Fave/Hated Chocolate(s)?

Mmm...chocolate. I hope that we're all humans here, so I guess that almost all of us like chocolate, right?

Since I've started shopping at a little co-op store that doesn't sell cheap candy bars but sells all sorts of fancy organic chocolates, I've discovered that I love really dark chocolate. The 71% cacao Valrhona bittersweet dark chocolate is really incredible (it's weird, but my whole body feels good as it melts in my mouth), and the cheaper very dark chocolates are nice, too. Dagoba's 87% Eclipse organic chocolate is really interesting, and I like it quite a bit, though I can't really eat it in huge quantities...not that I eat any chocolate in huge quantities...I don't want to LOOK like a chocoholic, too! It's a lot more bitter than sweet, but it's still quite an interesting and nice taste. I really, really want to try the 99% cacao chocolates that Lindt makes sometime, though I've never seen them in stores anywhere.

I like nice sweet milk chocolates a lot, too, and even white chocolate and cheaper chocolates like Hershey's is nice now and then.

So, what kinds of chocolate do you all like?

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Originally Posted by Rydia

I'm just going to merge this with the existing chocolate thread.

Oh...sorry about that!

Originally Posted by Scarletdeath

I particularly like chocalate with liquid filling; cherry wine for example. Add a little alchohol flavor into those sweet little things and hmmm....

Truffles are pretty yummy. I usually like plain unflavored chocolate more than anything else, though. Plus, I always give into the temptation to chew on truffles to get at the filling.

Actually, AkirA, dark chocolate gives a nice burst of energy and helps me concentrate too. A square of Valrhona Le Noir Amer will make me bubbly and happy and energetic for hours. I don't think that it's just the sugar, because drinking a vending machine bottle of Coke (which has more sugar than an entire bar of that chocolate) just makes me feel jittery and burned-out.

My parents and sisters all HATE dark and milk chocolate...they'll only eat white chocolate, and maybe flavored light milk chocolate. Weirdoes. On the other hand, if someone sends my mom chocolate candies for Easter or Mother's Day, she always gives them to me. The only thing better than great chocolate is FREE great chocolate!

There's nowhere I can't reach.