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Okay, I found a british chocolate bar that I don't like.

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Yech....I never did like much from Tesco while I lived over there except their FRESH BAKED BREAD! *drool* What I wouldn't give for a fresh, hot loaf of their Farmer's Bread. Just make sure I have some nice salted butter and step back and leave me alone with my loaf of bread. :twisted:

*sigh*

I can't wait till this bloody move is over with and we get settled in the new place. Maybe then, once and for all, I'll put that bread maker to good use!

I used to buy a focaccia from them every week and grill it with cheese, onion and tomatoes.....sit and watch football with that and a cup of coffee. Then I got disappointed when they changed their supplier for the focaccia to a revolting kind and I stopped getting them. That was a sad day.

Does any one find that Hersheys milk chocolate has got a weird after taste? It's kind of like bile. The plain chocolates fine.

They sell Bountys in the local Meijers. wonderful.

Don't really care for any Hersheys chocolate. It leaves a chalky after taste in my mouth. It isn't smooth and creamy like the Brit stuff.

The tragedy is that even Cadbury's Dairy Milk is made by Hersheys in the US. The last one I had was very disappointing and not the Cadbury's I remember at all!

I keep trying to describe the difference every time - and every time I come up blank. Especially when it's to Americans.

Hershey's chocolate, to me, tastes sort of like the really, REALLY cheap chocolate that you used to get in cheap gifts back in the UK - like inside an unbranded easter egg, or perhaps behind the doors of your annual Advent Calendar. Or perhaps like those chocolate coins that you used to always get in your Christmas stocking. You know?

It doesn't seem to melt the way it should - it feels like it is comprised roughly 20% of candle wax. Softish texture, but fairly unmeltable and doesn't really taste of anything.
25% of it also seems to be comprised of - yes you're right - something eerily similar in taste to bile. You know - it tastes like it's been made with sour milk.
About 5% of it seems to include something that originally started as powder - and now resembles a wet aspirin-type consistency.
The remaining percentage of milk chocolate Hershey bars seem to be made with high-milk content, low cocoa butter content chocolate power.

Contrast that to even the simplest Cadbury chocolate bars in the UK. Cadbury's chocolate is smooth, melt-in-your-mouth and doesn't taste at all sour.

However, saying all this, there are a lot of great chocolate bars that get my cocoa-connoisseur's stamp of approval in the US. Think about Dove dark chocolate bars, Toblerone, ANYTHING Lindt, most things Ghirardelli, and a bunch of other things that I can't think of right now.

KR

I was just going to say that Dove is very good, and if you want to put the money out, anything Lindt is to die for.

Our friends in the UK say that Hershey's tastes like sick. lol 8 years ago, I wouldn't have said that, but now, I totally agree with it. Makes life a lot easier when I take my Middle School Chorus to Hershey Park every May!

It's not just me then! It's weird isn't it. Kind of like that acidy bile sensation you get if you've been sick the night before.

Almond Joys are great though. Like dark Bountys with a little almond to break your teeth on.

Best chocolate?
Laura Secord
http//english.laurasecord.ca/

You'd have to go some to beat Sees

http//www.sees.com/home.cfm

Anyone tried Hersheys 'Symphony' chocolate bar?

Probably the best tasting/textured regular store bought choccie bar you can buy IMO.

I agree. If you want good chocolate you won't find it in any display counter whether its here in North America or the UK. You have to go to the individual chocolate makers.
They cost more but they are worth it if you want the best.

Trader Joes at certain timesof the year sells 10 pound wt. blocks of German chocolate and also smaller bars.Seemingly German and Belgian chocolate is better quality that the UK stuff,because they conform to the higher EU standards for chocolate.

They do contain a lot more chocolate. All the pastry chefs go for Belgian.

Trader Joes has a good Milk Chocolate bar - I think its a truffle, but it doesn't say that on the light blue packaging.