> I guess most of the people who read this group are interested in the
> best chocolate.

But is not the best chocolate the one, that my/your mouth says is the best?
I have never been one of those people who bow to labels or makers, I let my
mouth decide. And since this is the case, I need to first know what the
basic chocolates are like in other countries and only after that can I truly
appreciate the better ones. If they truly are the better ones, that is.

> Hershey's milk chocolate instead of, say, Guittard or Scharffenberger
> dark chocolate.

Because this is my hobby and I am interested in that. Is that not a good
enough reason? Actually I already have a contact in the United States, so
what I would need now is some contacts in other countries than the US.

> Over here, the masses simply aren't trustworthy.

I don't get this sentence. Do you mean that the chocolate that the masses
like most, is not to your liking? But isn't democracy all about the vote of
the majority? I don't mean to be political in any way, but I just don't
understand what you mean.

> If you want good chocolate, then perhaps you should just start
> sampling from some European equivalent of chocosphere.com. It would
> probably be cheaper and more diverse as well.

You might be right here, but this goes against my original idea, because
only the "better" chocolates are available via Internet.

Well, this was just an idea I had. My world will not collapse even if this
didn't work out :-)

Thanks for your comments.

Br,
Jarkko