marian wrote:

> My favorite is the valrhona
> #120 - Cafe Noir (3kg/6.6 lbs.) - New! @ $63.67
>
> A dark chocolate blended with arabica coffee.

That sounds good. Valrhona is my favorite dark chocolate.
Today, I picked up some Newman's Own and Scharffen
Berger coffee-flavored dark chocolate bars. The cocoa
solids content of the Newman's wasn't stated, but it must
have been quite low. The bar was way too sweet for me.
After one bite, I threw it away.

The Scharffen Berger was almost as bad. At first,
I thought it had granulated sugar in it. It had some
sort of grit. It turned out to be coffee grounds!
They just put ground coffee in their chocolate.
Whoever formulated this bar was an idiot.

I haven't mail-ordered any chocolate before, but
I guess that's the only way I'll get to try Valrhona's
coffee-flavored chocolate. I don't think I care
to order 3 kilograms of it, though.