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Best Posh Chocolate !

I have eaten this box full tonight, nearly 6oz and delicious. It's not milky but very creamy with a nut in every square. Sooooo smooth as well.
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trabuquera said:
It's abominably expensive (£3.50 for a not-slab-like, rather slender bar), but hits all my buttons (not too sweet, lots of nut-based fillings, REALLY tastes of proper cocoa solids). You literally can't eat more than 3 or 4 squares of this before you feel like you've had a full chocolate pudding like a mousse or cake - but that is just fine by me:
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I have bought a bar of this today but I haven't tried it yet because I also bought Pip & Nut dark chocolate peanut minis, they are imo lush! And due to trying to not eat too much dark chocolate/sugar in teh evenings I'm leaving the Hu bar til tomorrow. I bought the Cashew butter one :) H&B also have raspberry & liquorice popcorn, which got munched quite quickly!
 
hash tag said:
Hotel Chocolat has now sold out to an American company .
BBC News - Hotel Chocolat founders share £288m from Mars sale
www.bbc.co.uk

Hotel Chocolat founders share £288m from Mars sale

Angus Thirlwell and Peter Harris will each net £144m after selling firm to the confectionery giant.
www.bbc.co.uk
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Epona said:
Well Hotel Chocolat have just been bought out by Mars.
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Don't think I ever tried hotel Chocolat. Used to like Montezuma's but see they have had issues
www.confectionerynews.com

Founders take back control of struggling chocolate brand Montezuma’s

After filing for administration last month, Montezuma’s Chocolates has been rescued by Paramount Retail Group, which announced it has appointed the brand’s founders Helen and Simon Pattinson to the helm of the company.
www.confectionerynews.com www.confectionerynews.com
 
hash tag said:
Don't think I ever tried hotel Chocolat. Used to like Montezuma's but see they have had issues
www.confectionerynews.com

Founders take back control of struggling chocolate brand Montezuma’s

After filing for administration last month, Montezuma’s Chocolates has been rescued by Paramount Retail Group, which announced it has appointed the brand’s founders Helen and Simon Pattinson to the helm of the company.
www.confectionerynews.com www.confectionerynews.com
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I daresay there are people who say hotel chocolat weren't posh because they were only semi eyewateringly expensive and there are posher hand-woven artisan chocolates that you can mortgage your house to buy, but they were posh to me.
 
I get them for the family every year, it’s easier than keeping track of anything else and I can post and forget
 
M&S Liqueurs are great. So far nobody has done it better generally than Linder.
Lily O’Briens are not great for me. I would rather save the money and get a Terrys Orange.
Hotel Chocolate are way overpriced but used to be good for free samples.
I am confident in saying you can’t get any decent chocolate in America,
 
I love milk chocolate with whole nuts but rather than have it in a bar, what about nice little squares. The milk chocolate is quite soft and not at all bitter. Not the poshest of the posh. I've just eaten a box full
www.lindt.co.uk

Lindt NUXOR Milk Chocolate 165g

Delight in a unique taste and texture experience with our velvety melt-in-your-mouth Swiss milk chocolate enrobing crunchy whole roasted hazelnuts. Buy Online.
www.lindt.co.uk www.lindt.co.uk
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For me, the ethics and origin of the chocolate as well as quality and taste. Saw this earlier and had to try it
upupchocolate.com

The Birth of UP-UP

We want to change the entire chocolate industry for the better, by prioritizing a human first chocolate industry. Human first means putting people before profit. It means opportunity before exploitation and it means putting the welfare of humans above the metrics of corporations.
upupchocolate.com

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Mrs tag said 8/10.
I have two other lots of pick and mix and some loose chocolate from there. My milk squares are a good 8 as well. The loose will be nearer 10.
 
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Ooh I've just snagged some of those on Too Good To Go, not tried them yet. Läderach were amazing.

I wouldn't be buying any of these ridiculously expensive chocolates at full price or even half price and the ethics are not good but I happily pay 1/3 of retail to eat fancy Advent calendars in gloomy February, Valentine's chocs in March and Easter Eggs in July.
 
mango5 said:
Ooh I've just snagged some of those on Too Good To Go, not tried them yet. Läderach were amazing.

I wouldn't be buying any of these ridiculously expensive chocolates at full price or even half price and the ethics are not good but I happily pay 1/3 of retail to eat fancy Advent calendars in gloomy February, Valentine's chocs in March and Easter Eggs in July.
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The only chocs worth buying are for yourself and not others.
with Venchi, the ethics seem OK.
 
I was given a posh box of Lindt chocolates by a neighbour at Xmas and they were awful. Bland nonsense - a real curate’s egg despite the adverts with the Toque wearing “Chocolatiers” There’s much better high cocoa chocolate to be had at Aldi and Lidl IMHO.
 
seeformiles said:
I was given a posh box of Lindt chocolates by a neighbour at Xmas and they were awful. Bland nonsense - a real curate’s egg despite the adverts with the Toque wearing “Chocolatiers” There’s much better high cocoa chocolate to be had at Aldi and Lidl IMHO.
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Concur absolutely.
 
One of my guests always brought Hotel du Chocolate presents when he visited and I thought they were no big deal, no better than Thorntons just a new look and shops at railway stations.

I used to like Neuhaus which were a price and a half from Selfridges. Now I'm going to try Venchi bars, extra dark cremino, and orange filled, and Bacio di Dama from here, so thanks for the tip, hash tag

 
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