Chocolate Search

[Tonks]

> Geoff:
> The spelling is Lindt. They are a Swiss firm. Here, in the UK, for 
really top notch chocolate, we tend to go for Belgian.

Tonks:
I live in Michigan and I have never seen or hear of most of the 
names that were mentioned by those who live in NYC. (I don't go to 
the big cites like Detroit, etc. Too much traffic and I don't do 
large shopping centers anymore either.) 

I like milk chocolate and when I eat it I like to drink some milk 
with it. Dove is nice, Girardelli is nice, and Godiva has a really 
nice dark chocolate and raspberry one. We do have a small company in 
town that makes its own chocolates and it is very nice.  As to other 
US brands, Cadbury taste cheap, Hershey’s and Nestles are not as 
good as Dove. And none of it really gives what a real Seeker is 
looking for.

The real secret to good chocolate is, as someone said, the 
ingredients.  Too many companies use corn syrup.  That is like 
baking cookies and using margarine instead of butter. If you are 
gone to go to the trouble of making something, use the best 
ingredients. Up north we have a lot of companies that make fudge. 
The better ones show you how it is made and explain why theirs cost 
more because of better ingredients. 

The truth is, IMO, that the US can not make chocolate like the 
Europeans can.  When the Harry Potter candy first came out it was 
not available in the US. I got some on E-bay and it was wonderful.  
Honeydukes were my favorite. Chocolate frogs were great!! But when 
the US started making them, ugh!!  Only reason to buy them was for 
the trading cards. The candy wasn’t fit for consumption.  The only 
real good stuff that we can get here is Lindt, I like theirs best. 
But I still have not had a really good chocolate that I can say is 
the very best in the world. We do have a couple of stores here that 
import.  World Market being one of them. What name should I look for 
from Belgian?