For some, nothing that beats the sweet, creamy, slightly baked flavour of British chocolate, while others find it an affront to their tastebuds. But why does it taste that way at all?
I’d like to gift you all with this quote from Sir Pterry Pratchett, set in his fictional disc world, which has absolutely no parallels to our world:
“Wienrich and Boettcher were, naturally, foreigners, and according to Ankh-Morpork’s Guild of Confectioners, they did not understand the peculiarities of the city’s taste buds. Ankh-Morpork people, said the guild, were hearty, no-nonsense folk who did not want chocolate that was stuffed with cocoa liquor and were certainly not like the effete la-di-dah foreigners who wanted creme in everything. In fact, they actually preferred chocolate made mostly from milk, sugar, suet, hooves, lips, miscellaneous squeezings, rat droppings, plaster, flies, tallow, bits of tree, hair, lint, spiders, and powered cocoa husks. This meant that, according to the food standards of the great chocolate centers in Borogrovia and Quirm, Ankh-Morpork chocolate was formally classed as “cheese” and only escaped, through being the wrong colour, being defined as “tile grout.””
I’d like to gift you all with this quote from Sir Pterry Pratchett, set in his fictional disc world, which has absolutely no parallels to our world:
“Wienrich and Boettcher were, naturally, foreigners, and according to Ankh-Morpork’s Guild of Confectioners, they did not understand the peculiarities of the city’s taste buds. Ankh-Morpork people, said the guild, were hearty, no-nonsense folk who did not want chocolate that was stuffed with cocoa liquor and were certainly not like the effete la-di-dah foreigners who wanted creme in everything. In fact, they actually preferred chocolate made mostly from milk, sugar, suet, hooves, lips, miscellaneous squeezings, rat droppings, plaster, flies, tallow, bits of tree, hair, lint, spiders, and powered cocoa husks. This meant that, according to the food standards of the great chocolate centers in Borogrovia and Quirm, Ankh-Morpork chocolate was formally classed as “cheese” and only escaped, through being the wrong colour, being defined as “tile grout.””
You’re welcome