Premium Chocolate Bars: A Cheat Sheet

I totally agree with BethanyA: Godiva is vastly overrated! And I'm a lifelong chocolate lover...LOL

You left out some of the best chocolate I have ever had. Perugina Dark Chocolate with Almonds.
fabulous!

Trader Joe's carries an 87% dark chocolate (black label w/ purple stripe) and Dagoba also has an 87%. Both are excellent!

Endangered Species - 72% dark mint...it's really worth it!!

Hey lets have some chocolates on the list that don't include artificial ingredients in them. I'm sorry, but if something is suppose to be fine quality, why not put the real thing in it!

I love Lindt 70% and 85% dark chocolate squares, the most common mistake people make when eating dark chocolate? Chewing, you don't chew a really good dark chocolate, let it melt on your palate, a good dark chocolate will have fruity notes to it that come out when you let it melt. I can't stand milk chocolate, it literally makes me sick to my stomach, and white chocolate (which is literally just coco butter, milk, and sugar, NO coco solids at all) is horrendous, I don't know how people eat it, blrgh!

Lindt's dark chocolate is good, as long as it's not the extra dark. But now I have become lactose intolerance, so I can no longer enjoy that chocolate.

Endangered Species - 72% dark mint...it's really worth it!!

ehh once i tried 100% and it was terrible! it left a really bad taste in my mouth that took a really long time to go away (water didnt help) i think I'm going to stick with milk chocolate :)

Alter Eco makes the best chocolate bars that I've ever had, they have one that's made of single origin Bolivian chocolate with pieces of cacao nibs and hazelnuts. Yum yum! Also, they're fair trade certified! I grew up loving Hersheys, however, cacao plants most certainly do not grow in Pennsylvania. Are you informed about where some of your favorite luxuries come from?

milk chocolate has 25% chocolate in it, not "a sprinkling".

The most amazing chocolate I ever tasted was YEARS ago - Davis chocolate company. I don't even know if they are still in business. Outside of that, Swiss, naturally, but GREEK chocolate was the surprise...it was mouth-watering. I don't get the Godiva tasting like soap. I think it's pretty good. I got spoiled on European chocolates. American chocolates are loaded with sugar and that's all you taste.

this is a retarded article.

Dark chocolate sucks. It's like eating an orange peel that melts.

Baking cacao is a bit much on it's own but dip a banana in the powdered stuff and you're in for a treat. Milk chocolate has it's place but I think that's only in my children's trick or treat bag. Personally I can't find any under 60% that doesn't make me want to spit it out, too sweet and too slimy.

Primium chocolate bars??? Hersheys??? Nestlee??? In my eyes those are not premium chocolate bars. www.therepublicofchocolate.net

Dove Dark!

"me and a co-worker"?

Other than the occasional Butterfinger (the regular and the wafered ones) and Reese's peanut butter cups, I don't really eat chocolate. I sort of like Ghiradelli and Dove chocolate, and the only real Hershey bar I truly liked, they don't make anymore. (You know, the limited edition white chocolate raspberry Hershey bar?)

I can't really eat a lot of chocolate, but when I do eat chocolate, I prefer milk chocolate or white chocolate. I dislike dark chocolate big time, so even the Cacao Reserve by Hershey's would push it for me. Chocolate too dark or too bitter could put me off of chocolate forever! I know dark chocolate can be good for you, but it's an acquired taste for me, since I go to chocolate for the sweet factor instead of the intense bitter factor.

I prefer homemade chocolate rather than that waxy candy bar stuff, no matter how light or dark it is. =D

made our own 100% chocolate from cacao beans. dried the beans, roast, mill and mold. great as chocolate drink with or without milk.