With Easter imminent it is fair bet that most of us, regardless of age, will be enjoying some chocolate this weekend. It always tastes better in egg form, doesn’t it? Something to with the large surface area helping it melt easier I suppose.
I’ve always had a sweet tooth, and the dental work to prove it. If it’s chocolate then I prefer milk, or even white, than the grown up 70% cocoa stuff, and I would pick nuts of caramel/toffee over any kind of fruit in it. I decided my sweet favourites when I was a kid and they haven’t matured with the rest of me.
What do you pick from the confectionary counter to get your blood sugar spiking?
Soz @gatz
It’s dark chocolate for me generally. No specific brand but needs to be around 70% strength.
And I wish you joy of it. I like strong black coffee and heady red wines, but chocolate is the gap in my tastes. In one way I would like to gain an appreciation for exotic, single estate premium brands, but I know I will always be happier with a bar of Dairy Milk. And it’s much cheaper.
I was never that keen on Easter eggs and can remember, at the age of seven or eight, asking my grandparents for a book token instead “because Easter eggs give me an upset tummy”. How did it take another 37 years to be diagnosed with Crohn’s?
Anyhow, chocolate can be appreciated, like real ale or fine wine, and anything less than 70% now tastes sickly-sweet. My current fave is Tesco 85%
I’m actually reasonably well behaved when it comes to sweet things – we generally never have dessert with dinner etc etc.
That said, if there is chocolate in the house, it will be eaten. And if it’s 70% dark chocolate it will be eaten quicker.
I am partial to a Cadbury Creme Egg also…..
https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/cadbury_eggs.png
Old Jamaica
That was my father’s favourite, or maybe he just knew that even with my sweet tooth as a kid I wouldn’t go anywhere near dark chocolate with rum and raisin
“It always tastes better in egg form, doesn’t it? Something to with the large surface area helping it melt easier I suppose.”
This intrigues me: if you break bits off the egg, it would be just like eating squares from a bar. So, for this to work, would you need the whole egg in your mouth, to get the benefit of the larger surface area?
I now have a very different image of the “real life” Gatz…
I have Ehlers-Danlos (stretchy) skin and my party piece was to fit a whole Mars bar into my gob (and get to look like a Hamster). Not sure I could get a whole Easter egg in, mind.
I think it’s because chocolate eggs are so thin as well. I’ve never understood some people’s enthusiasm for chocolate out of the fridge, or even freezer. The way chocolate melts in your mouth is a large part of the pleasure, and chilling it just means it takes longer to get there.
So…the pleasure is longer?
You’re obviously a bloke. 😏
Kills a good proportion of the flavour to eat chocolate really cold. By all means store it in the fridge in warm weather, but let it get nearer to room temperature before eating.
Cheese also tastes better at room temperature than straight from the fridge.
I’m more susceptible to savoury stuff than sweet, but I like the occasional bar of (70%) chocolate. Green & Blacks do a very nice bar with ginger in it.
Ooh yes. Dark chocolate with ginger…mmmm
I’ve been in London with my family since Monday, and every day, we’ve had to go into Hotel Chocolat to feed their habits. Eton Mess and chocolate buttons seem to go down well. No doubt you’ll find us in the Bond St branch in Chelmsford on Saturday, a day out while visiting my parents.
I prefer Neuhaus dark chocolate pralines, although Mars and Snickers fill a hole when I’m flagging. Right now, there’s a Ben & Jerry’s edition of the Tony’s Chocolonely range – dark milk brownie 42% – which really hits the sweet spot.
Neuhaus dark chocolate = nice
Listen to brother Salwarpe on this point.
I love me a sour jelly. May not be sweet but they are very sugary. Faves are the Maynards Sours, in the shape of small children. Loathe the Haribo brand, mind, as they seem made of upcycled tyres.
Not keen on choc, but will scoff a Lindt truffle if going. And I like Skittles, especially now they do a sour range too.
But don’t really like sweets.