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I still haven't ever tried nutella. I think it's some kind of self-protective instinct that keeps me from buying it. ;-)5
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amusedmonkey wrote: »
Sorry ..personally I'm not partial...when I was growing up they were the cheapest boxed chocolates and are a little bit of a joke down to the appalling kitsch ambassador adverts that we still enjoy quoting badly
If you look at the ingredients, Quality chocolate you'd be looking for high cocoa solids content above 70% and no use of vegetable oil in place of cocoa butter because vegetable oil is cheaper.
Ingredients. MILK chocolate 30% (sugar, cocoa butter, cocoa mass, skimmed MILK powder, concentrated BUTTER, emulsifier: lecithins (SOYA), vanillin), HAZELNUTS (28.5%), sugar, palm oil, WHEAT flour, whey powder (MILK), fat-reduced cocoa, emulsifier: lecithins (SOYA), raising agent (sodium bicarbonate), salt, vanillin
Who cares if they're some of the cheaper ones? They taste heavenly! Hazelnuts and chocolate? SOLD!
Personally I'm not a chocolate snob (or a food snob for that matter). My sister has a job that sends her traveling all over the world and she always brings me something special like handcrafted high quality chocolates, teas, all kinds of fancy foodstuff which I really enjoy. Does not change the fact that Ferrero Rocher tastes like a trip to the unicorn land to me, but then again I have a weakness for hazelnut chocolatey stuff, which is also why a full jar of Nutella will never make it to my shelf again. I'll stick with the single serve packs, thank you.
As I said personal preference, they taste like meh to me0 -
VintageFeline wrote: »
Without wanting to be one of those making sweeping generalisations about whole countries I'm going to anyway. Ferrero Rocher may be good quality to our US friends but here in the UK it's really equivalent to Dairy Milk just in fancier packaging. I did think they were super fancy in the 90s though when we only had them at Christmas!
Now the chocolatier over the road from my flat, THAT is the good stuff. And priced accordingly, which is bad news for my bank balance but good news for me not just switching to a diet exclusively made up of said chocolates.......
Milk Tray was a cut above Ferrero Rocher
And the Milk Tray man was way more fun than the Ambassador. (Though I always preferred Terry's All Gold anyway).2 -
BruinsGal_91 wrote: »VintageFeline wrote: »
Without wanting to be one of those making sweeping generalisations about whole countries I'm going to anyway. Ferrero Rocher may be good quality to our US friends but here in the UK it's really equivalent to Dairy Milk just in fancier packaging. I did think they were super fancy in the 90s though when we only had them at Christmas!
Now the chocolatier over the road from my flat, THAT is the good stuff. And priced accordingly, which is bad news for my bank balance but good news for me not just switching to a diet exclusively made up of said chocolates.......
Milk Tray was a cut above Ferrero Rocher
And the Milk Tray man was way more fun than the Ambassador. (Though I always preferred Terry's All Gold anyway).
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I was being mostly tongue in cheek by the way. 10 years ago I might have been more serious but I think nearly everyone is better educated on what constitutes "good" food and what's cheap but tasty.0
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VintageFeline wrote: »I was being mostly tongue in cheek by the way. 10 years ago I might have been more serious but I think nearly everyone is better educated on what constitutes "good" food and what's cheap but tasty.
Chips, curry sauce, mushy peas...food of the gods
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I will eat Ferrero, I will eat Milk Tray, I will eat chocolatier chocolates. I have levels of food snobbery. I'll also eat dirty fried chicken at 3am outside a London club.
You probably couldn't pay me to eat Hersheys though. Tried it once on holiday when I was about 11. Scarred for life.5 -
lemurcat12 wrote: »I still haven't ever tried nutella. I think it's some kind of self-protective instinct that keeps me from buying it. ;-)
If you happen to try it, do a thin layer on a toast (or better yet a crepe). The hazelnut flavor gets overwhelmed by sugar if you do a thick layer. Better yet, don't. You are right to stay away.6 -
I kind of love that this thread has become an argument over how good a particular type of chocolate actually is.7
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VintageFeline wrote: »I will eat Ferrero, I will eat Milk Tray, I will eat chocolatier chocolates. I have levels of food snobbery. I'll also eat dirty fried chicken at 3am outside a London club.
You probably couldn't pay me to eat Hersheys though. Tried it once on holiday when I was about 11. Scarred for life.
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Aaron_K123 wrote: »I kind of love that this thread has become an argument over how good a particular type of chocolate actually is.
I'm trying very very very hard to stay out of it
(Swiss girl here... there's NO way in hell anything Ferrero does even qualifies as 'decent'...)3 -
Have to agree. Overly sweet c**p. I don't understand why people like them0 -
VintageFeline wrote: »I will eat Ferrero, I will eat Milk Tray, I will eat chocolatier chocolates. I have levels of food snobbery. I'll also eat dirty fried chicken at 3am outside a London club.
You probably couldn't pay me to eat Hersheys though. Tried it once on holiday when I was about 11. Scarred for life.
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Hershey's tastes like clay. Like you were working on a pot and got hungry so decided to just have a little taste. I assume we can all agree that hershey's represents the bottom of the barrel.
Although that said I may have had worse in the form of the chocolate in a Kinder-egg, if you can even call that chocolate. That was like chocolate if chocoate was some sort of packaging material.3 -
Aaron_K123 wrote: »VintageFeline wrote: »I will eat Ferrero, I will eat Milk Tray, I will eat chocolatier chocolates. I have levels of food snobbery. I'll also eat dirty fried chicken at 3am outside a London club.
You probably couldn't pay me to eat Hersheys though. Tried it once on holiday when I was about 11. Scarred for life.
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Hershey's tastes like clay. Like you were working on a pot and got hungry so decided to just have a little taste. I assume we can all agree that hershey's represents the bottom of the barrel.
Although that said I may have had worse in the form of the chocolate in a Kinder-egg, if you can even call that chocolate. That was like chocolate if chocoate was some sort of packaging material.
Nope. Years ago in what was then East Germany I bought something that purported to be chocolate. Had about as much chocolate flavor as wet cardboard. And the texture was even worse than the taste.1 -
Aaron_K123 wrote: »VintageFeline wrote: »I will eat Ferrero, I will eat Milk Tray, I will eat chocolatier chocolates. I have levels of food snobbery. I'll also eat dirty fried chicken at 3am outside a London club.
You probably couldn't pay me to eat Hersheys though. Tried it once on holiday when I was about 11. Scarred for life.
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Hershey's tastes like clay. Like you were working on a pot and got hungry so decided to just have a little taste. I assume we can all agree that hershey's represents the bottom of the barrel.
Although that said I may have had worse in the form of the chocolate in a Kinder-egg, if you can even call that chocolate. That was like chocolate if chocoate was some sort of packaging material.
Sure, but was it packing material filled with chemicals?1 -
idk why we're even arguing, all chocolate is good chocolate, let's be real.5
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I actually don't mind Kinder chocolate! "Chocolate". I'll cut a b*&%h for a Kinder Bueno.2
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Yeah, sorry America. I love you so much that I became a citizen earlier this year, but Hershey's chocolate is really bad. Luckily I have a shop close by that sells British chocolate. And this is probably the reason why I'm on MFP.
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Buenos... shut up and take my.money!VintageFeline wrote: »I actually don't mind Kinder chocolate! "Chocolate". I'll cut a b*&%h for a Kinder Bueno.
I love chocolate. The only chocolate I've hated was some cheap *kitten* crap from something below dollar store quality. It wasn't sweet but wasn't dark, was crumbly but melted into weird globs with horrible mouth feel and tasted like ashtray smells. It looked really nice, though.
Cadbury chocolate from Australia, UK and Canada tastes different to me.1 -
So long as we can all agree that Hershey's has no business calling their product chocolate.4
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VintageFeline wrote: »I will eat Ferrero, I will eat Milk Tray, I will eat chocolatier chocolates. I have levels of food snobbery. I'll also eat dirty fried chicken at 3am outside a London club.
You probably couldn't pay me to eat Hersheys though. Tried it once on holiday when I was about 11. Scarred for life.
Same here. I don't like Hershey much (although I did go last Summer and made my own bar and that was tasty, but I added a bunch of stuff in it).
I love Kinder too. My favorites are still pretty much Godiva, Lindt, and Cote d'Or.
I like Ferrero but I'm a sucker for hazelnuts too. Now these though... so good.
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cerise_noir wrote: »
Buenos... shut up and take my.money!VintageFeline wrote: »I actually don't mind Kinder chocolate! "Chocolate". I'll cut a b*&%h for a Kinder Bueno.
I love chocolate. The only chocolate I've hated was some cheap *kitten* crap from something below dollar store quality. It wasn't sweet but wasn't dark, was crumbly but melted into weird globs with horrible mouth feel and tasted like ashtray smells. It looked really nice, though.
Cadbury chocolate from Australia, UK and Canada tastes different to me.
Can only comment on New Zealand and UK but they do taste different. Then the US bought Cadbury's and changed the recipe I think. I honestly don't eat enough chocolate regularly enough to really note the nuances. Plus, I'm more likely to go for Milka or Galaxy at the lower end of the market.1 -
Went to the Hershey factory many, many years ago, because we were passing through Pennsylvania on our way elsewhere. Just the smell of their chocolate while on the tour made me want to hurl.
I'm Dutch, so give me real Dutch chocolate any time of the day!
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nutmegoreo wrote: »Aaron_K123 wrote: »VintageFeline wrote: »I will eat Ferrero, I will eat Milk Tray, I will eat chocolatier chocolates. I have levels of food snobbery. I'll also eat dirty fried chicken at 3am outside a London club.
You probably couldn't pay me to eat Hersheys though. Tried it once on holiday when I was about 11. Scarred for life.
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Hershey's tastes like clay. Like you were working on a pot and got hungry so decided to just have a little taste. I assume we can all agree that hershey's represents the bottom of the barrel.
Although that said I may have had worse in the form of the chocolate in a Kinder-egg, if you can even call that chocolate. That was like chocolate if chocoate was some sort of packaging material.
Sure, but was it packing material filled with chemicals?
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BruinsGal_91 wrote: »Yeah, sorry America. I love you so much that I became a citizen earlier this year, but Hershey's chocolate is really bad. Luckily I have a shop close by that sells British chocolate. And this is probably the reason why I'm on MFP.
Being American I feel like I can somehow talk for all Americans and say, don't worry about it...we know its bad.2 -
Maybe you SHOULD believe this will cause diabetes if it will help you develop better habits!1
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You know, I like hazelnuts. I'm talking about the actual nuts. Anything hazelnut flavored? Some of the most vile and disgusting *puppy* I've ever had the misfortune of tasting. Hazelnut coffee? Actually makes me (almost) hurl. Nutella? Other bastardizations of (good?) chocolate?
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I'm sure the UK has lovely chocolate, but the commercial stuff I've had from the there had an awful texture and aftertaste. Seriously, Aero? No thanks.1
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I'm sure the UK has lovely chocolate, but the commercial stuff I've had from the there had an awful texture and aftertaste. Seriously, Aero? No thanks.
That's what I was thinking too. I'm sure the good stuff is good (we have good stuff too, I have to say, defensively), but I think liking one mass market sort over another is more about what you grew up with. There used to be a shop near my place that sold UK mass market stuff not normally sold in the US, and I get why someone would be nostalgic for it and miss it, but I don't get that it is inherently better than US stuff of similar ilk. To my taste it is not, tastes weird. (And yet I'll enjoy some peanut M&Ms, no problem (or Ferraro Roche), and also some high quality local or imported chocolate.)
And don't get me started on the weird candy my Russian prof brought back after a trip there, back in college. Ugh.
*UK goods shop is now a Southern US/French fusion bakery that would be dangerous if it had more convenient hours.2
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