White chocolate is better than dark chocolate and i'm tired of pretending it's not
The flavor and the texture are so much better than those bitter dark chocolate bars.
Are saltine crackers your favorite potato chips?
I'd honestly go a different direction with the burn like white chocolate is to chocolate what sweet potato chips are to potato chips.
If we were to figure out where saltine crackers relate to potato chips in reference to chocolate or general sweets I'd say if potato chips are milk chocolate Hershey's then saltine crackers are toffee.
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Yeah I know white chocolate isn't technically chocolate but it scratches the same itch for me.
White chocolate shouldn't even be called chocolate.
I so agree. Its nice with strawberries. sorta like the way powdered sugar is.
yeah it is like people calling twizzlers Red , when there is 0 liquorice in it.
Going off of the comments already, I would say that this is a truly unpopular opinion. Well done, OP!
I can't tell the pretentious assholes apart from the people jokily pretending to be pretentious assholes. Great stuff.
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.
My guess is they’re American and damaged by Hershey's puke
As an American pushing 40, I will tell you, in my whole life, I have rarely ever seen someone just eating a Hershey bar. And I mean very rarely, like twice in my life. They are usually used in some other way like S'mores.
When someone wants just chocolate they grab something better like Ghirardelli or something.
Maybe they meant bitter.
I did a chocolate tour once. They explained that beans from certain places do have a more sour taste and some bars have it. Its been a while so I don't even remember which beans it was but it is a real thing.
Imagine not liking sugar and fat.
Not on its own!
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.
I asked the Netherlanders what they thought of your comment, and I couldn't understand a fucking word they said, but they seemed angry.
Are you sure they weren't American? We're always getting angry at things we don't understand.
As a Swiss I feel like I can easily out-ambassador you and I will disagree. White chocolate is awesome and OP should keep loving it.
Maybe because it's not chocolate and we should stop calling it this.
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.
It scratches the same itch for me ¯(ツ)/¯
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.
Upvote because I whole heartedly disagree with you.
Yes. This is what unpopular opinion should be about.
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.
This. I despise how sweet white chocolate tastes. I like that rich bitterness to dark chocolate.
But I was the weird kid who grew up liking dark chocolate over milk chocolate.
Same, I used to eat it in very small amounts.
"You want some chocolate with that sugar?"
Or like both but prefer sugar (and fat carefully tempered to a delecate snap). But seriously if you don't like sugar I don't understand why you would be messing with chocolate anyway.
Incidentally try caramelising white chocolate. fucking great. Which I think supports the white choc ~= sugar hypothesis.
You have the palate of a child
True. In fact all chocolate is for children. Real adults appreciate the complex flavors and harsh bitterness of dirt which reminds them of their bitter and complex adult selves.
Enjoy your dino chicken nuggets
He probably puts ketchup on hotdogs.
I have to agree with him white chocolate is superior.
I just don't like chocolate.
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.
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 :)
Im glad you like your sugary milky butter. Have the day you deserve.
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.
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
no officer, he was already dead when I found him
His taste buds certainly were.
Wait, is dark chocolate actually sour to you? Dark chocolate is definitely not sour for me. Bitter maybe, but absolutely not sour.
if they are American then dark chocolate can very well taste sour, look into what Hershey did, literally use soured milk to make chocolate...
In the US, we’ve gotten some really good chocolate over the last couple of decades and I’ve mostly avoided Hersheys over that time. We especially have some excellent dark chocolates. Your “bad chocolate” stereotype was all too true and may still be on average, but things are changing.
I’ve never tasted good white chocolate though
I am not a native english speaker and i always forget about the word "bitter", i will correct the post, thanks.
So you like pure fat mixed with sugar. That's ok with me.
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.
I'm not from the US
In think that's the point. Most people on here soon to be American and so are basing their opinion on American chocolate (which is disgusting awful regardless of type)
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.
Right? The bitterness is the point. It makes my life so much sweeter in comparison.
lots of people mix up the words bitter and sour
There are some chocolates that are definitely sour, sometimes that's a desired flavor when making chocolate. For example, the last batch of single origin Peru chocolate was noticable more sour than the Bolivian and Ecuadorian ones I made. I'd actually intentionally selected my beans knowing this.
It's not even real chocolate. Dark chocolate for the win. At least 70% or bust.
I have to stop about 70%. Every 80%+ tastes like plastic to me, it's a weird sensation for me. Have always loved 70% dark chocolate though, as well as milk.
White? It's mostly a toleration rather than an enjoyment. I like it in a few specific things like a white mocha or a few varieties of cookies. But never by itself.
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.
American chocolates (like Hershey's) tend to taste more sour because they have more sugar and less cacao. The milk also tends to have a more butyric acid taste for some reason. Perhaps the difference is how the milk is treated, but those are trade secrets.
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.
They probably weren't actually pretending. Most likely just using the meme phrase for the title.
White chocolate is just sugary butter, you are a simpleton. Good day sir or madam.
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!
White chocolate is the only chocolate I'll eat. Milk chocolate, dark chocolate, any other kind of chocolate; I can't comprehend why people like it so much. I'm more of a strawberry/vanilla guy. At least they don't taste like stale coffee mixed with sugar to cover the taste.
White chocolate is just a shell of the chocolate it wants to be
White chocolate is what is left over after the good part is removed.
Proper dark chocolate isn't even good. Milk chocolate however is far better than white chocolate. White is just too... cloying?
Proper dark chocolate doesn't have to be 100% cocoa solids. I agree that is too bitter, and I like a very dark chocolate.
There is a literal sweet spot for me, totally dependent on my taste and mood of the day where dark chocolate is just dark enough that fruity noted of the chocolate shine through the bitterness. Which is not to say that I don't also love milk chocolate, sour milk chocolate aka Hershey's, and white chocolate.
I love 70% dark chocolate, often with mint, caramel or sea salt. Those are the best, better than milk and white.
Some of that stuff is only good to use in baking or otherwise as an ingredient.
There are some dark chocolates that are meant for dégustation as well but usually a bit lower on the cacao % and with complex flavour profiles kind of like wine.
Completely disagree, though I don't like dark chocolate all that much either. Upvoted.
Dark chocolate is the only kind I really like anymore.
Milk chocolate is where it's at for me.
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
Those be fightin words.
Shut it. Debating taste is pointless.
What! I mean, yes, it is pretty unproductive. But occasionally, incredibly rarely, debating taste leads to a phenomenal new innovation, some new understanding. Just not among non-chefs I guess
I follow your flavor claim, but lose me on the texture bit. They feel veeery similar tbh.
But i cannot STAND white chocolate. Its way too sweet for me, and it overall tastes too much like milk. So much so i usually get 70% cacao content, which would probably be too bitter for your tastes.
I only eat Lindt 70% chocolate. It's absolutely perfect and I cant stand anything higher or lower in cacao percentage. And the Lindt brand is extremely smooth. So good. And it's relatively healthy with more fat and protein than carbs, so it satisfies me after about two squares.
I discovered a 65% cacao milk chocolate. You get the strong chocolate flavor but also the milk to balance the bitterness.
I usually prefer dark chocolate but this one is amazing.
I like and eat both. I don't even care if people don't consider white chocolate "not true chocolate", it's still great. Milk chocolate, too.
Still, if I had to choose, I'd probably go with the darkest, least sweet chocolate.
Yeah, I'm never going to not eat sweets if they're offered. But if if I'm choosing my own treat, it's going to be the bar of 70%+ dark.
Might as well just say you like sugar. I've never had white chocolate that isn't caked full of sugar, but dark chocolate is 👌
Eww
It's like people have different tastes. If you like it, that's all that matters.
That's racist.
I like this comment regardeless of your intentions being sincere or not.
I like dark chocolate because (excuse my English) had a sour-sweet tastes. especially the ones who had 50% or more in cacao
That's more of a bitter flavor. Dark chocolate usually has 70+% cacao.
You shut your dirty blasphemous mouth. Heathen.
I didn't think this was going to be an unpopular opinion, but this apparently strikes a nerve with chocolate lovers.
Anyway, I don't agree with the claim but taste is always a personal preference and it's pointless stating one is better than the other.
I'm sympathetic. Not sure I agree, but I'm sympathetic.
As a supertaster, bitter things are difficult to enjoy because even slight bitterness tends to overpower everything else. So I agree with OP and will take my downvotes accordingly.
Yep, its unpupular alright. Agree with you myself though it really shouldnt be called chocolate, more like a vainilla bar.
Don't slander vanilla like that
Thought so until the age of 10. So I'm making an educated bet, that you mightnjust grow out of it. otherwise eternal damnation awaits
Dark chocolate is awful and I'm in my 40s so I'm not "growing out of it".
There is always hope, my dear friend.
Let me try to change your mind...
Take 2 pounds of cream cheese, float the foil packs in warm water for 10-15 min. Drop the cheese into a bowl with 1.5 cups of sugar and hit it with a mixer until it's nice and smooth.
Add 3/4 cup Dutch processed cocoa powder. Dutch processing reduces the acidity and makes it darker and smoother.
5 eggs, 2 tablespoons of vanilla, then the secret ingredients, 1/4 cup of Grand Marnier and 2 teaspoons of orange extract.
Mix all that up until it's smooth again, then add an entire 10 oz. bag of miniature chocolate chips. Important you use mini chips because full size chips won't melt all the way and leave a weird texture.
Now, prep the pan, take a 9" springform pan and spray it with non-stick spray. Pop in 1/4 cup MORE Dutch processed cocoa powder and swirl it all around so it coats all the surfaces. This is going to bake into a dark chocolate crust.
Pour in the batter and bake at 200°F for EIGHT HOURS. I put it in the oven, go to bed and set an alarm. In the morning, your whole house will smell like chocolate and oranges.
Now, the worst part, it has to chill. You can't just eat it, it's pudding right now. So step 1, let it sit on a wire rack until it's room temp. 2 to 4 hours.
Put a plate on top, flip it over, and remove the springform pan. Put the cake in the refrigerator and chill another 2 to 4 hours.
When the cake is chilled, put another plate on top, flip it right side up, decorate, slice, and serve. I like topping it with some little candied oranges.
Don't do this if you dislike the orange/chocolate combination. I really dislike that, I don't know why. I don't like dark chocolate, prefer milk chocolate, but I like oranges. Putting them together will make me throw it away.
But it looks like a good recipe for those who do like the combo!
The brilliant bit is once you have the base mix, you can flavor it however you want by swapping out the Grand Marnier and Extract with whatever you want. I made a hazelnut version with Frangelico and hazelnut extract, but you could do banana, cocoanut, raspberry...
It's unpopular because most people think white chocolate has 0% cocoa beans
They're not wrong for the most part. Good white chocolate has cocoa butter, but a lot of the cheaper stuff substitutes this with various oils. No cocoa in sight.
Completely wrong
Holy cow, OP - this is an actual unpopular opinion! Nicely done!
People ITT: gatekeep chocolate.
I completely agree. White chocolate isn't as sweet and I believe is very underrated.
It's literally fat and sugar; what do you mean with "isn't as sweet" ?!
What do you mean? It's sickly sweet.
Ahhh, no.its missing the part that makes chocolate bitter. It's just sugar and fat
I don't hate white chocolate but I prefer the regular kind.