On Dec 18, 11:00*pm, "Julie Bove" > wrote:
> "Janet" > wrote in message
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> > sf wrote:
> >> On Sat, 18 Dec 2010 12:28:53 -0800 (PST), John Kuthe
> >> > wrote:
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> >>> I've made some cherry/almond/marshmallow/dark chocolate candies and
> >>> may substitute English walnuts for the almonds, but I just bought
> >>> some dried sweetened pineapple and macadamia nuts and want to make a
> >>> pineapple/macadamia/marshmallow...
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> >>> And the question is: Milk or dark chocolate? I love dark, but I
> >>> already have one candy mix made with the dark chocolate, and I think
> >>> milk may actually be good with the pineapple/macadamias.
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> >>> What does RFC think?
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> >> I say go with dark. *Milk chocolate should be banned unless you can
> >> drink it.
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> > I like milk chocolate. That is, *good* milk chocolate. There can be quite
> > a difference. Good milk chocolate can have delicious caramel notes as well
> > as a significantly higher percentage of cacao. It gives a truffle
> > creaminess like nothing else.
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> > Unfortunately, many people think of Hershey bars when they think milk. It
> > is currently fashionable to affect a dislike of milk chocolate. Most
> > people who do so have never actually had a really good milk chocolate.
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> I find it hard to believe that a lot of people can't tell the difference
> between good and cheap chocolate. But they can't.

Most people don't care that much, or at all. But many can tell. I saw
that happen once while a housemate of mine had a couple of friends
over and there were making chocolate chip cookies. Which mostly they
were sitting around talking and eating the cookie dough ingredients.
They had purchased both Nestle's Semi-sweet chips in the yellow bag
and also some generic grocery store brand chips. Not that either were
what we chocolate connoisseurs would call good chocolate, but in
sampling both we all agreed that the Nestle's were better than the
grocery store brand. But we ate both, leading to append chocolate to
the old joke about why pizza is like sex, which is because when it's
good, it's REALLY good, and when it's bad, it's still pretty good!

Bad chocolate has to be pretty atrocious to be better than no
chocolate.

John Kuthe...