The flavor and the texture are so much better than those bitter dark chocolate bars.
As a Belgian I consider myself a bit of an ambassador on chocolate and after discussing this with all my fellow countrymen we came to the unanimous conclusion that you are wrong. Please apologize and remove this post.
I asked the Netherlanders what they thought of your comment, and I couldn’t understand a fucking word they said, but they seemed angry.
Are you sure they weren’t American? We’re always getting angry at things we don’t understand.
As a Swiss I feel like I can easily out-ambassador you and I will disagree. White chocolate is awesome and OP should keep loving it.
Are saltine crackers your favorite potato chips?
His favorite movie is “books”!
Yeah I know white chocolate isn’t technically chocolate but it scratches the same itch for me.
I’d honestly go a different direction with the burn like white chocolate is to chocolate what sweet potato chips are to potato chips.
If we were to figure out where saltine crackers relate to potato chips in reference to chocolate or general sweets I’d say if potato chips are milk chocolate Hershey’s then saltine crackers are toffee.
Sweet potato chips are good though…
I hate sweet potatoes though
Well, can’t argue with that lol. I wonder which opinion on sweet potatoes is the unpopular one.
The real unpopular opinion is always in the comments
Out of curiosity, how do you feel about carrots (cooked and uncooked separately), and melons like honeydew and cantaloupe?
Asking because I dislike all of those (other than raw carrots) and wonder if it’s because they are all very high in vitamin A. I once overloaded from a single (extra strong) vitamin A supplement and wonder if I have some gene that increases my vitamin A intake or something.
White chocolate shouldn’t even be called chocolate.
I so agree. Its nice with strawberries. sorta like the way powdered sugar is.
white chocolate is made with cocoa butter
Going off of the comments already, I would say that this is a truly unpopular opinion. Well done, OP!
I can’t tell the pretentious assholes apart from the people jokily pretending to be pretentious assholes. Great stuff.
Maybe because it’s not chocolate and we should stop calling it this.
Depends! If you consider chocolate to be food derived from the cocoa bean, then white chocolate is chocolate because it’s made of cocoa butter without the solids!
The powdery stuff you call cocoa is what’s left over once you get rid of the cocoa butter. So if you feel that cocoa solids are required for something to be classified as chocolate… Then no, it’s not chocolate.
I guess it’s the same as asking if vegetable oil is a vegetable.
Now let´s also consider the fact that cocoa butter is free of chocolate flavor because all the chocolate flavor remains in the cocoa powder after the separation.
Hence white chocolate
white chocolate aka chocolate without any chocolate flavor
Chocolate is cocoa and cocoa butter by definition
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It scratches the same itch for me ¯\(ツ)/¯
White chocolate literally just tastes like sugar and fat. And “sour”??? What dark chocolate are you eating? This one actually pissed me off fr. Truly unpopular opinion.
My guess is they’re American and damaged by Hershey’s puke
As an American pushing 40, I will tell you, in my whole life, I have rarely ever seen someone just eating a Hershey bar. And I mean very rarely, like twice in my life. They are usually used in some other way like S’mores.
When someone wants just chocolate they grab something better like Ghirardelli or something.
Maybe they meant bitter.
Imagine not liking sugar and fat.
Not on its own!
I did a chocolate tour once. They explained that beans from certain places do have a more sour taste and some bars have it. Its been a while so I don’t even remember which beans it was but it is a real thing.
Im glad you like your sugary milky butter. Have the day you deserve.
Wait, is dark chocolate actually sour to you? Dark chocolate is definitely not sour for me. Bitter maybe, but absolutely not sour.
if they are American then dark chocolate can very well taste sour, look into what Hershey did, literally use soured milk to make chocolate…
In the US, we’ve gotten some really good chocolate over the last couple of decades and I’ve mostly avoided Hersheys over that time. We especially have some excellent dark chocolates. Your “bad chocolate” stereotype was all too true and may still be on average, but things are changing.
I’ve never tasted good white chocolate though
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I am not a native english speaker and i always forget about the word “bitter”, i will correct the post, thanks.
I also think white is better than dark chocolate, but what kind of dark chocolate you’re eating that’s sour? Dark chocolate is supposed to be bitter.
American chocolates (like Hershey’s) tend to taste more sour because they have more sugar and less cacao. The milk also tends to have a more butyric acid taste for some reason. Perhaps the difference is how the milk is treated, but those are trade secrets.
I was surprised the first time I bought a Hershey’s bar and it tasted a bit like vomit.
Same, my brother returned from the US and I was excited to try Hershey’s and was horrified to find it tasted like puke. The next one did too.
They all sat on the table for weeks before they got thrown away which is unheard of in our house with sweets.
Cadbury isn’t the best in the world or anything but not tasting like puke is like, up there in the list of things that make chocolate good.
butyric acid is more prevalent in US chocolate for some accident of history.
So, to non-Americans, American chocolate takes like vomit.
IIRC, this “accident” is simply because chocolate producers figured out it’s cheaper to make the milk slightly taste like vomit (something the Americans apparently didn’t mind too much) than cooling it properly. I think nowadays that wouldn’t really fly but back then cheaper chocolate was maybe so desirable that consumers didn’t mind the weird taste.
Adam Ragusea did a great video about the history of Hershey’s and how that flavor probably came to be so prevalent. Very worth the watch. https://youtu.be/J44svaQc5WY
That’s kind of fucked up. Especially since chocolate isn’t an essential food.
Same. Cadbury is pretty okay.
The process for making Hershey’s chocolate also produces butyric acid, which is the chemical that gives vomit its smell.
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US chocolate is really bad
But OP mentions dark chocolate, not milk chocolate
A lot of dark chocolate on the market contain milk even though they are not supposed to since they are processed with the same equipment. Some brands list milk in their dark chocolate ingredient label. Perhaps OP is very sensitive to that certain sour flavour.
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I’m not from the US
In think that’s the point. Most people on here soon to be American and so are basing their opinion on American chocolate (which is disgusting awful regardless of type)
So the only problem I have with white chocolate is that is seems soooo much sweeter. Like a sickly sweet. Its not bad just not my go to sweet
White chocolate is just sugary butter, you are a simpleton. Good day sir or madam.
It really isn’t. The key flavor factor of Chocolate is it’s bitterness.
White Chocolate totally sacrifices this flavor profile. If you prefer white chocolate you like sugar, not chocolate.
This. I despise how sweet white chocolate tastes. I like that rich bitterness to dark chocolate.
But I was the weird kid who grew up liking dark chocolate over milk chocolate.
Same, I used to eat it in very small amounts.
Or like both but prefer sugar (and fat carefully tempered to a delecate snap). But seriously if you don’t like sugar I don’t understand why you would be messing with chocolate anyway.
Incidentally try caramelising white chocolate. fucking great. Which I think supports the white choc ~= sugar hypothesis.
Caramelized white chocolate sounds delightful. Like dulce de leche.
I’m also a dulce de leche lover
If you’ve never tried it, take a can of sweetened condensed milk and simmer it (don’t boil!). It’ll take several hours simmering, but when you open the can you’ll end up with something very similar to dulce de leche inside.
I can get it from the store, but thanks for the tip!
“You want some chocolate with that sugar?”
Proper dark chocolate isn’t even good. Milk chocolate however is far better than white chocolate. White is just too… cloying?
Proper dark chocolate doesn’t have to be 100% cocoa solids. I agree that is too bitter, and I like a very dark chocolate.
There is a literal sweet spot for me, totally dependent on my taste and mood of the day where dark chocolate is just dark enough that fruity noted of the chocolate shine through the bitterness. Which is not to say that I don’t also love milk chocolate, sour milk chocolate aka Hershey’s, and white chocolate.
A good dark chocolate is one of my favourite things in the world. I’ve become a bit of a chocolate and coffee snob in my middle age.
Some of that stuff is only good to use in baking or otherwise as an ingredient.
There are some dark chocolates that are meant for dégustation as well but usually a bit lower on the cacao % and with complex flavour profiles kind of like wine.
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