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Kenn159
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Step away from the chocolate and no one has to get hurt.  
This is a thread about all things chocolaty.
What is going on in the world of chocolate, or maybe just your little part of it.
Feel free to post.
I'll start
Have you seen Charlie and the chocolate factory and did you like it?.
Have you tried Breyers triple chocolate Ice cream?
[you must try it at least once before you die] 
Did you hear the Hershey's is removing cocoa butter from many of their chocolate bars? 
Article below
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About a year ago, a "citizen" petition was sent to the FDA, asking if chocolate manufacturers could replace cocoa butter in chocolate with "cocoa butter replacements" or "cocoa butter substitutes," while still calling the misbegotten product "chocolate." (I guess you can tell where I stand on that issue, and many of you have your own opinion.)
Believe it or not, despite the United States' bad reputation for chocolate, we're actually ahead of the European Union on this one. The EU version of this Standards of Identity (the documents that specify what ingredients can or cannot be in food, and what you can call them) allows manufacturers to substitute up to 5% of the cocoa butter in chocolate and still call the resultant—whatever it is but it's not chocolate as far as I am concerned—"chocolate."
That does not keep manufacturers from replacing the cocoa butter with other fats; they just can't call them chocolate anymore.
Hershey, for example, makes something called Special Dark® Chocolate. If you look at the label, you'll notice it's trademarked. Elsewhere on the label, there's the phrase mildly sweet chocolate, which means the chocolate conforms to the FDA Standard of Identity for "sweet chocolate." A look at the ingredients reveals the presence of milk fat and other dairy-derived ingredients, which enhance shelf life and contribute to the pasty texture.
Hershey has taken the next step in the process, replacing the cocoa butter in some of its chocolate with far less expensive vegetable oil. Of course, they can no longer call it chocolate or even milk chocolate, but they can call it "chocolate candy," or "chocolatey," or the even more obtuse and deliberately misleading: "made with chocolate."
Cybele May of Candy Blog says: "A lot of people don't notice it. The package looks exactly the same. I feel betrayed by Hershey's. They're giving me an inferior product and they're not even telling me. I call it mockolate, which is basically a fake chocolate product."
Consumer response to the changes is mixed in blind-tasting panels: some people prefer the new formulations over the old. When told about the changes, however, some consumers were alarmed, saying they felt "kind of cheated."
Perhaps more far-reaching in its implications is the fact that cocoa butter protects the antioxidant properties of the chocolate and does not raise cholesterol levels. From a calorie and fat content perspective, the mockolate may be similar to chocolate, but nutritionally, the reformulated products may fall short of predecessors. And consumers who read that chocolate is healthy, may not know the difference.
I have come to believe that manufacturers rely on the mental inertia of consumers. Once someone reads the ingredients and nutrition labels of a product (if they ever do) and decides the product is okay to throw in the shopping cart, they rarely go back and revisit the labels to determine if anything has changed. This is even the case when something is labeled "new" and "improved." New it may be, but does the "improvement" benefit the consumer or the manufacturer?
Do you prefer the new Hershey formulations to the old? Were you even aware of new formulations? Does a chocolate by any other name taste as sweet? Do you ever re-examine labels for products you've already decided are worth buying?
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| Feb 21 @ 3:16 PM |
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Gallows_Humor
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this Perhaps more far-reaching in its implications is the fact that cocoa butter protects the antioxidant properties of the chocolate and does not raise cholesterol levels. From a calorie and fat content perspective, the mockolate may be similar to chocolate, but nutritionally, the reformulated products may fall short of predecessors...... makes me... 
but on the otherhand...
when I want the good stuff...
http://www.ghirardelli.com/
rocks...
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| Feb 21 @ 3:17 PM |
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Snappygoddess
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I honestly do not eat much chocolate but when I do.. I want the real, good stuff 
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| Feb 21 @ 4:10 PM |
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Kenn159
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Me too, I don't eat it that often, but I do have to let go sometimes.
They don't call it the "food of the gods" for no reason.
Although I have found a food that I think equals it in awesomeness , it's a greek food called Dolmades. 
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| Feb 21 @ 6:38 PM |
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missliss78
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Right now I am enjoying a delicious Harry & David Chocolate Truffle that I gave myself for Valentine's Day~  Mmmmmmm
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| Feb 21 @ 6:42 PM |
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CPUfan
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Truffle eh... go for it !! And plenty of nuts in there too!! Just not that mushy white coloured stuff or all that other gunky stuff that just has chocolate on the outside... I mean what IS that... sort of sugary, treacly jucky gunge muck... in a lot of bars... and I don't mean the kind of bars I go into...
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| Feb 21 @ 7:20 PM |
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Gallows_Humor
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see it is true... americans speak proper english...
treacly jucky gunge muck
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| Feb 21 @ 9:15 PM |
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signme
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I just finished a box of Russel Stover chocolate I got for Valentines. And I have a few Hershey bars in the refrigerator. But I checked the labels and they still say "cocoa butter".
I LOVE CHOCOLATE!!!!!! 
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| Feb 21 @ 9:32 PM |
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1RockinDude
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Chocolate covered cherries...yummy
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| Feb 21 @ 9:34 PM |
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signme
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EWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW!! Rockin, that is one of 2 choclolate treats I don't like. And as a teacher, I get several boxes every Christmas! The other I don't like is chocolate and peanut butter. I love chocolate and I love peanut butter but can't stand them mixed!
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| Feb 21 @ 10:22 PM |
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daisy315
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if I eat chocolate.. which I seldom do, I want the real stuff.. no new and improved crap.. if it ain't broke, don't fix it.. but I am not surprised that Hersey is going cheaper seeing that they are moving their operation across the border..
give me a nice sweet Werthers soft caramel any day.. 
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| Feb 21 @ 10:29 PM |
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Gallows_Humor
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Hersey is going cheaper seeing that they are moving their operation across the border..
a sad day for america... 
 ..which border??
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| Feb 21 @ 10:34 PM |
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1RockinDude
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Sign...You can just send them to me
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| Feb 21 @ 10:37 PM |
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signme
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Will do, sweetie!
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| Feb 21 @ 10:40 PM |
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missliss78
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Chocolate covered cherries...yummy
The only chocolate covered cherries I care for are the Cella ones...100% liquid centers...with the cherry, of course. I can't stand the cordial ones with that thick gooey white stuff in them.
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| Feb 21 @ 11:10 PM |
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warrior674
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Did someone say chocolate? 
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| Feb 21 @ 11:39 PM |
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signme
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Uhhhhhhhhhhh Warrior, a whole bunch of us said "chocolate"!!!! Wake up!!!
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| Feb 21 @ 11:47 PM |
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warrior674
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Uhhhhhhhhhhh Warrior, a whole bunch of us said "chocolate"!!!! Wake up!!!
Well...I'm awake now! 
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| Feb 22 @ 12:00 AM |
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signme
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| Feb 22 @ 2:38 AM |
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daisy315
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geez gH.. it's probably a done deal now.. I read over a year ago that Hersey was packing up production and leaving Pennsylvania.. there was ahuge ruckus over it.. they probably headed to Mexico.. I'll try to find out .. when my brain clears.. 
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