Chocolate

Diabolical · 2026-03-19T13:14:05+00:00

I’ve been talking about starting a chocolate thread for the past few years. After scattered posts across the lounge, you know what? Fine. Here. Chocolate thread. Dessert. Snack. Delicacy. Currency. Destructive Commodity. A place to discuss it. Personally, I’m primarily a dark chocolate enjoyer. And I take this FAR more seriously than anyone should. I eat half a bar of chocolate over 10-to-30 minutes, I take notes, and I don’t eat the rest of the bar for two or three days at the earliest…. See? Bit crazy, I know. But that’s me. I got my reasons and my methods and my chocolate enjoyment origin stories. As do most. Chocolate is incredibly subjective. You like what you like, and the chocolate you enjoy can be influenced on a daily basis by things as varied as what you ate recently to what the rainy season was like the year the year the cacao was harvested and what (if any) other cacao it was mixed with and what else is in the chocolate! One person’s ‘too bitter’ is the next person’s ‘nectar of the gods’. You got chocolate opinions? Bring’em! You want to shame the enjoyers because the industry is outrageously exploitative? We can talk about that if you want. Want to talk chocolate science? Let’s do that! You find a fun brand or specific kind of chocolate? Share! Anyway, first up for me? The most recent bar I’ve enjoyed: Amadei Toscana’s Nove, a 75% Cacao bar that is a blend of nine different plantations from across three countries and featuring three different bean varieties. It was a tasting journey that started with, “hmm, interesting but a bit boring,” and ended with, “Holy cow that’s fantastic!”