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Dark chocolate tastes like ass!

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Frosty66611 · 17/09/2018 10:26

I love eating healthily, but when I feel the urge to indulge then dark chocolate just doesn’t ever cut it for me. A big dirty bar of Dairy Milk or Milky Bar will always win my heart and I’m not ashamed to admit it. Does anyone else hate dark chocolate as much as me?

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Medea13 · 17/09/2018 11:41

Dark chocolate is disgusting. Also, it's not really any healthier than other kinds of chocolate -- it may have less sugar but is has a biy more fat, usually. The only reason it might be healthier to have around os of you're trying to cut down... It's so nasty you wouldn't want to eat any!!!

noeffingidea · 17/09/2018 11:08

Dark chocolate is ok in after eights and frys cream bars, and Border ginger biscuits but on it's own it's rank. As for eating a couple of squares a day, what's the point? I'd rather eat one nice bar of chocolate once a week.

LittleMissMarker · 17/09/2018 11:05

I like dark chocolate but 90% cocoa is meant for cooking or maybe as a thin layer round a very sweet filling. It's not for eating in chunks!

Eponymous · 17/09/2018 11:04

90% Lindt for me.
It's the only one I can just have a couple of squares of and then not go back for more.

BumbleNova · 17/09/2018 11:03

Completely disagree! I don't think dairy milk tastes like chocolate. It's gross. All greasy because of the rubbish vegetable fats they pack it with. Vom.

Starlings27 · 17/09/2018 11:03

I love Lindt dark chocolate best. Not keen on milk chocolate unless it’s onsomething like a Crunchie (and even then I’d love a dark Crunchie) and white chocolate is disgusting. It shouldn’t even be allowed to be called chocolate!

mavismcruet · 17/09/2018 11:00

That’s a very tasty ass you have been nibbling on OP Grin

Karigan198 · 17/09/2018 10:59

Dark chocolate is disgusting in anything but brownies which rather defeats the point 😂😂😂

LanguidLobster · 17/09/2018 10:57

Actually my favourite ever was green and blacks sour cherry then they went and discontinued it, bastards

theycallmebabydriver · 17/09/2018 10:55

I'm totally with you on this OP, dark chocolate is just a disappointing reminder that you could be eating something nice instead.

BobLemon · 17/09/2018 10:47

YANBU

StayAChild · 17/09/2018 10:45

I've recently decided to stop trying it. It's awful and no way does it make me stop craving milk chocolate. I get rid of the dark chocolate ones first in a box of chocolates (note I don't give them away, I just eat them first so I can take the taste away with lovely milk and white chocolate ones) Grin

DH on the other hand can make a small bar of dark chocolate last all week, with a couple of squares a night. No fear of having to share it with me. Chocolate

NotANotMan · 17/09/2018 10:44

Also keep it in the fridge

AbsentmindedWoman · 17/09/2018 10:44

I like the 70% kind. I think Godiva has the edge for me in terms of favourite brand. It's a completely different chocolate experience to eating milk chocolate. It's much more authentically chocolatey, so you feel satisfied after a small amount and the hankering goes away.

HOWEVER, there are times when I really want milk chocolate (basically mandatory with pms) and I indulge.

twattymctwatterson · 17/09/2018 10:43

If ass tastes like dark chocolate then I'm all about the ass

NotANotMan · 17/09/2018 10:43

I'm vegan so quite a connoseuir (sp) of dark chocolate.
The thinner the bar, the nicer it is. Big wodges of dark chocolate stick in your mouth.
Lindt 75% is lovely. 85% and above is bitter.
Lidl fin carre finest dark chocolate is lovely. Lidl cheap dark chocolate is rank and their expensive single origin dark chocolate is meh
Lidl dark chocolate with raspberries is lush, as is the one with orange
Tesco 75% is nice, Tesco dark chocolate with orange is sweet and nasty.
Green and blacks dark chocolate is all good, especially with raspberries or ginger

CurlyWurlyTwirly · 17/09/2018 10:39

I am torn between Dairy Milk fruit and nut and Milka Oreo chocolate.
Not a good week for me to be on this thread; I’m trying to do the blood sugar diet Grin

MissusGeneHunt · 17/09/2018 10:39

Bit unfair on donkeys, methinks... Confused

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Frosty66611 · 17/09/2018 10:38

I did a tasting event at Hotel Chocolat last year and got to sample some of their 100% dark. It made me feel wired!
There were some white truffles and I was the only one digging into them and I could see the disapproving looks from the guy hosting it Grin

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MTBMummy · 17/09/2018 10:35

90% is quite a jump into dark chocolate, try the 70% stuff, but be warned, it's a gateway into the lush-ness of dark chocolate.

Cant stand milk or white chocolate myself

LanguidLobster · 17/09/2018 10:34

I have quite 'bitter' tastebuds so like it.

Have you tried the flavoured bars? E.g. with fruit/nuts?

iklboo · 17/09/2018 10:34

The higher percentage the more bitter it will taste. I'd go 75% at the most but I really love dark chocolate. Having never licked a donkey I can't make a comparison. Grin

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Frosty66611 · 17/09/2018 10:31

@curlywurly I had some 90% Lindt recently and it just tasted like eating raw coffee beans to me. Utterly vile

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Frosty66611 · 17/09/2018 10:30

@April I haven’t. I’ll need to check it out to see if it can convert me

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MaggieSimpsonsPacifier · 17/09/2018 10:30

I’ll take your word for that, OP!

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