I can't eat it at every meal.

Good chocolate? Nothing. The author is both partially right and partially wrong. Cocoa does go bad, chocolate does go bad, and there's a difference between fresh and not.

Chocolate CAN BE the lazy cook's great enabler. And a large part of this is because people accept chocolate at a low level.

It is harder to eat a bad berry pie than it is a bad chocolate cake. The basic flavors of chocolate, even if the depth is missing, even if the cake is stale and covered in gooey sauce and bad icing, you can get some basic flavours of chocolate. With bad berry pie, if the crust is bad, too dry, or too hard, or crunchy, it's just inedible. If the berries are out of season, or cooked improperly, it'll be ridiculously sour, or so sweet, or won't taste like berries at all.

Of course, I'm not sure why the author expects better of "casual dining" chains in the U.S. The food tends to be mediocre, sometimes bad, often greasy. Some chains are known for giving people food poisoning.

There's nothing wrong with chocolate. What's wrong is people making chocolate bad. Taking a fine art, and destroying it, or making it mediocre. What's wrong is people accepting it. Thinking that packets of hot chocolate are good, that that's hot chocolate. That that's what cocoa is. What's wrong, is not being able to look at a desert menu and being torn between everything. Sweet and tart, cold and warm, creamy and sharp, etc--because they are all crafts, they all have a delicate balance of flavours.

There is nothing wrong with cocoa. The only time there is anything wrong with chocolate is when it isn't made properly. Isn't treated with the respect it deserves.

Why, do people on here, like you, ask really stupid questions? Is it just to get loads of points? Must be I guess.

It's addictive?

It's so good you always want one more bite.

There is nothing wrong with Chocolate, only the problems arise when Chefs take the coco butter out and then call it Chocolate too when we know it's NOT.

Nothing. One of men's secret weapons since before language.

there is nothing wrong with chocolate as to people who gorge on it well that another Q