/ck/ - Food & Cooking

don't get her some stupid artisan shit that tastes the same as everything else but costs 10 dollars a bar, get the tried and tested chocolate that everyone loves

>>9827813
Is she fat? Don't buy fat chicks chocolate for Christmas. Speaking from experience here.

>>9827820
no american chocolate please

>>9827825
skinny

>>9827820
Everyone knows you're baiting for obsessedposting

>>9827813
buy her marabou or kinder buenos

>>9827813
I would give her something with spme permanence. She'll eat the candy bar and then forget about you. Actually, she'll probably blame you that the chocolate bar is gone.

this brand is good stuff.

https://www.chocolove.com/

once had a >75% french dark chocolate, la valhorn (something along those lines) with lavender, great aroma and taste

>>9827813
>small bar of chocolate for christmas
>girlfriend
>Recommendations?
yeah, stop being so stingy and get her a selection of chocolates. visit a chocolatier's, you're bound to have one somewhere in driving distance. get advice from them, not from a fucking imageboard on the internet

>>9827853

Seconding Buenos or Ferrero rocher's

>>9827888
Ferrero fucking sucks.

>>9827888
t. Cletus
>checked

>>9827820
why does everyone on /ck/ say Hersheys tastes bad? tastes fine to me? nothing special, but not disgusting like you guys make it out to be. are my taste buds retarded?

>>9827813
Go to a chocolatier. Get a small box of truffles or some crap like that. Don't get a fucking candy bar. That said, Milka>Hershey's.

>>9827900
>>9827901

Get these chocolate godiva biscuits. They taste fucking amazing.

>>9827820
>don't get her some stupid artisan shit that tastes the same as everything else but costs 10 dollars a bar,
I hate you

>>9827910
Does valentines day consist of putting on your good dale earnhardt hat and buying a box of ferrero rocher?

>>9827813
ritter sport

I'm not OP
But I want some very good chocolate with nothing in it I don't want caramel I don't want butterscotch I want plain dark or milk chocolate

>>9827813
Get her a bar of Lindt Swiss Classic. Simple and elegant.

>>9827813
Poke around your city for a proper chocolatier, no sense buying a candy bar as a christmas gift

Not for the faint of heart

Fungi.com

>>9827907
I'm American and I grew up with Hershey bars...then I grew up and eventually had real chocolate. In comparison, Hershey's chocolate tastes rancid. It might have something to do with them using rancid milk, or milk powder or something like that. I don't know. I don't care. I hate it.

I also now hate milk chocolate too, but that's for a different rant.

>>9827813
Are you from Europe or USA? Get some fancy Swiss chocolate, buy pieces for a hand picked chocolate box.

>>9828346
This is good stuff.

>>9828337
This.

Also, just grab a sample of a few things and make a fucking date out of it.

I'm not 100% certain that bitches love going to fancy chocolate places and picking out fancy chocolate from an impressive assortment of awesome chocolate...but I'm willing to bet that bitches love going to fancy chocolate places and picking out fancy chocolate from an impressive assortment of awesome chocolate

>>9828369
Why are the swiss always so god damned good at everything?

>>9828404
>muh gun laws

>>9828292
>fine milk chocolate

is that marketing strategy working out for them

>>9827940
Why would you want to come out on christmas its fucking awkward?

>>9828404
Because they don't allow niggers to be citizens

>>9828360
Hate Hersheys too, but milk chocolate is far superior to dark

>>9827907
It's made from mixture of fermented vomit and shit guess some people like that

Lindt, Ghirardelli and Godiva is the best thing you can buy in your local walmart

Just had some of these and they were amazing.

Also where are you from?

I brought some Green and Blacks assortment box from the UK to my mother when I visited her and she really liked them. Also some Godiva, Divine, etc.
The Divine ones were pretty good.

>>9827907
Hershey does taste different from the more pricey chocolately options
When the Eurocucks mentioned that Hershey chocoltae had a vomity overtaste, I can now untaste/unsee.

Butyric acid is what makes Hershey's taste like vomit.

>>9828762
Haha nice meme I get it because if you eat godiva biscuits you must be gay haha true comedy

>>9827813
Pralus

>>9828360
>>9829074
Hershey bars are neither made from vomit or from spoiled milk

They just add butyric acid to it

>>9827813
I seriously want to know how much you are planning to spend that you specified a “small bar of chocolate” for Christmas. I don’t see that costing more than $5-$10 - which still shouldn’t be that outrageous outside the states.

>>9827907
>>9828360
>>9829074
>>9829559
Huh. I have never particularly cared for Hershey chocolate (Nestle still tastes cheap but at least more like regular chocolate) and I’ve often wondered what it was originally like that it managed to become famous... but I could never quite put my finger on what I disliked about the taste. I am not keen on the texture either but now that you all mention it tasting like vomit, I can actually sort of understand why you would describe it that way. Thank you.

I eat "real" chocolate all the time and still enjoy hershey's whenever I happen to eat it. Just stop being a bunch of tastelets

Valrhona is pretty much the gold standard when it comes to ultra-premium chocolate. The company is the largest wholesale distributor of ultra-premium cocoa beans in the world.

>>9829191
Guittard is superior to all 3. Next closest would be Lindt. Ghiradelli is like the Hershey bar of “fine chocolate”. I’d definitely take it any day over a Hershey bar but I’d take nearly any other “fine chocolate” over it.

>>9829602
butyric/butanoic acid is the defining factor of rancid butter, parmesan cheese, and vomit. Americans have literally become accustomed to eating vomit flavoured chocolate

>>9827813
No, no. You want to get her those in the 70% or 82% bars. But yeah, that's good chocolate. One of the best chocolates made in the states. Ironically, they were bought by Hershey's some years ago. Yes, Hershey's has the distinction of making both the worst chocolate in the world as well as some of the best.

>>9829602
>mfw slightly disgusted last time I ate a hersheys bar yet I couldn't put my finger on it
>this whole vomit thing makes sense

>>9827813
Find some on amazon, Its the best.

>>9827813
To be honest I really love Dove and Godiva chocolate so you can't go wrong with either of those.

I also found these at target and they're amazing and made with belgian chocolate.

Highly recommend.

>>9829737
>belgian chocolate
Belgian chocolate is a meme.
t. ate some

>>9827888
Kinder white is where it's at
But ferrero tastes bad

Find a flaw

>>9827900
>i'm a tasteless cuck

>>9827813
http://www.holistichelp.net/blog/is-raw-cacao-really-healthy/

>>9829853
>Find a flaw

>>9830217
SIXTY FIVE FUCKING PENCE
GOD BLESS THE QUEEN
JUST FUCK MY BOTTY, THIS IS ABSOLUTELY NOT ACCEPTABLE

>>9827813
I like El Rey chocolate. The 40% milk and the non-deodorized white are fairly special.

>>9829607
El Rey is far cheaper and just as good.

>>9830262
>non-deodorized white
What.

look at these guys

you just now their chocolate is going to be amazing

>>9830328
forgot pic

>>9830330
>Wow they even took the time to scatter the chocolate with white chocolate flakes.
>Wait a minute, this doesn't taste like white chocolate

>>9827853
Didn't really like bueno cause of wafers but my favorite chocolate of all time since i was 3(i think) is this.

>>9827813
Ignore everything else posted so far.

>>9830328
>>9830330
How much soy product are these boys putting in their chocolate? I mean jeeze...

>>9830271
Typically white chocolate has the bean's scent removed but El Rey doesn't do that. Has a more nutty taste.

>>9829584
Well they should cut that shit out. Why not add some more milk, vanilla or something. Fuck, anything but vomit extract

>>9830330
>>9830328
It's just remelted valhrona. Plebs who think good chocolate costs $10 for a little bar when they could just buy bulk high quality chocolate from a baking supply shop are the reason the mast bros got big. I see no problem with this, they weren't selling bad chocolate. On the contrary, it was better chocolate than the average ameritard has ever tasted. People just got triggered because they look 'hip'

This thread really revealed the flyovers on this board.

PROTIP: If it's available in a supermarket, it's not fancy.

One of these bad boys.

>>9830626
>his supermarket doesn't have fancy goods

My, just how poor are you?

>>9827820
PA representing. Hershey's is good. I have a small shop near my house who makes what some would call "real chocolate." Of course smaller places that don't produce mass amounts are better. For everyday typical chocolate, Hershey's is good. It doesn't have a vomit aftertaste to me. Besides, most "fancy" cheeses have feet/vomit tastes and smells so gtfo with that. You're not eating vomit/shit/feet don't be a child.

>>9830661
t. slave state flyover who thinks Dagoba is "fancy"

>>9830681
I'm sorry that you live in a pretend city and not a big boy city, but here in the first world fancy supermarkets have fancy goods and services.

Amedei or Michel Cluizel for the big guns. Also, something by Willies Cacao.

>>9830688
atlanta is not a "big city", cleetus

>>9829607
>>9828292
>>9828334
>>9827853
>>9827813
>>9830565
Is it really as hard to get decent chocalate in USA as the memes say or is it just appropriate to give your gf a supermarket-tier bar for christmas?

>>9830727
if you're 12, or dirt poor, it's acceptable

also keep in mind flyovers think that lindt is fancy so scharffen berger must be exclusive luxury chocolate

>>9830727
Its easy to get good chocolate here. There are high end US brands and Euro imports are common too. Its only the cheap shit big brands from a gas station or supermarket checkout line that suck.

>>9830217
I've seen them for 85p

>>9827900
ferrero is the brand name
rocher's is that specific chocolater name you retard

>>9830727
i dont know i dont live in the USA
but just order it off amazon buddy

>>9830727
also eurofag here
i tried hersheys cookies n chocolate bar once
and i personally thought it tasted fine

>>9827813
I like K'ul chocolate because I live there and it's covered with buzzwords :D

>>9827888
These are pretty fucking good.

>>9827813
Pic related. Best candy in America, owned by Warren buffet too.

>>9827828
Too bad because there a a few places in Hawai'i that make small batch bars from cacao grown in Hawai'i... some of the best chocolate ever.

>>9831041
Vosges Haut is better.

>>9827813
Trader Joe's dark chocolate lover's 85%
not a fancy brand but it's very good, nothing I've had tastes like it

>>9831042
http://www.hawaiimagazine.com/content/where-find-hawaii-chocolate

>>9831049
>Better than See's
Lol

A bag of cocoa-dusted almond chocs is an elegant treat. Also, Guylain's sea shells are an inexpensive but impressive entry-level fancy chocolates. Loacker's dark chocolate tortinas are addictive so avoid unless you like the bbw.
>>9827813
Don't know it
>>9827820
Surprised me how trash it is
>>9827853
>bueno
6/10
>>9827888
5/10
>>9827940
6.5/10
>>9828292
5/10
>>9828346
>70%
We need to go higher
>>9831058
HIGHER
>>9829715
Looks plain incredible
>>9830456
5.5/10
>>9830632
6.5/10

>>9827813
Get her one of these and explain to her that she has to eat it all

>>9827888
how can people dislike rochers, I am shook

>>9827881
https://www.valrhona-chocolate.com/

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>>9827813https://blissfulwunders.com/products

This a good friend of mine and his chocolates are orgasmic I recommend any of the wine truffles or the caramel with smoked sea salt but truly they are all amazing!

Don't fall for the dark chocolate meme and subject her to such torture. Anything above 80% tastes like chemicals and nothing else. Chocolate is meant to be paired with sweetness.

https://blissfulwunders.com/products

>>9831214
could have sworn it was 95%, but when I checked on amazon it was only 85%
maybe amazon only carries the normie tier
>>9831425
the Trader Joe's stuff tastes like a mouthful of cocoa flowers, you just eat shit brands

>>9830672

>taste and smell of feet
>a bad thing

anon, you really don't appreciate the finer things in life, do you?

>>9827813

>>9827813
Make your own. That way it's more romantic.

>small

Don't want her to get fat, eh?

>>9828337
Fuck, never seen those chococandies!

>>9827813
If you insist on chocolate get her a nice box of truffles from a chocolatier instead. A fucking candy bar will make her think she's not worth much to you as even a "fancy" one won't run you more than ten bucks. However, I would opt for something of permanence that she'll make use of, something homemade and thoughtful, or some kind of ticket to an activity together over food.

>>9827813
My favorite chocolate

>>9827900
>>9827888
>>9831325

They've gone way down hill in the past 10 years-ish

I dunno brands but I have relatives that are dutch and when they come visit they always bring some bomb ass dutch chocolate

>>9831010
Hershey's doesn't use the exact same chocolate for their combination bars as they do for plain chocolate.

>>9832816
still tasted fine
except their white chocolate tastes waxy tho but its coo....

>>9831214

>>9827813
they sponsor Pepin so it's probably good

>>9832377
Make them yourself... dead easy.

just give your " amazing gf " some double quarter pounder

oh sure shell chocolate

rofl....lol

>>9831321
this is the face of sugar addiction

>>9829548
>nice

>>9830217
n-no.....

>>9831321
Fuck that, take a trip to Hershey Park with your GF and have hot, sweaty, chocolate sex.

Go to a chocolatier and ask for a bar of milk chocolate.

If it's made in house it's probably better than anything mass-produced and packaged in a factory.

>>9834504
Hmm... no hiss

>>9829715
I CTRL-F'd Royce Nama when I opened the thread but didn't see anything, thank god I scrolled through before posting. OP if you want some major brownie points from your gf you buy these, some of the best chocolates money will buy.

When my dad went on business trips to Japan he's always bring a couple boxes back for the family, good times.

>>9830730
A perfect gift appeals to an emotional basis. And while Chocolate on it's own may seem rather cheap even if she likes it, putting it on the side of something bigger is still a viable option.
Also, there is always a legit chance that they agreed to not make each other big gifts because for example, they both might be broke.

>>9828346
I use this to make hot chocolate

>>9831214
99% tastes like feet

Glorious

>>9827813

Best chocolate ever coming through.

>>9827900
SMASHING GOOD TASTE

Buy some milka, remelt it into one solid bar, sprinkle some shit on it, like dried rose leaves and wrap it in foil.

>>9837483
mein neger!

>>9827907
I've taken pastry classes where we used Callebaut chocolate, so once I was exposed to higher quality chocolate, I couldn't help but notice that Hersheys chocolate had an aftertaste like sour milk. Especially their milk chocolate. Ugh.

>>9827907
it tastes sour and has a disgusting waxy texture. hershey's special dark is edible if someone offers it to me, but i'd never purchase a hershey's product intentionally

>>9827940
I thought i was the only one that liked these... Noone i talk to has even heard of them

>>9830624
Not anymore, they started out remelting and then started making their own terrible chocolate.

my ex once got me one of those big reeses for christmas and we both tried to eat it but could barely make a dent in it
i miss being happy like that

>>9837297
I don't see the problem here.
In all seriousness, it's a helluvan acquired taste, but it can be enhanced with good coffee, or you can have a bit as a primer before tasting some 90%, really brings out its sweetness.

>>9832904
Oh lawd, now I want this.

>>9840313
It's good stuff! I like that a lot of the complexities in the cocoa really shine in the 100%. Highly recommend to dark chocolate fans.

But, while it is very flavorful, with the bitterness and lack of any sweetness (seriously, good black coffee is sweeter) I don't recommend it unless you're already into super dark chocolates.

>>9827813
Why not just get pic related? Looks good to me.

>>9829548
this is still a thing in germany, obviously in different packaging. it's just caffeine chocolate. 5/10, wouldn't give it to my girlfriend for christmas.

>>9841972
See
>>9832407

These are fucking delicious

Because of this thread I just ordered some imported Swiss chocolate as a last minute Christmas gift. I got this one and another one http://prod-uc.myob.net/b69f0672e838bd6dfb34f91ab824e304/gallery/1507329144-maestrani_news.png-detail.jpg which looks nice as fuck.