How Food Snobbery Can Ruin the Simple Pleasures
I used to love Hershey’s Kisses: little bits of chocolaty goodness, I thought, wrapped up in foil. Of course, they’re way too expensive for me to get on a regular basis, but every year I look forward to February 15, because there’s always all sorts of red-wrapped candy at pennies on the dollar. I always get at least one bag of kisses and then I devour them.
This year, the devouring is going slowly. You see, over the past year, I’ve developed a taste for fine chocolate. I’ve on occasion dropped as much as 8 or 10 bucks on a single bar of high cocoa content (75% +) dark, though I’ve also scouted out lesser-priced brands that still offer a high-quality snack. I’ve gotten used to letting the small bits melt on my tongue; a process of slow-paced enjoyment.
I didn’t let this snobbery get in the way of my 2/15 candy-buying bonanza, though, and I still got my bag of kisses. Unfortunately, they now taste like wax to me.
March 9th, 2007 at 3:14 pm
Do even the dark chocolate kisses taste waxy to you? Because I find that just the milk chocolate ones do. Even though the dark chocolate kisses are not high quality dark chocolate, they still at least have the flavor I seek from dark chocolate.
Even though I’m not a milk chocolate fan, I AM a big fan of both the caramel and peanut butter Hershey’s kisses that are now on the market. The last bag of PB kisses that entered our house did not even last 1 day.
March 9th, 2007 at 7:11 pm
Or at least most of the readily available super markets brands do. It’s gotten a whole lot better in recent years with the availability of small brands in markets but any national brand is like that. Its odd too because if you taste Nestle in Europe and compare to the way it taste here it is like night and day. And I have no idea why. Perhaps American’s simply like it that way?
March 10th, 2007 at 11:15 pm
I agree, I can barely stand milk chocolate now, and HATE white chocolate. It’s got to be bittersweet/semisweet/dark chocolate for me to enjoy it. I made a batch of chocolate sables, and the combo of the cocoa powder and chocolate, made the dough so intense and almost coffee like it it was incredible.
I was wondering if anyone had tried the new nestle chocolatier? They advertise a pretty decent cocoa percentage, and we do not have many good brands of chocolate here. I am hoping that this will be a good medium of price vs taste. Is it any good?