chrisurban.com » hershey’s http://chrisurban.com Tue, 31 Jan 2012 06:09:10 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Dagoba Lavender Blueberry 59% cacao http://chrisurban.com/2010/05/03/chocolate/dagoba-lavender-blueberry-59-cacao/ http://chrisurban.com/2010/05/03/chocolate/dagoba-lavender-blueberry-59-cacao/#comments Tue, 04 May 2010 01:00:17 +0000 Chris Urban http://chrisurban.com/?p=240 I tell you folks, if you’re in a store somewhere, and they sell chocolates, and they carry some or all of the line, you need to pick one and try it. I happened to be in the Hershey’s store in Times Square (yeah, I know, but that’s another story) and quietly hiding on an endcap somewhere were some of Hershey’s other prized possessions: and Scharffen Berger chocolate bars!
Yes, dear reader, Hershey’s owns Dagoba, and has since 2006? 2007? (Note: and Joseph Schmidt, too) Dagoba represents a nice organic trophy for their collection – I would imagine Hershey dare not tear it down and replace it with some slick over-marketed Special Dark/Dove amalgam of chocolate atrocity.

Anyway, on to the more interesting topic: this chocolate. We’ve had a number of Dagoba chocolates, some more interesting than others, and some, like the organic single origin line, have very distinctive flavors. This one, with its fruity floral focus, is just okay. I know, right? Weird hearing me say a chocolate is just ‘okay?’

Well, it is okay – it’s got a fairly good consistency and decent mouthfeel; the is not overbearing, and the bits of are not too big or chewy. It’s in the right league of cacao levels – we like it in the upper 50s to mid 60s. So, it’s okay enough to enjoy. But it doesn’t knock my socks off. And that, dear reader, is the whole point of our pathetic part-time journey: to find a chocolate that knocks my socks off.

]]> http://chrisurban.com/2010/05/03/chocolate/dagoba-lavender-blueberry-59-cacao/feed/ 0 Hershey’s Extra Dark Chocolate with pomegranate http://chrisurban.com/2009/08/07/chocolate/hersheys-extra-dark-chocolate-with-pomegranate/ http://chrisurban.com/2009/08/07/chocolate/hersheys-extra-dark-chocolate-with-pomegranate/#comments Fri, 07 Aug 2009 22:58:14 +0000 Chris Urban http://chrisurban.com/?p=170 “It’s delicious, and it has a little taste of [] punch in it. It tastes a little bit like grape juice.” - 5-year-old
“It tastes like Giselle.” – 3-year-old
Surprisingly, it doesn’t immediately taste like Hershey’s chocolate. We think there might be a little too much ; the sweet and tart fruit almost overwhelm the chocolate. Okay, so maybe that’s a good thing because it’s Hershey’s?
The chocolate is creamy and smooth, and a little too sweet for my taste. That does make this a good chocolate to introduce oneself to with. The bits of pomegranate are chewy, and stick to your teeth. Interestingly enough, my 5-year-old was pretty accurate with review: among ingredients listed are fruit juice concentrate (, , and elderberry juice concentrates). So, overall, the chocolate is overpowered with fruit juices and tastes, but has a good consistency.

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