• shalafi@lemmy.world
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    13 days ago

    Never liked milk chocolate past childhood, never understood why people don’t like dark.

    Then I read Europeans here and on reddit talking about American milk chocolate tasting like vomit. Now I can taste it. Thanks for fucking me up Eurotrash! I’d have preferred to remain ignorant about that particular thing. Next you’ll tell me American cheese isn’t real cheese.

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      It’s because Hershey’s adds butyric acid. You can try another brand if you want.

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      American coffee or chocolate wouldn’t even be recognised as such by Europeans.
      It just tasted weird and unfamiliar with a hint of what it was supposed to be.
      But good I guess, why waste quality on the US since they don’t kow better.
      Pearls before swines.

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    13 days ago

    What do you mean sugar? It’s called milk chocolate because there’s milk in it.

    • Marabou 52g sugar
    • Lindt 48g sugar
    • Cloetta “no added sugar” 25g polyols
    • Coop 53g

    This is just a small sample from a grocery store. Sure there exist low-sugar dark chocolates, but it isn’t the default that distinguishes it from milk chocolate.

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    I’m violently allergic to sugar. (Ok, technically “allergic” isn’t the right word. Apparently allergies can only be to proteins specifically. So technically what I have is a sensitivity to sugar, not an allergy. But “sensitivity” sounds way less severe than “allergy”.)

    There was a long period of time when my preferred vehicle for caffeine consumption was unsweetened baker’s chocolate. I’d just suck on it. And legitimately enjoy it.

    The only reason I quit doing that was because I decided my life is better entirely without caffeine than with. I do very occasionally still microdose it. Like to the tune of 1/32 of an ounce of baker’s chocolate no more than once a week. I miss eating it by the half-ounce, though. I still crave it sometimes.

    • shalafi@lemmy.world
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      13 days ago

      Chocolate is said to be an anti depressant, and I’ve felt that effect. No placebo thing in my case, never ate dark chocolate for the effect, always surprised when it hits.

      “Well fuck me I feel great for once. Wonder what happened.” After many, many events, finally put two and two together. And I have once again forgotten. Guess I need to buy some and really experiment.

      I’m a little shocked that the tiny amount of caffeine effects you at all. Reminds me of my sister drinking a glass of tea and getting wired up and having to pee a bunch. :)

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        13 days ago

        Is that the reason for your username.

        Lol. Nope. I joined Mastodon before I joined Lemmy. And on Mastodon they call messages “toots” (or at least used to.) Aside from that, it’s just a play on “tout suite”. (And then I proceeded to never participate on Mastodon at all. Heh.)

        Also why not black coffee or tea?

        a) comparative pain in the ass to prepare, b) I like the taste better, c) why drink watered-down rich and tasty when you can eat solid rich and tasty, d) if the coffee’s made already, I’m not saying I’d turn it down, it just wasn’t my go-to source for caffeine.

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    13 days ago

    Not too good full autistic but those aren’t the same thing. Milk chocolate is made by taking plain chocolate and just mixing in milk and sugar.

    Pickling and cooking are chemical reactions that actually physically change the food you are eating. So a pickle isn’t just a cucumber + vinegar. A pickle is fundamentally chamicslly different to a cucumber. Same with cooking chicken.

    A better example would be coffee or tea, saying that if you don’t like black coffee but like lattes then you like milk and sugar more than coffee.

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      13 days ago

      I made some pickled beetroot today and had a few slices extra. Tried a few with vinegar on top and unsurprisingly it doesn’t taste anything like the finished pickled beetroot would.