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Post by zinc on Sept 11, 2017 17:44:57 GMT -5
Post your favourite chocolate types, brands, recipes, etc from all over the world (except from America because American chocolate sucks). I recently discovered a Latvian brand NelleUlla. The chocolates have unique flavour combinations, are not too sweet and look beautiful. www.nelleulla.com/other-en/
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Post by Ripley on Sept 14, 2017 14:03:47 GMT -5
Brilliant topic zinc ! I love chocolate, especially dark chocolate and bittersweet chocolate. We have some great chocolatiers here with both The Chocolate Fetish and the French Broad Chocolates & Tasting Lab. I am a sucker for well- made truffles and have sent chocolates from both as gifts. I love the Fall Truffle collection, which features Apple Cider, Pumpkin, Spiced Pear, Fig & Port, Maple Bourbon, Carrot Cake, although I don't eat these anymore. Fruit, liquors and spices used are mostly all local, artisanal and decadent but fantastic.
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Post by zinc on Sept 14, 2017 20:05:47 GMT -5
Brilliant topic zinc ! I love chocolate, especially dark chocolate and bittersweet chocolate. We have some great chocolatiers here with both The Chocolate Fetish and the French Broad Chocolates & Tasting Lab. I am a sucker for well- made truffles and have sent chocolates from both as gifts. I love the Fall Truffle collection, which features Apple Cider, Pumpkin, Spiced Pear, Fig & Port, Maple Bourbon, Carrot Cake, although I don't eat these anymore. Fruit, liquors and spices used are mostly all local, artisanal and decadent but fantastic. Those look great, Ripley! I like any kind of chocolate, but I do prefer white and usually some kind of strawberry or rose flavour added to it. These are my favourite chocolate bars and apparently we get them in Canada, so I have to be on the lookout for them!
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Post by walkingdeadrules on Sept 15, 2017 16:12:40 GMT -5
I'm not very discriminating when it comes to Chocolate I'm afraid. My biggest vice. I like it all. I do seem to go nuts for white chocolate, probably because I don't have it that often. And a good dark chocolate with raspberry filling will put me in orbit. But really I like it all. Even the cheap easter chocolates!
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Post by zinc on Sept 16, 2017 9:41:06 GMT -5
I'm not very discriminating when it comes to Chocolate I'm afraid. My biggest vice. I like it all. I do seem to go nuts for white chocolate, probably because I don't have it that often. And a good dark chocolate with raspberry filling will put me in orbit. But really I like it all. Even the cheap easter chocolates! I'm normally not very discriminating either, but American chocolate tends to be in a league of its own with how bad it is in texture and taste. Lol. Sorry. Completely agree about dark chocolate with a berry filling. The combination of cherry and dark chocolate is a classic.
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Post by walkingdeadrules on Sept 16, 2017 9:49:53 GMT -5
We've been preconditioned zinc to like it! I agree with you, international chocolates are much better generally speaking.
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Post by zinc on Sept 16, 2017 9:54:46 GMT -5
We've been preconditioned zinc to like it! I agree with you, international chocolates are much better generally speaking. If you're ever north of the border try Coffee Crisp. I can easily eat 10 of those things. They're not that high quality but taste and smell amazing!
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Post by MorganBGone on Sept 16, 2017 14:53:55 GMT -5
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Post by zinc on Sept 17, 2017 10:48:53 GMT -5
Mmmm... Coffee Crisp. I've been known to buy variety mini chocolate bar packs for trick or treaters and keep all the mini Coffee Crisps for myself. No shame. Conversely, all this talk of white "chocolate" is paining me. That sickly sweet, soap-like substance isn't even worthy of the name. Milk and dark are where it's at. P.S. When does the M&M vs Smarties debate begin? (No, Americans, not *those* Smarties, aka "Rockets"... I mean *real* Smarties.) Lol I should probably do the same. Though I'm more than content not giving those greedy freeloaders anything. And damn you with that white chocolate opinion, lol. You haven't tasted the good stuff. If you're in Toronto go here and try their white chocolate truffles: www.avocachocolates.com/our-truffles
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Post by zinc on Sept 17, 2017 16:59:24 GMT -5
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Post by Ripley on Sept 17, 2017 17:03:33 GMT -5
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Post by zinc on Sept 17, 2017 17:13:12 GMT -5
Thanks Ripley, that first recipe looks amazing! I'm looking around on her blog and I might also try the pumpkin truffles (https://omgchocolatedesserts.com/white-chocolate-pumpkin-truffles/) as I have a lot of pumpkin puree left.
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Post by Ripley on Sept 17, 2017 17:15:26 GMT -5
I think pumpkin and white chocolate sound great. With or without a little crystallized ginger, lol.
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Post by zinc on Sept 17, 2017 17:25:41 GMT -5
I think pumpkin and white chocolate sound great. With or without a little crystallized ginger, lol. No ginger. It's my most hated thing, lol. Whenever any dish or cocktail is garnished with ginger and I accidentally get a piece in my mouth it ruins the taste. I had a nice bowl of dried fruit accompanying our cocktails at a bar and the worst was accidentally picking up the ginger thinking it's pineapple or cantaloupe.
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Post by dandelioncherokee on Sept 18, 2017 3:23:46 GMT -5
Hey! Thank you for tagging me! I have never tried to make truffles,so I haven't got a recipe to share. But I can recommend an extraordinary chocolate manufacture from Austria. Handmade,organic chocolates. Look up www.zotterusa.comMr. Zotter is a chocolate genius. He creates chocolates with every flavour you can think of. You can buy each flavour only for a limited time. He has chocolates with beer.With bacon.With saffron.With Gin Tonic.With ketchup.With weed. Everything you can imagine.And they are always delicious. He also combines unusual flavours.
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Post by zinc on Sept 18, 2017 19:01:34 GMT -5
Hey! Thank you for tagging me! I have never tried to make truffles,so I haven't got a recipe to share. But I can recommend an extraordinary chocolate manufacture from Austria. Handmade,organic chocolates. Look up www.zotterusa.comMr. Zotter is a chocolate genius. He creates chocolates with every flavour you can think of. You can buy each flavour only for a limited time. He has chocolates with beer.With bacon.With saffron.With Gin Tonic.With ketchup.With weed. Everything you can imagine.And they are always delicious. He also combines unusual flavours. I think you just showed me heaven. If this ships to Canada, I will be 25 lbs heavier by January.
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Post by dandelioncherokee on Sept 20, 2017 0:54:16 GMT -5
zincThere is another online shop for Canada: www.zotter.caYou must try these chocolates!
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Post by Kitsune on Sept 21, 2017 9:04:33 GMT -5
I just started at a University. I've heard that eating chocolate before a test can help jog your memory. I don't know if this is true, but whatever gives me an excuse to eat it, I'm on board. Anyways, my girlfriend just got back from a trip to Amsterdam and brought this home for me. it was actually really good. I even shared it with my roommate because of how good it was.
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Post by zinc on Sept 21, 2017 10:14:59 GMT -5
Kitsune thanks for sharing. So I looked up the chocolates and I'm glad I did. I had no idea about all of this, and I'm actually curious to read the cases if I can find English translations. In 2002, investigative reporter Teun van de Keuken of the Dutch television show Keuringsdienst van Waarde found that none of the chocolate manufacturers that had signed the Harkin–Engel Protocol was upholding the agreements made in 2001 (producing 'slave-free' chocolate from 2005 on), he decided to take matters into his own hand by recording himself eating 17 bars of chocolate and subsequently taking himself to court for "knowingly purchasing an illegally manufactured product". To make a case against himself, he convinced four former cocoa plantation child slaves from Ivory Coast to testify against him. By 2007, the Dutch attorney general had the case dismissed for being outside their jurisdiction.
When none of the companies he contacted showed any interest in producing chocolate bars made differently, he started manufacturing his own chocolate, and in November introduced a milk chocolate bar made entirely from 'slave-free' cocoa.
On February 6, 2007 a court ruling in Amsterdam officially acknowledged that Tony's Chocolonely chocolate was produced in a slave-free manner.[1] A Dutch importer for Swiss-brand chocolates unsuccessfully sued the team behind Tony's Chocolonely for reputation damage, claiming that "slave-free chocolate is impossible to produce".[2]
When a hazelnut milk chocolate bar was added to the lineup in 2010, Dutch TV show 'Een Vandaag' reported that 9-year-old children participated in the Turkish hazelnut harvest.[3]The company responded by immediately switching to a local hazelnut supplier from the Netherlands. The same year, the market-share of the brand exceeded 4.5 percent in the Netherlands.[4]
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