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The flavor and the texture are so much better than those bitter dark chocolate bars.

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[–] [email protected] 182 points 1 year ago (9 children)

Are saltine crackers your favorite potato chips?

[–] [email protected] 131 points 1 year ago (3 children)

White chocolate shouldn't even be called chocolate.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago

I so agree. Its nice with strawberries. sorta like the way powdered sugar is.

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[–] [email protected] 91 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Going off of the comments already, I would say that this is a truly unpopular opinion. Well done, OP!

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[–] [email protected] 76 points 1 year ago (5 children)

White chocolate literally just tastes like sugar and fat. And "sour"??? What dark chocolate are you eating? This one actually pissed me off fr. Truly unpopular opinion.

[–] [email protected] 46 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

My guess is they’re American and damaged by Hershey's puke

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[–] [email protected] 66 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

As a Belgian I consider myself a bit of an ambassador on chocolate and after discussing this with all my fellow countrymen we came to the unanimous conclusion that you are wrong. Please apologize and remove this post.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I asked the Netherlanders what they thought of your comment, and I couldn't understand a fucking word they said, but they seemed angry.

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[–] [email protected] 64 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Maybe because it's not chocolate and we should stop calling it this.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

Depends! If you consider chocolate to be food derived from the cocoa bean, then white chocolate is chocolate because it's made of cocoa butter without the solids!

The powdery stuff you call cocoa is what's left over once you get rid of the cocoa butter. So if you feel that cocoa solids are required for something to be classified as chocolate... Then no, it's not chocolate.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

I guess it's the same as asking if vegetable oil is a vegetable.

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[–] [email protected] 49 points 1 year ago

TIL, some people think solidifed mix of powdered milk & sugar is chocolate.

Thank you for satisfying yourself with that and leaving chocolate for the rest of us.

[–] [email protected] 43 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Upvote because I whole heartedly disagree with you.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

Yes. This is what unpopular opinion should be about.

[–] [email protected] 41 points 1 year ago (8 children)

It really isn't. The key flavor factor of Chocolate is it's bitterness.

White Chocolate totally sacrifices this flavor profile. If you prefer white chocolate you like sugar, not chocolate.

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[–] [email protected] 39 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

You have the palate of a child

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[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 year ago

Comparing white chocolate to dark chocolate makes as much sense as comparing macarons to macaroni :P

Other than that, enjoy white chocolate moderately, preferably with friends, and enjoy your weekend, kind human being :)

[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 year ago

You enjoy sweetened cocoa butter rather than the fermented product of the cocoa bean, one is chocolate and the other is not. You enjoy the one that is not chocolate, but makes a great moisturizer if you don't add sugar.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago

Im glad you like your sugary milky butter. Have the day you deserve.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago

Are you a serial killer or just an absolute freak in other ways? White chocolate tastes like someone mixed jizz and chalk dust into some bland milk chocolate.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago

So the only problem I have with white chocolate is that is seems soooo much sweeter. Like a sickly sweet. Its not bad just not my go to sweet

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

no officer, he was already dead when I found him

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago

So you like pure fat mixed with sugar. That's ok with me.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Wait, is dark chocolate actually sour to you? Dark chocolate is definitely not sour for me. Bitter maybe, but absolutely not sour.

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[–] southsamurai 18 points 1 year ago

Damn, I think this may be the first truly angry upvote I've ever given. How someone can be so wrong, but post about it in the one place where the sheer insanity of saying it requires me to applaud their saying it, it don't understand.

Legit though, I get it. Dark chocolate is an odd pleasure. Sour isn't the right word, it's bitterness, though. And it's an earthy bitterness rather than something that is only bitter. But I can see how the dominance of the bitterness is going to overwhelm the palate until and unless you've taken the time to break away from sweet pleasures as the only pleasures. And that takes both time and effort, we aren't geared to detect bitterness as good by default.

I love me some white chocolate though! The cheap stuff is cloying and waxy, but when it's done well, you get this creamy texture along with the buttery flavor carried on sweetness.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (13 children)

I also think white is better than dark chocolate, but what kind of dark chocolate you're eating that's sour? Dark chocolate is supposed to be bitter.

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (9 children)

It's not even real chocolate. Dark chocolate for the win. At least 70% or bust.

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Wait, dark chocolate is sour? Very high concentration (80%+) dark chocolate is close to powdery and has some fruity notes, but it's usually slightly bitter rather than sour to me. It's not my favourite but I can't think of it as being sour.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Why would you pretend anyway? Such a nonsensical thing to do, I can't even comprehend why anybody would do such a thing in this instance.

[–] wheeldawg 11 points 1 year ago

They probably weren't actually pretending. Most likely just using the meme phrase for the title.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

White chocolate is just sugary butter, you are a simpleton. Good day sir or madam.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Proper dark chocolate isn't even good. Milk chocolate however is far better than white chocolate. White is just too... cloying?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Proper dark chocolate doesn't have to be 100% cocoa solids. I agree that is too bitter, and I like a very dark chocolate.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

White chocolate is just a shell of the chocolate it wants to be

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (6 children)

I guess you're gonna be tired aaaaand wrong.

I'm sure we'll see eye to eye on other matters, but not this.

Good day to you!

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[–] ruckblack 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Completely disagree, though I don't like dark chocolate all that much either. Upvoted.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

If you prefer white chocolate to other kinds you just don't like chocolate that much, which is fine, but don't lie to us about it

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

Those be fightin words.

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