OMG you would NOT BELIEVE what passes for chocolate in these parts. I was really hungry tonight and hadn’t been shopping so I went hunting around the kitchen cupboards. I found a Hershey bar (came from a hotel welcome pack from way back – I wouldn’t have bought the noxious substance). Anyway it says chocolate on the front but that’s a LIE! The stuff is revolting. A brief perusal of the ingredients explains why – there’s no cocoa in there! It probably harks back to the war when they had to make chocolate out of melted down tanks.
Now I know that I’m a bit of a chocolate snob (yes I put my hand up to cooking with no less than 70% cocoa chocs) but this completely takes the biscuit. At best they only use cocoa butter. That’s what I use as moisturiser! although now I come to think of it I think the moisturiser would taste better.
Apparently there’s a chocolate factory you can visit in Hershey Pennsylvania. That’s one place you can be sure I won’t be going. Urgh.