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Andy[_15_] · **(2009-03-24) NS-RFC: Taxing chocolate?**

ChattyCathy said...

> wrote:
>>
>> When I lived in France I could get 72%, 80%, 90% and 95% chocolate
>> bars in the grocery store. You don't need to eat very much of
>> a 95% bar to satisfy a chocolate craving.
>
> Quite so. I do like some of the Swiss Lindt dark chocolate range we can
> buy here. We like the 80% and upwards stuff. And yes, one square of
> that after dinner is more than satisfying, IMHO.

Geez... 95%??? Isn't that verging on baking chocolate?

I've never found more than 85% which I really like.

As a kid I bit off a piece of unsweetened baking chocolate thinking I was in
for a treat. I couldn't stop spitting for the longest time.