to think high quality chocolate does not include green and blacks

[wilsonq2]

Making a torte tonight, just seen what dh bought last night. I asked him for eggs and high quality dark chocolate. He managed the eggs OK but came back with g nb 70%.

I know its not awful, but it really isn't high quality stuff. Not even fairtrade and made by the same people that brought you cheese in a can.

Aibu?

miscscph1773 I read that as chocolate willys .

It is the very definition of high quality chocolate

You shop in Tesco, you're not a conisseur

You are not grinding your own beans, popping to Guatemala for cocoa butter, or tempering your own chocolate with a joystick made from Jamie Oliver's shin bone.

GET. A.GRIP

I want some bournville now! Reminds me of my gran. Also YABU and a chocolate snob.

Green and blacks is both Organic and fair trade. Yabu.

Twelveleggedwalk I'm claiming your post as the expanded version of mine. Well said, including the last sentence.

YABU, is this a stealth boast that you can make a torte and afford chocolate more expensive than G&B? Here have a smart price bar of chocolate.

Sorry, OP, but Laurie's post below made me snort:

You are not grinding your own beans, popping to Guatemala for cocoa butter, or tempering your own chocolate with a joystick made from Jamie Oliver's shin bone.

yabu G&B is fair trade and organic.

I've checked my bar & it says cocoa, sugar & vanilla traded in compliance with Fairtrade Standards. It's milk choc as the DC don't like it when i chop dark choc into chunks for the muffins.

It's better than most. I buy because it uses organic milk.

YABU & your DH did well with the choc. What kind of eggs did he "manage"? And which choc brand do you usually use to cook with?

Which brand(s) would have been acceptable OP?

Whoops how embarasing it is fair trade, I've been personally boycotting them for years as the quality keeps going down. A few years ago maya gold was the only fair trade and all the rest weren't.

I can't be alone in noticing the quality has gone down? I sent him to wqitrose and they sell a lot of dark chocolate, he just bought it as was on offer

YANBU, LTB!

You were lucky he didn't eat it on the way home.

I think it is as high quality as you are likely to get in most supermarkets. If you wanted higher cocoa content you should have specified, but he might have come back with nothing.

I know Green & Black is now technically owned by Kraft, but I wasn't under the impression that the product had changed.

Montys or some of the named wqitrose brands.

Hell even lidl do some single origin chocolate that is better than g&b

You poor thing, married to an arsehole who not only runs errands but is also able to make an executive decision based on what's the best value

LTB - obviously

Well, I hope that bastard is wearing those eggs he managed.

I would have found it slightly strange tbh, especially as Waitrose stocks montezumas ( organic) and divine (fair trade) chocolate. Both taste better, and both currently on offer at cheaper than green and blacks. Lindt is still Swiss made so would be better option also

Waitrose also have own brand continental chocolate for cooking which is really good

Next time, get him to phone you from the chocolate aisle, and perhaps could you arrange for somebody to film the conversation and upload it to youtube?

Thanks art, that's exactly it. Of all the high solids chocolate wqitrose sell g b is about the lowest. Lol at least one person gets it.

To the rest of you try doing a taste test.

I think that really fussy people are best off buying stuff themselves.

Your poor nerves. Better keep some valium on standby in case the rotter ever insults you with a slab of Dairy Milk.

G&B is on the prime eye-level shelf in my local Waitrose. Montezumas is at the top, and Divine at the bottom. Makes them the chocolate you have to seek out, so I can understand why he picked the G&B.

If you didn't specify then I think he did a perfectly good job, getting you something that is perceived as higher quality.

'AIBU?'

'Yes you are!'

'You are all stupid'. -Flounce-

Typical.