Did anyone watch the three part series, Willie's Chocolate Revolution, on Channel 4?

It was interesting to see how few of the ten so-called 'chocoholic' volunteers didn't like his new 'black chocolate'. One of them openly admitted that she now realised her addiction was in fact to sugar, not chocolate per se.

I'm a huge fan of dark chocolate - the higher the cocoa content, the more I like it! I'm definitely going to be trying some of his chocolate bars, which I believe are being sold in Waitrose.

For anyone turning up their nose at the thought of 100% cocoa chocolate - it's full of all the vitamins and minerals found in the natural bean and won't make you fat either! No poundage boosting sugar, fat or additives that the milk variety is laden with.

Dark chocolate is also an energy booster, both for the brain and the body, along with additional aphrodisiac attributes

Must try that

I like the Green and Blacks dark chocolate

Oooooh I absolutely adore dark chocolate And another advantage has got to be that you tend not to be able to eat that much at once so it lasts loads longer

I think my favourite has to be Lindt (or however you spell it ) 80%.

That's usually the one I eat - the 85% variety, but I was in Tesco yesterday and thought I'd give the new 90% Lindt bar a try this week...... I shall update


Absolutely. In fact, that was one point raised in the programme. Chocolate should give such a kick, that you don't want to eat more than one or two pieces at a time.

And they do a 90% bar now too..... (go on, you know you want to try it)

Another one to try! I don't like the Lindt milk chocolate and haven't tried the dark.

It's true - a couple of square of really dark chocolate with a cup of coffee is usually enough for me in one go.

It is very good - and I much prefer dark over milk chocolate...

white choc is nice too...

Never been much of a fan of white chocolate. Don't even really like Milkybars that much...

I too am a dark chocolate fan.

At Easter I never buy the children Easter Eggs as I cant bear the rubbish choc they sell, so I go to the chocolatiers and buy very dark chocolate for Adult relatives & friends. It costs a fortune but the kids cant stand it so they never try to pinch any.

I certainly intend to try Willies Chocolate as I am very curious after watching his trials and tribulations to get the product out successfully.

White chocolate for me Anything over about 40% I find too bitter - I'm quite happily aware it's the sugar that does it for me. White chocolate - "all the cocoa fat, none of the cocoa solids" as it was once described to me - I just can not resist!

However, we should all be aware that cocoa trees are under threat from disease, the future could be very sad indeed See here for details...

I like mostly any kind of chocolate but I can't eat a lot at once even if it's plain milk choc. Maybe because I eat bad quality ones?

i prefer dark to milk chocolate and did enjoy the programmes

I love Green and Blacks milk and their creamy milk, but I do have a sweet tooth. I buy dark for my husband, my sister and her son - she was carefully training him to like dark chocolate while mine were munching Cadbury's Buttons. We're lucky here to have a wonderful chocolatier who makes her own chocolate on the premises (yesterday she was making rose creams) and all of her chocolate, whether it's white, milk or dark, is scrumptious

Oh dear! All that talk about chocolate earlier....

I remembered we had a couple of creme egg Easter eggs at the back of the cupboard we were saving.. for Easter. Thought I might have a nibble and ended up scoffing the creme eggs out of both and half of each of the big eggs...

Currently I have them turned around so they still look like whole eggs from the front

Better nip out tomorrow and replace them quick. Of course after I've done that I'll have to eat what's left of today's eggs and hide the boxes

You had better send some over to me then please, I desperatly need an energy booster and something good for the brain at the moment - oh and especially chocolate that wont make me fat! lol

ET

White chocolate isn't chocolate. And it tastes disgusting.

Nope it isn't chocolate.

Unfortunately, I rather enjoy it though!

I LOVE cheap chocolate!

I especially like those huge blocks of cake covering. Rarely indulge though - they don't sell it in sweet shops, fortunately.

Sorry, I'll go.....

Whereas a high percentage of cocoa solids suggests a good quality chocolate, it isn't necessarily so, of course. Some of them aren't up to the hype.

We have the most wonderful real chocolate in the world!!! (well perhaps excepting Belgian chocolate).
Bayonne is famous for its chocolate and our local patisserie/chocolaterie runs a very close second. Dark, or milk, black or white it is delicious. I think even maggiemay might fall for the white chocolate here!

At the moment shop is full of chocolate chicks and bunnies and eggs and hens and ....you name it. No one is this town dares to give anyone chocolates unless they come from this shop! A pupil has just given me a chocolate cat for Easter - roll on Sunday!

Anyone tried the Bourneville Old Jamaica or the orange one. Yum (And I'm not usually a dark chocolate fan find too high solids too bitter and I like the milk in my choc - not the horrid really cheap stuff though Yuk!!)

I love the dark bitter stuff.
Bev

Rosfrog tells me that there is a wicked chocolate shop where he lives, in Nantes...Get thee behind me, Satan!!

I like really dark chocolate now and then but with a cup of coffee it would blow the top of my wee head off!!

I loathe cheap chocolate including Thorntons etc. Eughh nasty. Same for cheap white chocolate.

OH likes Galaxay and Dairy Milk so I occasionally have a square and it's okay but on the whole I'm not a fan of chocolate and actually don't eat it very often.

I don't like Lindt chocolate and this year I've been given a 'milk bunny', a 'dark bunny' and a huge Lindor egg with chocolates. All rather so I've no idea what to do with them!


Oh... edited to say: if any of you are ever noodling around Inverness in Scotland try to get to Strathpeffer. They have the most incredible Belgian chocolate shop/cafe there! They make REAL hot chocolate in the proper chocolate pot and it's so thick and delicious but so rich too They sell incredible hand-made chocolates and you can see into the workshop. They don't even waste space in the shop selling food - just chocolate! (although you can get a cup of tea with a stern look ) I do like their chocolates but at a £1 for one they're a rare treat!

You could always post them down to Sunny Croydon...

My daughter ordered a Hotel Chocolat egg for her fiance.
It arrived one day when she was at work - I emailed her to say 'it's arrived' , thinking she would like to know.

But I added a ps ...

"It was delicious".

*makes note...tea and chocolate...*

It depends not only on the variety of bean but also the quality of that bean. Too much rain for example will ruin the crop.

I love Hotel Chocolat stuff If only it wasn't so expensive...

The best chocolate I've had was 80% with chilli and cherry stuff inside. I bought it in Switzerland, but it was Lindt, so I was hoping I'd be able to buy it here, but it seems not.

I swear dark chocolate is the only thing that gets me through a lot of my assignments.

*Munches on a piece and returns to dissertation evilness*

I bought a huge tub of what looked like malteser type chocolates in Switzerland. When we got home I put one in my mouth, bit it and realised it was full of vodka

Hotel Chocolat do lovely, lovely chocolate...

Ooo, we got some easter eggs like that last year. The first one took me surprise and I ended up with brandy all down my front

The 'Tesco Extra' (as opposed to a 'Tesco Metro') just up the road from me sells it. But they still don't sell Willie's chocolate bars

I like chocolate.

Hotel Chocolat chocolate is delicious - I was a member of the tasting club for a good while and often bought extra items from HC inbetween the tasting boxes........ yummy (and fair trade - although not under the fairtrade label....)