I, Deepy, am a chocoholic. This revelation came to me tonight after I finished off the last of a 120 gram chocolate bar. This would not seem so bad if I had not just bought two bars on Tuesday and I have now gone through both of them and it's Friday. Having become acclimated to crappy Hershey bars that are now more sawdust than cocoa and too cheap to buy real chocolate back in the States, imagine my surprise when, coming to the UK, you can buy a real chocolate 120 gram bar for only a pound fourteen.
These are known as Galaxy bars or Dove chocolate (as they are known in the States), owned by the Mars Company (beautiful, beautiful people). Or as a fellow Californian calls them, "The best chocolate you will ever have."
Unfortunately in the States, Dove chocolate is more expensive and they're sold in smaller quantities. In the UK, you can buy the bars by the bulk and they are fairly inexpensive for the quality of the chocolate that you are receiving (ie: real chocolate).
What makes them so great is that rich blend of sugar, milk, and cocoa that is not too sweet while just being the right amount of creamy as to not be overbearing. Wrapped in a golden foil with a curvy shape imprinted on the chocolate face, one can't escape the feeling of pure relaxation and tranquility that comes in the aftermath of that first bite, and the subsequent ones after. It's like a drug and once you've had one, there's no stopping until you've had more.
The ingredients in a Galaxy milk chocolate bar are as followed: sugar, cocoa butter, cocoa mass, skimmed milk powder, milk fat, lactose, demineralised whey powder, vegetable fat, emulsifiers, and natural vanilla extract. Notice the simplicity of the ingredients list, the lack of artificial flavoring, and the inclusion of real cocoa ingredients. It's natural and simple; and while it won't make you skinner or give you better complexion, it's still damn good.
Now, what to do until I buy another one...
An interesting article on cocoa substitution in Hershey's chocolate, I'm ashamed:
http://www.seriouseats.com/2008/09/chocolate-cocoa-butter-replacements-hersheys.html
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