Chocolate Search

[sistermagpie]

Tonks:
> 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. 


Magpie:
I'm pretty sure this is literally true. I can't remember where I was 
reading this recently--I'll try to look it up. It wasn't the 
ingredients, but something about the process of actually making the 
stuff. Basically, there's a process for making chocolate out of the 
beans or whatever, and there were different ways that people tried to 
do it. Hershey was I believe the person who got it to work in the US, 
but his method is different--and inferior--to whatever was discovered 
elsewhere. And that's why US chocolate has a sort of waxiness that's 
inferior to the way chocolate tastes outside of the US. 

I'll try to find the thing where I was reading this recently.

-m