This topic probably belongs in Controversial Issues , but who do you think makes the best chocolate?

Any particular reason for your preference?

Are you a dark or milk fan?

Oh Cadbury by far! And I don't care if it is Dark or milk chocolate just as long as it gives me that yummy heavenly feeling I need to get through a bad day. PF

She is well trained,(eh?)
I do so agree. The centres of such makes as Godiva and the Belgian makes are gorgeous, but when it comes to the actual chocolate, give me good old Cadbury's. Milk or plain or white, I am not at all fussed.

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Oh Cadbury by far!

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100% true!

Toblerone - any day any time

Maybe Twix also

I'd vote for Cadburys too EXCEPT they make those fake eggs that have the white creme center with a gross hunk of yellow gunk in the middle made to replicate the yolk. I'm gagging as I type this, just thinking of that hunka stuff slowly running out as the chocolate egg is broken. AARGH!

86 the egg and yellow gunk and Cadburys has my vote.

Cadbury 1 - Hershey Bars 0

There might have been arguments about Cadbury's not containing enough CoCoa butter to be called chocolate but I don't care. Whatever it is made up of I like it best.

Casting back in my memory to when I was allowed to eat chocolate - most definitely Cadbury's Milk. I loved all chocolate but that is really the very best.

I love the Cadbury cream eggs! And now they have caramel and chocolate ones...

Anyway, the best chocolate has got to be the dark chocolate from my local place back home, the Chocolate House. And I think my mom sent me some for Easter...

Edit to add: I forgot to ask, I'm taking a poll to see if this is just a local treat we have... Have any of you ever had (or heard of) sponge candy?

Absolutely has got to be Toblerone, closely followed by the kids Kinder egg choccy's and Cadbury's of course.

*Santana drools* <- serious choccy fan

Ace and Santana have just become my favourite members (apart from my supplier!)! Toblerone, and specifically WHITE toblerone - it is truely a gift from the gods.

I always loved Reese, the peanut-butter-chocolate bar... and I always loved any kind of white chocolate.

My favorite used to be from a local maker of fine chocolate,till I saw a program on him,during which he was filmed leaning over and stirring the chocolate in a vat sweating like a pig and dripping into the vat.Cadbury tastes fine to me now.Whoever makes the great chocolate treat "Flake" has my vote.

Yes, Cadbury's make Flakes. That is the most wonderful thing of all: a Hockings vanilla cone (home made ice cream from Devon with real clotted cream in) , an extra serving of clotted cream on top and then a Cadbury's Flake pushed in . Oh Yum!!!!

It's not always the "big names" that produce the best chocolate. When I hear people refer to Belgian chocolates, names such as Godiva and Leonidas often pop up and yet everybody here knows that the finest quality is often made by smaller enterprises. Galler, Wittamer, Côte d'Or, Sweertveghers, Callebaut, Daskalides may not spend as much on advertising as some others, but among chocolate-lovers they have a very high reputation. Myself I buy my "chocolate eggs"
at a local producer's where they are artisanally made.
When I am in France I really have a problem to find any type of chocolate that tastes like the chocolate I am used to .
Swiss chocolate such as Toblerone is o.k. to me mainly because of the nuts and honey.
Cadbury I somehow associate with raisins.Don't dislike it, but it does not seem to produce the pure "black chocolate" that is mostly considered to be the "real" chocolate.("Noir de noir").
"Milk chocolate" is an adulteration. "White" chocolate does not even contain any cocoa.
Still have to try out my first Hershey.
As chocolate is an addictive produce, I bet most people like best what they have got addicted to and don't really compare tastes any more.
Every (wo)man to his/her own poison, huh?

Any chocolate is best to me. I love Hersheys & Reeses &
M&M's and especially 5th Avenue bars MMMMmmmmm.

Rogue, you took the words right out of my mouth. To paraphrase Mae West (I think), "I never met a chocolate I didn't like".

Actually, Denna Troi says that in an episode of "Star Trek: The Next Generation."

LadyM, she(?) must have stole it too

I was close with my source; can you see the resemblance between La West and Will Rogers?

Cadbury 2 - Hershey still 0

What is that very very posh , expensive dark chocolate that you get in Fortnums and Harrods? I forget the name.
Hershey's always tastes a bit like cooking chocolate to me.
I realise that milk chocolate is not pure , but oh Cadbury's milk choc is the best to me.

All chocolate is the best chocolate! Well almost all...LOL! German chocolate has my vote, Feodora if you can get it. I've spent many an evening with a Butterfinger or Baby Ruth though...and enjoyed every crunchy munch of it! Hooray for chocolate!

Watched a great show about Cadbury chocolate on A&E's "Biography" last night. What an amazing family! Strict Quakers, they believed in being responsible for the welfare of their employees, and built homes for them to live in, offered advanced education (even to women...a controversial idea in the late 19th century), swimming pools, sports, etc. They mentioned that the 'secret' formula for Cadbury chocolate is kept in a vault, and no more then 6 people know what it is. World War I almost did them in. As Quakers, and therefore pacifists, they refused to assist the war effort by converting their factory to munitions manufacturing. But they quickly recovered by manufacturing chocolate that became a part of the soldiers' mess kit. And they were the first in the world to develop the means to produce milk chocolate by investing in a Dutch machine to remove cocoa butter and add milk solids to the recipe.

They also said that the business has suffered from a dearth of qualifid management (historically top management had to be named Cadbury whether suited to the task or not), and they've diversified to include Schweppe's products.

It made me hungry for a Cadbury bar.....even the gross Cadbury egg with the yellow gunk looked good.

I saw the same show, valois. It seemed eerily appropriate since I had just logged off my computer after viewing the postings here about the best chocolate. Oooeeeeoooo.