I'm Indecisive...

[gnomi]

...so I poll:

[Poll #1348360]

Comments

[anahcrow.livejournal.com]

Most white chocolate is lousy, by my standards, but I love white chocolate. I have had some really good stuff at a chocolate shop, and I think it's best as fresh as possible, but the stuff they sell in the store is often terrible, giving white chocolate a bad name. :p I think that the fats aren't as stable as in chocolate, or they're cheap, and it has a bad tendency to pick up other flavors at the slightest provocation.

[mamadeb.livejournal.com]

White "chocolate" is, if you're lucky, cocoa butter, milk and sugar. Otherwise, it's cocoa butter, vegetable shortening, milk and sugar.

[anahcrow.livejournal.com]

*nods* It's an interesting substance. Because it's so simple, any cheap shortcuts come through in the flavor.

[jonbaker.livejournal.com]

Oh boy yes. And even worse in the sucre-free varieties. I used to get a kosher SF white chocolate bar sometimes, but last year after pesach, the company changed recipes, and it became soap-like. Bleah. They may have changed their supplier, because the mold changed - it was a different pattern of squares than it had been.

[mamadeb.livejournal.com]

I picked narf for the last one, not only because narf is *always* a right answer, but because none of the others worked.

I like desserts (well, normally - not at the moment - if you're reading my cooking school blog, you'll see why soon) but I've never had any problems saying "no" to them - and I'm very happy without. Give me salty/savory any time.

[erastes.livejournal.com]

It's the best of the chocolates. White choc chip cookies? TO DIE FOR.

[42itous.livejournal.com]

Dessert should always include fruit. Fruit dipped in chocolate is, admittedly, awesome.

[xiphias.livejournal.com]

White chocolate is fine stuff, but it is not chocolate. It has a different temperature response cycle, different texture, and a different taste.

Like tofu, it is a fine thing taken on its own terms, but fails when people attempt to use it to be a replacement for something else which it is not.

Neither tofu nor TVP is meat. And white chocolate is not chocolate. But white chocolate, tofu, and TVP can all be delicious when treated as THEMSELVES, instead of as "not-the-other-thing."

[ghilledhu.livejournal.com]

That's pretty much what I was going to say.

That and one of my favorite cookie recipes is Reverse Chocolate Chip - white chips in chocolate cookies. Om nom nom....

[gnomi.livejournal.com]

Reverse Chocolate Chip - white chips in chocolate cookies

That's precisely the dessert I'm making for tomorrow night.

[ghilledhu.livejournal.com]

*cheers*

[moonpuppy61.livejournal.com]

Here here! Well said and I agree with it. Thank you for your eloquence.

[530nm330hz.livejournal.com]

WGBH was offering an assortment of "white, milk, and dark chocolates" as a Valentine's Day fundraising drive gift --- and all I could think was "any given person probably only really wants one of those."

[cellio]

I like white and milk but not dark. Well, it's fine if you do stuff to it, like wrap it around fruit or infuse it with ginger, but plain, it doesn't do anything for me.

[aunt-becca.livejournal.com]

once again, if you are unsure, I will happily taste whatever it is you are making.....

[madfilkentist]

American "white chocolate" most often can't even legally be called that on the label. I thought white chocolate was worthless stuff till I had European white chocolate, with a good amount of cacao butter in it. You hardly ever get decent white chocolate in the US.

[tiptoe39.livejournal.com]

WHITE CHOCOLATE IS GOD.

My favorite food is "Anything with sugar in it." :D

[kerryp.livejournal.com]

I like white chocolate chips in chocolate cookies or as part of those Hershey's Hugs that came out a while back (do they still sell them?). But I am not really a chocolate person, in general. For me, nothing beats simple vanilla ice cream, or better yet, warm bread pudding topped with vanilla ice cream. As one anonymous Scotsman once said:

"It's a good thing that we don't all have the same tastes; otherwise, think what an oatmeal shortage there would be!"

[fizzixrat.livejournal.com]

White chocolate is evil. I really find the taste *and* the texture repulsive.

And milk chocolate is a bit more problematic these days, because of all the, well, milk. (Dairy is also evil, at least according to my body's response.)

Dark chocolate is alright, but doesn't appeal as much somehow.

Semi-sweet works best for me... I'll take Nestle chocolate chips straight out of the bag over most any other chocolate form.

[deerdancer22.livejournal.com]

me too!