A Warning

I quite like chocolate but it’s not something I bought that often. Sadly we received some Lindt Lindor milk chocolate at Christmas and it was the best chocolate I’ve ever tasted. It’s available as round truffles and small and large bars. The inside of all of them being a soft milk chocolate.

I’m now an addict to this insidious product. It’s best avoided unless you want to end up like me.

Vic wine,women and song have the same effect on me

H

I've been a slave to my theobromine fix since my earliest years. Partly comes from several infant years spent on the banks of the Rhine, where they know about these things. On returning to England at 6, I was already hopelessly addicted. I tried all the products of the Quaker quartet - Cadbury, Fry, Terry, Rowntree - but mostly they were just bland compared to the kick of Sarotti and Ritter. There was a bright spot in 60s and early 70s British chocolate in Gala Peters, a strong, dark milk chocolate which I haven't seen for decades now.

The Lindt 'Black Balls' are especially good, but for a practical daily fix on an established habit, the Fin Carre Finest Dark sold by Lidl is cheap, tasty, powerful and low in sugar.

Harry,

All depends on whether u r still young enough 2 b hormone - driven!

It's chocolate Jim, but not as we know it

DNB Alas the sprite willing but the body's weak all I,m afraid becoming a distant memory

H

I use that to coat the underside of the vegan florentines I make for my other half - excellent stuff. For anyone who really wants an extreme chocolate experience I recommend Kolonada hazelnut wafers layered with chocolate butter filling (or just use Nuttella) and then coat the stack with melted plain choc. Extreme choc-aholics can use the Kolonada chocolate wafers. I buy mine from Halusky.co.uk.

Any recommendations for a good drinking chocolate that isn't too sweet?

Don't go for drinking chocolate, use cocao powder. Paste a heaped teaspoon with a bit of milk and 1 spoon of brown sugar, then microwave for about 15 seconds - just enought liquify. Then add milk to suit, and microwave again if you want it hot. Simple, quick and as strong or weak as you like.

I personally wouldn't touch British milk chocolate with a bargepole of any length; cloying, yucky stuff with a minute trace of chocolate in it. Interestingly some years ago the EU was, very sensibly, planning to refuse to allow Cadbury's mile chocolate to be so described, but instead it was to be called chocolate-flavoured confectionery as it contained so little actual chocolate. Not sure what happened though.

For my money any chocolate needs to be at least 80% chocolate, and Lidl's 85% is pretty good in my book. Why, by the way, do we now see high percentage chocolate described as 'dark chocolate' rather than 'plain' which it always used to be called?

Harry,

Its :- Dirty

        Metal

        Basher

John

Edited By DMB on 15/02/2020 21:53:26

To be fair, even the cadburys' product was better than the Kraft replacements.

Best friend's dad was a senior chemist ad mackintosh's before they merged with rowntrees. He used to bring bag fulls of experimental sweets home, which got shared out to use kids.