American Chocolates?
#31
Re: American Chocolates?
Some of the Ghiradelli is OK and some of the Godiva if you have a store nearby. If you were visiting me in the UK I would rather have a big box of toffifee or toblerone from the duty free.
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Re: American Chocolates?
Another vote for Ghiradelli , ideally in a gift tin. Always been a hit and (as far as I know) you can't get in UK.
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Re: American Chocolates?
Godiva is in the UK so another "coals to Newcastle scenario"!
But check the prices first as Duty Free often seems to be more expensive than the high street these days.
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Re: American Chocolates?
Fairly easy to find:
Ghirardelli (owned by Lindt, so perhaps not American)
Dagoba (proof that Hershey's can make excellent chocolate)
Scharffen - Berger (more proof that Hershey's can make excellent chocolate)
Luxury stuff:
Best Chocolate in the U.S. | Food & Wine
Trivia:
Hershey's is truly terrible, but it's not due to incompetance. In fact, it tastes like that deliberately. The Hershey's Process, invented in the 1910s, introduces partially lipodized milk into the chocolate. This was done as a cost saving measure (it reduces spoilage) in pre-depression US when chocolate was a very expensive luxury item. Americans got used to the taste and it stuck. As a result, the standard Hershey's milk chocolate contains butyric acid, which is also found in parmesan cheese and baby spit up. Most Americans are so used to this disgusting taste that they look at you blankly when you say that Hershey's tastes like puke. Which it literally does taste like. Sensible Europeans didn't grow up on this stuff and thus have an automatic gag reflex when trying to eat it. Avoid.
Ghirardelli (owned by Lindt, so perhaps not American)
Dagoba (proof that Hershey's can make excellent chocolate)
Scharffen - Berger (more proof that Hershey's can make excellent chocolate)
Luxury stuff:
Best Chocolate in the U.S. | Food & Wine
Trivia:
Hershey's is truly terrible, but it's not due to incompetance. In fact, it tastes like that deliberately. The Hershey's Process, invented in the 1910s, introduces partially lipodized milk into the chocolate. This was done as a cost saving measure (it reduces spoilage) in pre-depression US when chocolate was a very expensive luxury item. Americans got used to the taste and it stuck. As a result, the standard Hershey's milk chocolate contains butyric acid, which is also found in parmesan cheese and baby spit up. Most Americans are so used to this disgusting taste that they look at you blankly when you say that Hershey's tastes like puke. Which it literally does taste like. Sensible Europeans didn't grow up on this stuff and thus have an automatic gag reflex when trying to eat it. Avoid.
#37
Re: American Chocolates?
If you are getting stuff for kids, then just get a variety pack of the random penny sweets. It's no better than UK stuff (in fact it is mostly worse), but it's different. Twinkies would probably go down well just because British people have probably heard of them from US tv and movies.
Give them Hershey's and they might give you a load of UK chocolate in sympathy for the nastiness.
Give them Hershey's and they might give you a load of UK chocolate in sympathy for the nastiness.
#38
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As a result, the standard Hershey's milk chocolate contains butyric acid, which is also found in parmesan cheese and baby spit up. Most Americans are so used to this disgusting taste that they look at you blankly when you say that Hershey's tastes like puke. Which it literally does taste like. Sensible Europeans didn't grow up on this stuff and thus have an automatic gag reflex when trying to eat it. Avoid.
Anyway, the only US candy I shall miss on my return to the UK are York Peppermint Patties. Very moreish. Probably because of the very low chocolate content and the massive sugar hit. Mind you I have also been known to plough my way through a box of After Eight mints on my own....
#40
Re: American Chocolates?
Fairly easy to find:
Ghirardelli (owned by Lindt, so perhaps not American)
Dagoba (proof that Hershey's can make excellent chocolate)
Scharffen - Berger (more proof that Hershey's can make excellent chocolate)
Luxury stuff:
Best Chocolate in the U.S. | Food & Wine
Trivia:
Hershey's is truly terrible, but it's not due to incompetance. In fact, it tastes like that deliberately. The Hershey's Process, invented in the 1910s, introduces partially lipodized milk into the chocolate. This was done as a cost saving measure (it reduces spoilage) in pre-depression US when chocolate was a very expensive luxury item. Americans got used to the taste and it stuck. As a result, the standard Hershey's milk chocolate contains butyric acid, which is also found in parmesan cheese and baby spit up. Most Americans are so used to this disgusting taste that they look at you blankly when you say that Hershey's tastes like puke. Which it literally does taste like. Sensible Europeans didn't grow up on this stuff and thus have an automatic gag reflex when trying to eat it. Avoid.
Ghirardelli (owned by Lindt, so perhaps not American)
Dagoba (proof that Hershey's can make excellent chocolate)
Scharffen - Berger (more proof that Hershey's can make excellent chocolate)
Luxury stuff:
Best Chocolate in the U.S. | Food & Wine
Trivia:
Hershey's is truly terrible, but it's not due to incompetance. In fact, it tastes like that deliberately. The Hershey's Process, invented in the 1910s, introduces partially lipodized milk into the chocolate. This was done as a cost saving measure (it reduces spoilage) in pre-depression US when chocolate was a very expensive luxury item. Americans got used to the taste and it stuck. As a result, the standard Hershey's milk chocolate contains butyric acid, which is also found in parmesan cheese and baby spit up. Most Americans are so used to this disgusting taste that they look at you blankly when you say that Hershey's tastes like puke. Which it literally does taste like. Sensible Europeans didn't grow up on this stuff and thus have an automatic gag reflex when trying to eat it. Avoid.
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Re: American Chocolates?
For some reason I never tried the chocolate coated bacon. Only one thing worse than US chocolate, and that's adding streaky bacon to it.
#43
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More to the point, how much chocolate are you going to take back to the USA with you.
#44
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I bought 4 3 packs of Double Deckers back with me.
I ran out in two weeks and Mrs T had to bring more
In my defence, I did sharesome one with a work colleague.
As for stuff we took: clothes and shit from Wallyworld, some dodgy sweets and some jerky that we sneaked in.
Found the jerky in Tesco, cheaper than US prices!
I ran out in two weeks and Mrs T had to bring more
In my defence, I did share
As for stuff we took: clothes and shit from Wallyworld, some dodgy sweets and some jerky that we sneaked in.
Found the jerky in Tesco, cheaper than US prices!
Last edited by Titchski; Jul 17th 2014 at 1:11 am. Reason: Added what we took over...
#45
Re: American Chocolates?
No, we re-branded it 'people of Morrisons'.....or as our local store had it for several days 'Mor. ons'