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!

  • Jankatarch@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    6 hours ago

    People eat chocolate covered banana and nobody bats an eye, but I eat chocolate covered kebab onc…

  • rekabis@lemmy.caEnglish
    4·
    7 hours ago

    Oh, I violently disagree. I find your position to be almost repulsive.

    looks at name of sub

    …here, have an upvote.

  • dustyData@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    7 hours ago

    OK, I disagree but raise you one more. Chocolate covered popcorn and chocolate covered bacon are treats sent by the gods as the secret food of the initiated in the misteries of taste.

  • WIZARD POPE💫@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    6 hours ago

    Yeah nah that is a wrong opinion. Literally had a chocolate fondue yesterday and it was divine.

    As someone else saud seek help please.

  • BigBenis@lemmy.worldEnglish
    211·
    16 hours ago

    Upvote because your opinion is wrong.

    That said, the things you described seem like they have a high potential to be underwhelming. I’ve had versions of almost all of them where the chocolate is cheap, grainy and too sweet.

  • Scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.techEnglish
    1082·
    22 hours ago

    Interesting, an actual unpopular opinion! You get an upvoter because I disagree so heartily.

    Dark chocolate and orange are amazing together. So are dark cherries and chocolate.

    • thrawn@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      8·
      21 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·
        16 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.

    • Ŝan • 𐑖ƨɤ@piefed.zipEnglish
      817·
      21 hours ago

      So is everyþing else þey mentioned. Except chocolate covered raisins, but þat’s because I don’t like raisins. Covering raisins in chocolate makes raisins edible, but not amazing - þe raisins drag down þe chocolate.

      But, wiþ few exceptions (e.g. melons), chocolate plus fruit = ++good.

        • thrawn@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
          9·
          21 hours ago

          It’s their shtick, I’ve seen them around before. Though I wish people wouldn’t downvote their otherwise on-topic comments.

  • yesman@lemmy.worldEnglish
    542·
    21 hours ago

    Your argument is invalid because the coca bean is itself the fruiting body of the theobroma cacao; chocolate is a fruit.

    • iegod@lemmy.zipEnglish
      131·
      19 hours ago

      Heavily processed though, far cry from ‘fruit’ as we use the term.

      • ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
        12·
        17 hours ago

        By the lengthy process and how bad it is to begin with, I’m still amazed it was discovered and developed and made to taste so good. So many steps to get there.

  • SacralPlexus@lemmy.worldEnglish
    7·
    16 hours ago

    Finally someone else!

    I was a strong defender of this position for a long time. There is a Venn diagram with a circle of dairy in the center. It overlaps heavily with chocolate on one side and fruit on the other. But the fruit and chocolate circles should not touch.

    Or so I thought. One day a friend was arguing with me about this and she pointed out a banana split, which has all three. Ok so maybe the fruit and chocolate circles barely touch for this one exception but otherwise - say no to chocolate with fruit.

  • scytale@piefed.zipEnglish
    7·
    16 hours ago

    The problem is the ratios. All your examples are basically fruit as the main ingredient with chocolate as the accompanying ingredient. That just means you don’t like chocolate on your fruit.

    The other way around is better, chocolate with some fruit as accents. One of my favorite chocolates is a flat dark chocolate bar and small cranberry pieces that make the texture feel like a crunch bar, and the cranberry flavor is not strong enough to overpower the chocolate.

    • ulterno@programming.devEnglish
      0·
      8 hours ago

      Put it better than I would.

      Although some dry-fruits (I mean nuts, not dried-fruits) might do differently and be pretty good when wrapped in chocolate, most fruits are better off being present in tiny amounts to add flavour to the chocolate.

      I have tried a chocolate with orange rinds in it, which definitely does better then just normal picked rinds. Then one white-chocolate with little bits of cranberry and blueberry, which did pretty well too and while those berries might be tastier, that’s definitely a subjective thing and I might be in a mood for either one at any time.