There is something wrong with the "small" margarita
(the menu listed "small" and "large") ringing up
on the bill as "kid's margarita". (Mad Mex,
Sunday night.)
>> white chocolate is just a totally other animal entirely
Yep, I agree with you. Why is it called "chocolate" anyway? The taste is entirely different, IMO.
>> only one alcoholic thing that neither smells nor tastes to my system like alcohol
May I suggest Bartenura's Moscati di Asti? It's a very low-alcohol wine (4%, I think) and I jokingly call it "apple juice" because, well, it tastes more like juice than wine.
>> white chocolate is just a totally other animal entirely Yep, I agree with you. Why is it called "chocolate" anyway? The taste is entirely different, IMO.
True, but it's produced from cacao, so it's sort of truth in advertising. (It's just that white chocolate is made from the boring bits of the cacao without the interesting stuff...)
As I recall, there are several different parts (or derivatives?) from the cacao plant that go into chocolate. Dark chocolate has more of the "makes stuff bitter" part, white lacks the "makes stuff brown" part but has everything else, milk, well, adds milk, and so on. (There are different types within species, too -- dark chocolate candy has different proportions from dark baking chocolate.)
I don't like bitterness, so I like white and milk chocolates and don't care for dark chocolate when it's "naked". When it's wrapped around an interesting filling (creams, cherries, nuts, etc), I'll eat it -- the filling offsets the dark chocolate.
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Re: bleah
Date: 2004-09-21 10:05 am (UTC)Yep, I agree with you. Why is it called "chocolate" anyway? The taste is entirely different, IMO.
>> only one alcoholic thing that neither smells nor tastes to my system like alcohol
May I suggest Bartenura's Moscati di Asti? It's a very low-alcohol wine (4%, I think) and I jokingly call it "apple juice" because, well, it tastes more like juice than wine.
Re: bleah
Date: 2004-09-21 10:40 am (UTC)Yep, I agree with you. Why is it called "chocolate" anyway? The taste is entirely different, IMO.
True, but it's produced from cacao, so it's sort of truth in advertising. (It's just that white chocolate is made from the boring bits of the cacao without the interesting stuff...)
Re: bleah
Date: 2004-09-21 11:44 am (UTC)I don't like bitterness, so I like white and milk chocolates and don't care for dark chocolate when it's "naked". When it's wrapped around an interesting filling (creams, cherries, nuts, etc), I'll eat it -- the filling offsets the dark chocolate.