I feel like I’m the only one in my life who holds this opinion, but I have never tasted a combination of chocolate and fruit that wasn’t significantly worse than the individual components.

  • Chocolate covered raisins? Blegh.
  • Chocolate dipped strawberries? I’ll eat the shell then the rest.
  • Raspberry bits in fancy chocolate? You’ve ruined it.
  • Candied apple? Just plain caramel please, no chocolate.
  • Chocolate fondue? I’ll stick to the marshmallows and graham crackers, thanks.
  • Gorp mix? I’m selecting handfuls with either raisins + peanuts or m&ms + peanuts, no blending.

Now I know taste buds are subjective, but how is it that folks will say a mixed bowl of m&ms and skittles is diabolical, yet happily chow down on other fruity chocolate combos? Give me my delicious fruit and chocolate - separately!

  • thrawn@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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    23 hours ago

    I’d like to think I’ve got a pretty adventurous palette, and I’ve tried all kinds of fruits with chocolate; fresh, dried, in various preparations, and while some are tolerable, is just tolerable really what you want when reaching for a treat?

    I was about to use your mention of cherries and say that a German chocolate cake is far superior to a black forest cake, but that had me realize - is coconut a fruit? Perhaps I’ve got one exception…

    • SparroHawc@lemmy.zipEnglish
      3·
      18 hours ago

      Coconuts are just really, really big seeds. They’re a nut, as the name implies.

      However, I have a counterpoint because there is one fruit that I absolutely like with chocolate. Dried mango slices in dark chocolate are delicous.

      Well, okay, two - bananas in chocolate are tasty. Back in the times when chocolate fountains were a regular occurrence at events, I could have eaten half my body weight in them.

      Bananas makes sense in my mind; they aren’t overly flavorful, so there isn’t a strong fruit flavor that clashes with the chocolate. Why mangoes work so well, on the other hand, is beyond me.