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cmeisenzahl · Dec 7, 2005, 08:06 AM

Kind of interesting, but not surprising.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...600191_pf.html

ReggieX · Dec 7, 2005, 08:45 AM

It was only a matter of time. Good to know some people still have a measure of perspective:

"Chocolate's trying to make a move from being a commodity . . . to something a little more like wine," said John Coleman, a buyer for grocer Balducci's. "That way, it's quality-driven."

But he cautioned not to overthink it. After all, chocolate is still first and foremost a comfort food.

"You don't want it to get too mystified by all the terms and everything," Coleman said. "You taste it. Do you like it? Good."

tooki · Dec 7, 2005, 10:09 AM

Well, as someone who grew up in Switzerland, where fine chocolate is omnipresent, I have always hoped that the U.S. would grow up and move past that sweetened wax that Hershey's passes off as chocolate.

I mean, after being in Switzerland, it makes Godiva seem like crap (it's waxy, too). Thank goodness you can get Lindt & Sprüngli here, and that Trader Joe's carries Scharffen Berger. (Though till this article, I didn't know that the latter has been bought out by Hershey's.

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tooki