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On Sun, 19 Oct 2003 07:50:07 -0000,
(Alex Rast) wrote:

>at Sat, 18 Oct 2003 07:10:47 GMT in <8jp1pv4jbr6s8ehnjlg80r6v1g6bsscndi@
>4ax.com>, (Davida Chazan) wrote :
>
>>Since I have a sister-in-law in Amsterdam, we often end up with having
>>a box of Droste chocolates from someone or another's visit there.
>>
>>While the dark and milk chocolates aren't anything special (and a bit
>>too sweet for my taste), I have to say that their white chocolate is
>>one of the very few that actually TASTES like chocolate!
>
>Have you ever tried El Rey? This is IMHO the best white chocolate, for
>exactly the same reasons you mention for Droste. Now, El Rey's, AFAIK, is
>the only one that uses non-deodourized cocoa butter, i.e. cocoa butter that
>hasn't had any flavour removed with a process similar to bleaching. It's
>hardly a surprise that most white chocolate ends up tasting like wax after
>going through a procedure like that.
>
>As for Droste, perhaps they have switched to non-deodourized?

Could be.

>But not
>TTBOMK.

Um... pardon?

>Do try El Rey if you haven't already and see if you still prefer
>Droste after that. I can tell you that the first time I tried El Rey's
>white chocolate my thought was instant: "Well, this is clearly the best
>white chocolate out there, without any question!"

Oh, great. Now I've got to figure out how I'm going to get my hands
on some El Rey's white chocolate.

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Davida Chazan (The Chocolate Lady)
<davida @ jdc . org . il>
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