Roy said that perhaps "people here do ...not share the same interest with
you on such matters< sigh>." I don't think this is true. I think most
chocolate-lovers have found a decent source of their favorite chocolate;
rather than embarking upon a worldwide search for the chocolate loved most
by the masses, they have found the chocolate(s) they like the most and have
established a way of getting that conveniently.

"Jarkko" > wrote in message
...
> But is not the best chocolate the one, that my/your mouth says is the
> best?

This is true, but you're making the assumption that people throughout the
world have ACCESS to samples of the best chocolates, and that the masses
have made their decision based on that. In the USA, this is totally NOT
true. We buy what's convenient to buy, and "convenient" means what's sold
in our local grocery store.

Therefore, until I actually went searching a couple years ago, most
Americans (I can't speak for any other country) have never even tasted
another chocolate than Hershey's or Nestle. In fact, most probably don't
know that another kind of chocolate exists! (As for myself, I was dimly
aware that there were other chocolates in the world, but I was happy with
Hershey's.)

> I don't get this sentence. Do you mean that the chocolate that the masses
> like most, is not to your liking? But isn't democracy all about the vote
> of
> the majority? I don't mean to be political in any way, but I just don't
> understand what you mean.

(As an aside - perhaps it's different in Finland, but the USA is a republic,
not a democracy...but that's another discussion.) Even in a democracy,
there have to be candidates to select from. The selection will therefore be
imperfect if there is a limited selection of candidates. This is just what
we have here in the USA when it comes to chocolate you can find on grocery
shelves...though that's changing a bit as the word about healthy dark
chocolate gets out. I even found a Lindt 70% display case at my local
convenience store!

> Well, this was just an idea I had. My world will not collapse even if this
> didn't work out :-)

Not to worry, it was a great idea. And there are indeed some chocolates
liked by the masses that perhaps you have never tasted. But these tend to
at least be available by mail or in a large city (there's a small store that
sells only foods imported from Switzerland here in Portland, Oregon).

Geoff