What's some REAL good high-quality chocolate? I mean the

Hersheys

>>7319002
You'll have to hit up your local chocolatier.

>>7319031
My town lacks that.

My town is pure pleb.

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>>7319002
Leonidas is incredible. Probably the best chocolate I've ever tasted.

>>7319074
Leonidas sucks compared to Neuhaus and Pierre Marcolini.
It's tourist chocolate.

>>7319079
I went to a Neuhaus factory in Belgium. It has a factory shop and I bought 3kg (7lbs) of their chocolate for 40€ all together (3 different kinds). Best day of my life.

>>7319079
As an American I haven't heard of those but I definitely believe you. Even if Leonidas is tourist chocolate it's still very good.

>>7319087
Yes it's truly something else. Buying in bulk from the factory is a great idea if you want to share with family and friends!
Every time I go to Belgium I bring home beer and a box of Neuhaus.

>>7319097
Don't get me wrong, it's very good chocolate compared to almost anything you can get in a normal shop.
It's just hard to appreciate the above average when you grew up in Belgium and could always get the best. At least nobody has posted sea shells from Guylian yet!

>>7319098
>Every time I go to Belgium I bring home beer and a box of Neuhaus.
I want to go to Belgium and do this

>>7319109
>Rochefort 10 and 8
>Delirium Tremens
>Chimay Bleue
-Four amazing beers that you can pick up for cheap in a supermarket like Delhaize.

You can get most of the best chocolates at Galeries Royales Saint-Hubert right by Grand Place, but they also sell them at the airport.

>>7319053
order it online

Teuscher.

>>7319103
What's the deal with the shells? Momma used to bring home a box of these from her work

>>7319264
It's great chocolate, but the price is ridiculous. Unless you have the money to frequent Michelin star restaurants, Teuscher isn't worth it.

>>7319269
For some reason, many foreigners think of Guylian when they think of Belgian chocolate. I guess they are very recognisable and somewhat decorative, although they look pretty tacky to me. The taste is mediocre.

>>7319031
>Implying the "local chocolatier" for these flyover fuckboys is not the checkout late at Wal-Mart.

Fuggin' keked

>>7319031
>the local "x"

stop this meme

>>7319344

>2016 still using """kek""""

Well memed

>>7319002
high quality chocolate is 100% cocoa. I isn't $20 per oz. You're basically overpaying for sugar and milk.

>>7319002
Godiva is really pretty much shit tier. If you just want high quality raw material, you don't need to pay $20/oz. What you're getting with that kind of money is labor intensive one-off concoctions - ganache filled this and that with sea smoke and etc.

If you just want high quality material, cluizel or valrhona is fine.

>>7319087
>>7319079
Neuhaus is pretty damm touristy, I don't know what universe you people live in. You sound like the kind of people who go to NYC and line up for Magnolia cupcakes and think you're "off the beaten track"

>>7319478
Godiva is shit tier? Please, shitpost harder.

Neuhaus is well known and available across the world because it's consistently outstanding and they literally invented pralines.
Leonidas is the brand you pick because it's the lowest kg price on a shelf of Belgian chocolate.

If OP wanted a bar of plain chocolate you can find in a supermarket, he probably wouldn't have attached a picture of Godiva.

>>7320546
It tastes like candle wax. This is a fact.

>>7320566
0/10
go back to /b/

>>7320573
>having taste buds is not allowed around here
You'll fit right in, see you in the joey thread! Nice things are a scam!

>>7320566
>>7320597
I've seen thousands of shitty attempts at trolling, but holy shit...

>>7320609
>facts are trolling
Godiva is fast food chocolate, you passportless flyover. I bet you think Starbucks is fancy.

>>7320613
How many bottles have you pissed in this month?

>>7320629
Only your mother's face. I'm not into that shit but she begged me. She's a filthy animal.

>>7320566
>>7320597
>>7320613
>>7320631
your mum will be disappointed when she finds out you managed to bypass the parental control on her iPad

>>7320546
>Godiva is shit tier? Please, shitpost harder.

Godiva employee pls

>>7320647
Could just be a 49 year old cat lady from Nebraska

>>7320647
>>7320670
>"if I samefag some more, I will finally manage to troll someone"

>>7320683
>if I stamp my feet and call it trolling, reality itself will change
Nope
Also, 2 different people

>>7319002
>The $20 per oz. Shit
No chocolate is worth nearly that much

>>7320716
Reality is that Godiva is pretty good, and hating it because it's popular and easy to find does not make you a unique snowflake with a sophisticated palate.

>>7320793
>Reality is that Godiva is pretty good

Nah.

>>7319002
Good brands that are coffee flavored?
Coffee chocolate is the best but it's hard to find.

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>>7320974

>>7320978
£1.63 for a bar of that on an import site ;-;

>>7320793
>Godiva is pretty good
Heheheh

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this shit is so good mmm

>>7321164
>Lindt
>so good

pick one

>>7319156
>Rochefort 10 for cheap
All my want. It's $15 a bottle where I live.

>>7319002
Fazer

>>7319344
Because everyone knows that your geography makes a difference

>>7321164
The Lindt with orange and almond slivers is my snack for the week. So fucking good.

>>7320732
Impoverished flyover confirmed.

>>7321525
Are you retarded? Of course it makes a difference. You really think Billy Bob Inbred from Pisswater Nebraska has access in his immediate area to someone in a big city?

End your life.

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>>7322090
I fell in love with Lindt's orange and pistachio bar.

>>7322708
>not having a French chocolatier move to your pleb town to open up a small business and enjoy the slow life

You're smalltime.

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West Coast is best coast because we have See's.

>>7322749
I used to love that shit when I was a kid in the 80s

I don't know if I changed, or if it changed, but it isn't good anymore

>>7322743
Because that actually happens. Flyovers don't support those kinds of businesses, they just waddle off to Wal-Mart. Artisan types places don't last in flyoverland.

>>7322749

You unfortunately lack Fannie Mays.

>>7322771
Truth. Even if they had any interest in supporting small businesses (which they don't despite pretending that they do), they wouldn't know the difference because they've been raised to be deeply hostile to any food that dares to rise above the most basic awful garbage. They regard this as being "pretentious" and any differences are actually a figment of your imagination, caused by hipsters putting on airs.

>>7322778
That's the saddest part about the flyover states.
They only accept food that's been deep fried 13 times and then fry it once more when they get home just to be sure.
At least they should all die of a heart attack in the next 20 years and make room for people who don't want to be forever stuck with the pathetically inbred food scene they've created.

>>7319031
>Tfw miss living in a small coastal town in France
>Chocolatier was right around the block and another was a 5 min away
>Boss ass chocolate bars for 7€
>all kinds of fancy chocolate sculptures during the holidays
>come back to the states
>cry

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>>7322778
>Halfway-decent eatery opens in my little flyover town
>Serve really good artisan coffee
>Tastes amazing
>Flyover locals begin to complain that $2.00 is too expensive for a cup of coffee (you get fucking free refills for fuck sake)
>Constantly hear locals talking about how they "can't tell the difference" and wish they could just serve "regular" coffee
>Place has only been there 2 months and owner is already talking about possibly having to close up due to lack of patronage
>The local McDonald's has a a line of cars backed up to the highway every single day at meal times
>Mfw

>>7319002
diminishing returns after $5/oz

>>7321164
just buy bakers chocolate

>>7322749
Diabetus never looked so good.

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>>7319002
El Rey. Its reasonably priced online and its as high quality as Callebaut or Vahlrona. For finished chocolate we like Vosges Haut in my family because its owned by a Macedonian woman.
If you are willing to look outside of Chocolate I've met the owners of pic related.

>>7322749
Why is the woman on the far left's forehead so bulbous?

>>7319002
A Cocoa farmer

Base chocolate is all the same, since it's a natural product that goes under the same processes.

For "artisan chocolates", which is what I believe you're after, then I would suggest European and Japanese chocolates that have been fortified, spiced and contain flecks of gold. Some even include blood (seriously, in japan menstrual blood is considered magical) or even ash (from monuments; arabs consider it less magical and more of a thing that only the super rich can buy).

That stuff is actually too expensive and they don't sell to people without Black Cards.
We're talking 10k a bite.

But if you're a civilian looking for affordable artisan chocolates, I would suggest:
http://royceconfectusa.com/

>>7322708
>>7322743
>>7322771
This isn't 1925 anymore

>>7323251
Watch out. These pretentious fags will say your tastes aren't refined enough to appreciate the nuances from a master artisan chocolatiere

>>7324182
Go bath in Hershey's, ketchup and mayonnaise you inbred flyover fuckboy.

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>high price equals good meme

lmao

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The only true answer

>>7327477
That looks ass-nasty, couldn't they take a picture of a bar that doesn't look like it was dropped on a dirty carpet?

>>7327499

It's from a vice article basically saying why Mast Brothers chocolate is shit.

https://news.vice.com/article/slave-labor-the-mast-brothers-and-the-looming-crisis-of-cheap-chocolate-1

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>>7327502
Holy shit what a pair of punchable fags

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> the brothers' wildly popular chocolate, made in Brooklyn, New York

because of course it is...

>>7319002
noka

>>7323251
Gonna have to agree with that. It's like >$30 bottles of wine. At some point you're just buying the label. And that's cool. Some people like spending assloads of money for something that's just a tiny bit better, if at all.

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this is my favourite chocolate

>>7330399
Some people like exploring new flavors. I guess /ck/ wouldn't understand that.

>>7319002
Just make your own.

>>7330543
its all chocolate, its not 'new' flavors, its slight variations on a common flavor

>>7320546
Fuck off shill, errybody knows Godiva's ingredients are shit

>>7321015
for real? 99c here at the dollar store in canada. find a friend to send you some in the mail.

>>7320793
no it's not

>>7320978


that's not even chocolate though have you even bothered reading the ingredients?

I went to a place in the UK called Kennedy's but i think it was a single store in the middle of fuck nowhere. Exceptionally expensive too. $35 for like, 32 chocolates. But really, it's some of the best I've ever eaten. Every flavour tastes absolutely natural and not in the slightest bit artificial. Apple pie flavour chocolate? Tastes like a fucking apple pie. Banoffee? Tastes like a freshly bought banana with some kickass toffee. I'm genuinely taken aback by how good it was. I feel bad that I can't go back any time soon.

>>7330578
Uh, yes. Exactly. Same as with wine. I guess /ck/ really doesn't understand that.

You know who has some surprisingly good chocolate for a really reasonably price? Costco. No joke. If you're buying somebody a box of chocolates, christmas or whatever, go to Costco.

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Why do you care? You're a nigger, you won't be able to tell the diference.

>>7330578
While I agree for plain chocolate, there are definitely some cases where paying premium for the added flavours is acceptable. For example I buy violet cream truffles from my local chocolatier and no other chocolate tastes anything like it and i happily pay premium for it.

Everytime someone gets me "belgium" chocolate it tastes like fucking ass. Either my taste has been fucked because of simple confectionery or this shit is overrated.

>>7330975
"belgian" chocolate means it's from belgium. It says nothing about its composition. It's not a style. It's an advertising tool