camstory said:
Shaun__ said:
Isabella_deL said:
You know, American chocolate kind of sucks compared to the stuff you get in england/europe, but one thing that I am so bloody glad has been brought over here are Oreo's!
They're kind of gross how sweet they are and almost and hurt your teeth, but they're also so amazing! There is something about them that I love! And now I have black crumbs all over my boobs! :-D
We have good dark chocolate here too, but it costs more than the regular kind.
Yes IMO dark chocolate is real chocolate, (I have no idea if that has any basis in fact), but milk chocolate is just that crap we cover our fast food candy bars with. Eating dark chocolate covered Espresso Beans as I type.
The difference is basically the % of Cocoa in it. I've had 99+% chocolate bars before. Basically it's just made with cocoa and cocoa butter. Dark chocolate is sweetened chocolate, it's chocolate (cocoa) and sugar. Milk chocolate replaces some of the fat (cocoa butter) and sugar with milk. Bitter chocolate is without sugar, or very little sugar. But it's all real chocolate. The US has a much lower minimum percentage of actual cocoa for chocolate than Europe does. Milk Chocolate: US 10%, EU 25%, etc.
There's also the matter of the "Hershey Process" which produces a cheaper product along with other benefits but it imparts a slightly tangy flavor to the chocolate.
So it's likely those two things in combination that make them different. But they all contain (real) chocolate, it's just how much and what form (powder, liquor, butter). So a US bar of milk chocolate can contain much less chocolate, and be produced much easier and cheaper with a byproduct of a tangy flavor that the US is fairly accustomed to.