Cadbury's either. Wow, seems I don't like more than I DO like, eh? Hershey's and Cadbury's aren't chocolate to me... the taste is just too off. And Hershey's uses to much wax, it's just hideous.
I like Russell Stover, See's and Ritter the best, but right now, the craving is VERY specific for Ritter Sport butter biscuit. I double-checked the web last night and found many places will sell them by the case... but I don't know if I want that kind of temptation around on a regular basis. It's um... that time of the month... and... well... I'm one of those women who really NEED whatever it is in chocolate. It's a craving that is just insane and will not be satisfied by anything but the specific thing. The craving will go away in a few days... but why waste a good opportunity (excuse) to have chocolate. :-)
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Post by: Whitney on October 28, 2007, 05:15:44 PM
Post by: Whitney on October 28, 2007, 05:15:44 PM
I'm not that big of a chocolate fan....but I do like Herhey's
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Post by: chris on October 28, 2007, 06:46:47 PM
Post by: chris on October 28, 2007, 06:46:47 PM
Such esoteric tastes! I shall sympathize while munching on a twix. 
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Post by: Justice on October 28, 2007, 07:40:50 PM
Post by: Justice on October 28, 2007, 07:40:50 PM
Ghirardelli chocolate is about as good as it gets, in my opinion. And it is even made in America!
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Post by: rlrose328 on October 28, 2007, 07:46:57 PM
Post by: rlrose328 on October 28, 2007, 07:46:57 PM
Ghirardelli is another one I've had... been to their factory even... and I'm not a fan. It doesn't have the right mouth feel. Russell Stover is American made and is wonderful!
I think I became a real chocolate snob when I was diagnosed with Diabetes 15 years ago. It made chocolate one of those forbidden things that I can only have very infrequently... thus, I have to make it count and I stopped buying Hershey and most other brands. I stick to the stuff that has the perfect mouth feel and creaminess because if I waste a choco-moment on something I don't like, I'll be unhappy.
I think I became a real chocolate snob when I was diagnosed with Diabetes 15 years ago. It made chocolate one of those forbidden things that I can only have very infrequently... thus, I have to make it count and I stopped buying Hershey and most other brands. I stick to the stuff that has the perfect mouth feel and creaminess because if I waste a choco-moment on something I don't like, I'll be unhappy.
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Post by: Tom62 on October 28, 2007, 08:33:55 PM
Post by: Tom62 on October 28, 2007, 08:33:55 PM
Who said that atheists don't enjoy life? Looks that we've got a lot of connaiseurs here on this forum. I must admit that I also eat the occasional Ritter Sport chocolatbars. I can get them straight from the vendingmachine in the company I work for. My favourite is the one filled with rum and raisins.
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Post by: SabineMaia on October 28, 2007, 09:02:02 PM
Post by: SabineMaia on October 28, 2007, 09:02:02 PM
Mmmm, Ritter Sport dark chocolate bars.
Mmmm, Cocoa Camino bittersweet chocolate bars.
Mmmm, Cocoa Camino bittersweet chocolate bars.
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Post by: ryanvc76 on October 28, 2007, 09:40:55 PM
Post by: ryanvc76 on October 28, 2007, 09:40:55 PM
I'd have no problem sending some chocolate towards Oregon... I don't eat alot of it, but I think we have some pretty good stuff here in Germany. Belgium does have the best, but thats one hell of a drive! We have a million kinds of Ritter Sport over here - what kind do you like? Another common brand here is Milka, which I like too.
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Post by: rlrose328 on October 29, 2007, 02:21:35 AM
Post by: rlrose328 on October 29, 2007, 02:21:35 AM
I found some of my Ritter Sport Butter Biscuits! Woohoo! After muuuuuch searching on the web last night, I found that Trader Joe's carry Ritter and most carry the Biscuits. Lo and behold, mine does! So I grabbed 8 of those suckers and stashed them away for my future choco-moments.
I also found that Cost Plus World Market carries them as well, but went to TJs first.
Thanks to all and sundry for the recommendations on other brands. I haven't seen Milka before, but I'll check Cost Plus the next time I'm at the mall.
Another candy that's WONDERFUL is Japanese hard candies in plum and apricot. The flavor is SO INTENSE, much more intense than anything American made. We go to a market called Uwajamaya, an everything-Asian (and some European) market close-by. I think I found the mini-Ritters there once, but not the full-sized ones. But those Japanese hard candies... wow. We have them in a big cookie jar on top of the fridge and the last two bags have lasted about 6 months because we eat them so seldom... but it's hard to not have one whenever we look up!
I also found that Cost Plus World Market carries them as well, but went to TJs first.
Thanks to all and sundry for the recommendations on other brands. I haven't seen Milka before, but I'll check Cost Plus the next time I'm at the mall.
Another candy that's WONDERFUL is Japanese hard candies in plum and apricot. The flavor is SO INTENSE, much more intense than anything American made. We go to a market called Uwajamaya, an everything-Asian (and some European) market close-by. I think I found the mini-Ritters there once, but not the full-sized ones. But those Japanese hard candies... wow. We have them in a big cookie jar on top of the fridge and the last two bags have lasted about 6 months because we eat them so seldom... but it's hard to not have one whenever we look up!
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Post by: SteveS on October 29, 2007, 05:46:47 PM
Post by: SteveS on October 29, 2007, 05:46:47 PM
Chocolate. Goes best in stout. :wink:
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Post by: rlrose328 on October 29, 2007, 05:54:37 PM
Post by: rlrose328 on October 29, 2007, 05:54:37 PM
Quote from: "SteveS"Chocolate. Goes best in stout. :wink:
Joe and I just saw a "How It's Made" the other night that showed a chocolate beer being made... I think it was Sam Adams, but I'm not sure. They used Sharffenberger chocolate dibs in the brew. That's the brand of chocolate Joe uses for baking! We had to go to a specialty store to get it a few years ago and now, it's at Albertsons.
We've been looking for the beer in the local markets but haven't yet found it... guess we'll have to go to a specialty store for that, too. I checked Trader Joe's yesterday... not there.
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Post by: Mister Joy on October 29, 2007, 08:22:27 PM
Post by: Mister Joy on October 29, 2007, 08:22:27 PM
Quote from: "SteveS"Chocolate. Goes best in stout.
Nooo. Don't much care for that. Chocolate with cream and Irish whiskey, though... now that's nice. And yeah I know it's incredibly girly but then so's this entire topic... and for my slightly better excuse, it does make a great hair of the dog 8)
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Post by: SteveS on October 30, 2007, 03:36:25 PM
Post by: SteveS on October 30, 2007, 03:36:25 PM
Don't care for chocolate stout? I'm surprised. I think they're quite good, as long as you keep the chocolate to a reasonable level - and brew it in with the beer using unsweetened baker's chocolate, of course.
Eh - to each their own I guess.
Eh - to each their own I guess.
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Post by: Mister Joy on October 30, 2007, 10:43:34 PM
Post by: Mister Joy on October 30, 2007, 10:43:34 PM
Well, to be fair, the only chocolate stout I've actually tried is my cousin's the Christmas before last, at this family meal, and everyone there was filling the house with vomit that night. He's pretty incompetent when it comes to brewing his own booze; though to be reasonable he's 16 and he's only been doing it for two years. Still... I've only been doing it for 5 and only one person has ever thrown up after drinking my wine (three and a half bottles of it within about an hour - such a waste).
It put me off the idea all together though, as you can imagine. :lol: The thought of it makes me feel slightly ill.
It put me off the idea all together though, as you can imagine. :lol: The thought of it makes me feel slightly ill.
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Post by: SteveS on October 31, 2007, 02:53:10 PM
Post by: SteveS on October 31, 2007, 02:53:10 PM
Haha! Well - seeing as how you have such a very well grounded reason, I can't help but understand. I had an experience like this with the liquor Kahlua - its not bad in and of itself - but the drunkest I've ever been was my 19th birthday (yeah, underage) when I drank many concoctions called "Mind Erasers" that included Kahlua in the list of intoxicants. The drink was true to its name, although thankfully my mind wasn't permanently erased. But still....
I woke up from a comatose state on the bathroom floor of the local Steak & Shake because a police officer was kicking my leg and telling me to get up. There was vomit all over the place, and I'm sure it was mine.
This unpleasant experience has given me a life-long aversion to Kahlua, even though it really wasn't the Kahlua's fault. Sigh - live and learn I guess. I've been happily lit many times since, but never to that ridiculous of a level. I guess everyone has to do it once and get it out of their system!
I woke up from a comatose state on the bathroom floor of the local Steak & Shake because a police officer was kicking my leg and telling me to get up. There was vomit all over the place, and I'm sure it was mine.
This unpleasant experience has given me a life-long aversion to Kahlua, even though it really wasn't the Kahlua's fault. Sigh - live and learn I guess. I've been happily lit many times since, but never to that ridiculous of a level. I guess everyone has to do it once and get it out of their system!