Chocolate

rlrose328 · 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?!?!?!

McQ · 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?!?!?!

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!

Tom62 · 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.

Mister Joy · 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.

rlrose328 · 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. :-)

Whitney · October 28, 2007, 05:15:44 PM

I'm not that big of a chocolate fan....but I do like Herhey's

chris · October 28, 2007, 06:46:47 PM

Such esoteric tastes! I shall sympathize while munching on a twix.

Justice · 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!

rlrose328 · 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.

Tom62 · 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.

SabineMaia · October 28, 2007, 09:02:02 PM

Mmmm, Ritter Sport dark chocolate bars.

Mmmm, Cocoa Camino bittersweet chocolate bars.

ryanvc76 · 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.

rlrose328 · 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!

SteveS · October 29, 2007, 05:46:47 PM

Chocolate. Goes best in stout. :wink:

rlrose328 · 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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