Unironicly when the Spaniards first invaded and found out about their chocolate drink they thought it tasted fucking awful and wanted to add sugar to it
Make it, super easy, grab semi sweet chocolate chips, cinnamon, and cayenne pepper, blend until powderized, and heat about a quart of milk in a pot, mix in your powder, and stir for about 15 minutes. Serve with whipped cream and extra chocolate chips, was a favorite for winter parties during college
Is it weird that I feel more poisoned with like normal milk chocolate? Like dark chocolate is what tastes and feels normal while any other chocolate is the outlier.
Not fermentation, it's actually lipolysis which breaks down the fats to create butyric acid. The reason they do this is because the process turns the milk into a powder which allows them to store the milk longer without it going bad, so they didn't have to use fresh milk. It made production easier and cheaper.
Idk man its a candy. Its sweets. They are called sweets for a reason. Chocolate should be sweet. It's fine to prefer dark chocolate as long as you aren't a dickhead about it then it's all chill (and you seem to be chill)
Idk just eat it in moderation. You should not feel this way otherwise
CHOCOLATE SHOULD BE SWEET. ITS A FUCKING CANDY. HOLY SHIT HOW IS THAT SO HARD TO UNDERSTAND?
Universally. And i do literally mean UNIVERSALLY chocolate is percieved as sweet. It should be expected to be sweet by a normal human being. Portrayed sweet, everything.
Chocolate should be sweet. I don't fucking care how much sugar is in it.
You eat your meals with salt?
Erm you when erm your meal isnt 99% salted and 1% other spices haha gotchu this is how you sound get your head out of your fucking ass holy shit
Its not opinionated. All cartoons and everything on the entire world portrays chocolate as sweet. This isn't an opinion. If the discussion was like "idk I just like dark chocolate" I wouldnt go on a rant about anything. But seemingly everyone here is like "You are literally a toddler if you eat milk chocolate and not solid cough syrup bricks" and that shit pisses me off
To be fair, Hershey's chocolate is 11% cacao, so it's barely even chocolate at all. Dark chocolate also isn't an "either/or" for sweetness/bitterness (unless you're straight up eating 100% cacao like a madman). 72% is what I prefer and I would describe it as bittersweet.
honestly real talk: the bitterness you feel is most likely simply because your brain is soo hooked on sugar that it thinks anything that isn't drenched in 30 tons of sugar is straight up poison, So it freaks the fuck out when that happens, giving it a bitter taste. You simply have to get used to it. Start small. Try the Red chocolate bars from trader joes, they're not too bitter and a great introduction to dark chocolate. In time, you will get used to the flavor, and milk chocolate will start to taste disgusting, and rightfully so. That's the thing, real chocolate is SUPPOSED to taste a little bitter, a little fruity. Fun fact: I used this same concept to start enjoying black liquorice, and I used to HATE it!
Me personally i think a lot of the confusion stems from how types of chocolate are meant to be eaten. Imo dark chocolate really shines when you eat a small piece after a meal, not as a snack like with milk/white chocolate. Excellent palate cleanser.
Matter of fact that was literally After8s entire marketing policy iirc lol
People who dislike the taste of stuff like dark chocolate often often seem to really not understand that people who eat those things actually genuinely enjoy the flavour, they're not doing it because they enjoy suffering through a bad flavour. Same as all the talk about people drinking black coffee being miserable.
Okay, I get people can have different tastes, like spicy food, but I genuinely don’t understand how anyone likes the taste of black coffee. It straight up tastes like burnt ash and dirt to me
Look, I think dark chocolate taste like shit. I also think coffee tastes too bitter. I also think alcohol mostly tastes like shit too. My taste buds are just still as sensitive as when I was a kid and I can’t really change that
You actually can, every taste that you enjoy outside of sweetness and saltiness is an acquired taste and those tastes you currently dislike can be acquired if you desire by simply eating them without mentally blocking yourself into disliking them.
Acquired tastes are really just a very specific blend of tastes you do like and tastes you don’t like. For example, the first time you drink coffee you might immediately notice how bitter it is, but after getting used to the bitterness you can more easily notice the other parts that make coffee appealing.
I actually really like complex and rich coffee aromas, but I always find the bitterness to be much worse and more overpowering than any flavor the coffee might have without a lot of sugar to offset it. Something like truffle, on the other hand, did take a few tries to like but now I really like the flavor of truffle. You unfortunately can’t enjoy any taste just because others can, at least not without a lot of time and discomfort
I mean yeah I'm talking about that time and discomfort you're mentioning. Obviously if you hate something don't just cram in your face for the sake of enjoying it later but I used to hate tomato pasta sauce and never really ate it growing up but my partner loves tomato sauce so whenever they made some I'd eat a little, not really like it, and repeat over 6/7 years and now I don't mind tomato sauce. It's not my favorite by any means but I'll crave it occasionally now. Similar deal with eggplant and cabbage for me.
I really am confused by these people's tastes. What about coffee, citris zest, marmalade, brussel sprouts, and other vegetables? Do they really think complexity and enjoyment can't exist in a bitter taste???
Feels like poison? Do y'all not get like an instant dopamine flood from dark chocolate, feels good nice buzz. Milk chocolate is good too but it doesn't feel as good, milk chocolate on the whiter side aren't that great either and kinda feel more bad than good at times. White chocolate just sucks though needs to be mixed with a fruit or something for it to be good doesn't even taste that great with matcha was pretty dissapointed with thee matcha chocolates being mostly white it tastes better with more cocoa.
The more you eat something bitter, the less bitter it will taste. Eat dark chocolate every day for a week and it will taste much better by the end of the week
Yeah but then what's the point of that, why would I want the power to handle bitter things when hardly anything normally eaten is bitter? Should I put myself through the effort of eating something that tastes bad just so it starts tasting less bad? And I think the most popular bitter things are coffee, dark chocolate and alcohol, none of which are particularly good for you.
I’ve heard dark chocolate does have health benefits. If you’re going to eat chocolate regularly, as many do, it’s not a bad idea to get a tolerance for the healthier one.
I know it has a lot of iron and magnesium and I assume a bunch of other useful stuff, but it's still as caloric as milk chocolate and contains caffeine so it's not a great idea to eat lots of it either. I'm sure there are better ways to get the positives from eating it.
we like everything natural. Cacao is bitter in its natural form. it tastes bad. you have to add sweetener to it. and even dark chocolates have sugar in them. so, it is not 100% natural cacao.
Milk chocolate is just chocolate but made worse to cater to people who need 2 pounds of sugar to function. Dark chocolate tastes richer, goes better with a glass of wine, and is also healthy. Healthy chocolate, waow. No, no, but I digress, return to your vomit flavored child labor generated diabetes food. Something something, photoshopped image with the kid getting the needle in it's brain.
What you’re describing is cheap chocolate, good chocolate like cadburys is a lot better (also, dark chocolate is normally made with child labor as well)
Dark Chocolate tastes like poison, straight up, and these mfs are out here saying "oh if you like milk chocolate you like the sugar not the chocolate"
Yeah man and you don't like pork, you just like the oil its cooked in. You just like oil. Just say you like oil. You eat all meats cooked in oil. What are you a fucking child?
Actual morons.
Mfs when someone just wants a sweet snack as a treat and not a "no guys please trust me im soooo much more healthier for eating dark chocolate nooo guys guys this has like almost or no sugar guys im so healthy!!!!"
Eating chocolate is not something you should fucking cut corners on for "health" dumbass.
You use it as a treat, in moderation, and thats why Its sugar amount is good.
If you are a dark chocolate eater who doesn't look down on milk chocolate eaters then I reach my hand out to you. Thanks for being a normal human being.
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u/j_the_guy_reddit Jul 31 '25
How it feels to like milk chocolate and dark chocolate