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Co-Op Fair Trade 85% chocolate.

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Mark Parrott said:
I just can't eat milk chocolate anymore. Last time I tried it, it was like eating a bar of sugar.
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Haha! I know what you mean 🙂 I changed to skimmed milk about 20 years ago and now even semi-skilled tastes like drinking lard! 😱
 
I have just tried this I am not sure about, it had a bit of bitter taste to me!
 
Well tried again over the week end, can't say I liked it any better , it still tastes bitter to me! On the plus side I only ate 2 squares each time I have tried it, I don't think I have ever only eaten 2 squares of chocolate !
 
It will taste slightly bitter at first, you need to develop your taste for it! - one square at a time, and do NOT munch. Place a piece of the square on the tongue and allow it to melt, and gradually slide over the back of your tongue and down your throat ...... utterly FAB !!
 
When I was little and we used to go and visit my relations in Belgium, we used to go into the supermarkets and buy chocolate - because they did a version over there that i could eat a little bit of. It was, basically, what we know now as 85% (give or take) dark chocolate. But they called it 'Bitter' chocolate (as opposed to Dark or Milk). I guess, when it was bought out here in the mainstream, it was thought that calling something 'bitter' would put people off, so they just changed the name. But it is still, basically, that same bitter chocolate I used to love as a kid.
 
I like dropping a square into a cup of coffee rather than eating it.
 
Noticed today that my local Co-op has the 70% at £1, but the 85% is still £1.59 :(
 
When 'After Eight' first came out - they did an After Eight bitter dessert choc, in bars. What you thought was one decent sized bar was, when you opened the foil (the bar was in a cardboard sleeve) it was actually two thin bars. Absolutely divine!

Didn't make it for long - the Brits are too fond of sweet muck.
 
trophywench said:
When 'After Eight' first came out - they did an After Eight bitter dessert choc, in bars. What you thought was one decent sized bar was, when you opened the foil (the bar was in a cardboard sleeve) it was actually two thin bars. Absolutely divine!

Didn't make it for long - the Brits are too fond of sweet muck.
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Ooh, I remember that! Well, I mean, I'd forgotten it ever existed til you mentioned it, but yes, divine!
 
Never heard of it maybe it was a regional thing, as they used to introduce stuff regionally to test the market!
 
Robin said:
Ah well, I'm 60, but I got hooked on dark chocolate at a very early age.
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And me (hooked, I'm 66 LOL) - my mum's favourites were Black Magic and I developed a definite love of them when I was pre-school. She did make them last, by only having one at a time, perhaps two in an evening - but at home on our own, listening to Woman's Hour - they sometimes appeared - and I adored Butterscotch, which neither she nor my sister really enjoyed ... the rest is history, as they say!
 
I've always loved dark chocolate, even as a child I would choose a bar of Bournville over anything else. I now know that's only 35% so not too dark. Even before D I ate 70%, as a complete chocoholic I have had to train myself to like 85%, otherwise life wouldn't be worth living! Lol! BTW, I made chilli con carne for tea last night and in true Mexican style added a couple of squares of 85%, they use 100% I think, but I've never come across that. Don't know whether I'm chocoholic enough for that! :-D
 
eggyg said:
I've always loved dark chocolate, even as a child I would choose a bar of Bournville over anything else. I now know that's only 35% so not too dark. Even before D I ate 70%, as a complete chocoholic I have had to train myself to like 85%, otherwise life wouldn't be worth living! Lol! BTW, I made chilli con carne for tea last night and in true Mexican style added a couple of squares of 85%, they use 100% I think, but I've never come across that. Don't know whether I'm chocoholic enough for that! :-D
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Lindt do a 90% - found that a bit much for me though 🙂 I'm making a chilli in a few days so will try to remember the tip about chocolate, I keep forgetting! 🙄
 
eggyg said:
I've always loved dark chocolate, even as a child I would choose a bar of Bournville over anything else. I now know that's only 35% so not too dark. Even before D I ate 70%, as a complete chocoholic I have had to train myself to like 85%, otherwise life wouldn't be worth living! Lol! BTW, I made chilli con carne for tea last night and in true Mexican style added a couple of squares of 85%, they use 100% I think, but I've never come across that. Don't know whether I'm chocoholic enough for that! :-D
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You can buy the 100%stuff on Amazon - I use the Bakers version. Quite expensive though...
 
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