Comments on: U.K. vs. U.S.A.: A Cheap Chocolate Showdown

By: DW

DW — Wed, 08 May 2013 16:58:10 +0000

One doesn’t have to travel far to get the UK version of the KitKat bar. They’re sold all over Canada, as Nestle has the rights to make and sell KitKats in the Great White North. And the UK/Canadian version is sold in specialty shops and supermarkets all over the NYC area.

By: Ruth

Ruth — Mon, 06 May 2013 04:59:15 +0000

I just want to say you don’t have to go to England to get the dark kind. There is a store called World Market and they have them there. Also other flavors like orange and cookies and cream. Plus they other assortments of chocolates you might like. Like Milky Way from Poland.

By: point of sale solution

point of sale solution — Sun, 28 Apr 2013 05:40:27 +0000

Kit Kat used to be my favourite, but I don’t think they are quite as good as they used to be.

By: mike marin

mike marin — Thu, 25 Apr 2013 04:31:54 +0000

We came across the UK kitkat bars by accident today. They are not cheap but got some to take home. After trying them out at home, hands down the UK kitkats are much better.

By: Lai-Lai

Lai-Lai — Wed, 17 Apr 2013 02:45:52 +0000

Same here. If it’s American chocolate, I avoid Nestle & Hershey’s & go for Dove. If it’s in the UK, I avoid Cadbury. In the end, I’d rather have Lindt, & I don’t care if their bars are $4-$6 apiece, & if there’s milk in it, it’s not dark chocolate. Lindt makes the tastiest white chocolate too.

By: gzuckier

gzuckier — Mon, 01 Apr 2013 01:55:52 +0000

In contrast to other countries, American chocolate is mainly manufactured using the Hershey method, which allows for use of somewhat sour milk, which lowers the manufacturing cost. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hershey_bar#Hershey.27s_Milk_Chocolate
The big market share of the US held by Hershey ends up requiring other manufacturers to emulate the flavor for the mass market, who have become used to it. Thus the difference in flavor between US chocolate and other countries’ chocolate in general. Connoisseurs and all us other elitists can find the slight sourness inherent in the Hershey process a bit offputting, as do residents of other countries.
As for the dark chocolate bars mentioned here, if I remember my ingredients labels correctly, although dark chocolate KitKat, not being milk chocolate, does not include milk as an ingredient, it includes some milk-derived products, which may carry the typical Hershey flavor with them; or, the flavor might just be slanted to match Hershey milk chocolate as mentioned above; or maybe this has nothing to do with it.

By: DaveM

DaveM — Fri, 01 Mar 2013 03:47:41 +0000

Kit Kats are or at least were made in “limited editions” each year, usually around the holiday season. One year my local dollar store got a whole bunch of orange and mint-flavored Kit Kats, which I believe were made in England. They were incredible. I wound up buying an entire box of the large bars and giving some as gifts.

By: Alan B

Alan B — Thu, 28 Feb 2013 09:26:28 +0000

America does many, many things better than any other country, but dime-store-level chocolate is not one of them. Most other countries use Hershey-type chocolate as dog treats.

By: Dr x

Dr x — Mon, 28 Jan 2013 02:50:15 +0000

Not a very reliable test or unbiased conclusions huh?

By: Dave

Dave — Thu, 10 Jan 2013 20:52:54 +0000

Sarah, You need to give Askinosie Chocolate a try. Learned about them via twitter, and have found their dark chocolate to be excellent (not saying it isn’t all excellent, I just love dark). Not only is the chocolate good, but they treat their growers very well. http://www.askinosie.com/

By: Kate

Kate — Wed, 09 Jan 2013 20:27:34 +0000

Skip the KitKit and get a RitterSport neapolitan. Puts KitKats to shame.

By: Luke

Luke — Sun, 16 Dec 2012 17:39:45 +0000

You need to try the Canadian version of dark chocolate Kit Kat.

By: popperG

popperG — Sat, 15 Dec 2012 15:32:17 +0000

So your choice of chocolate is based mainly on your politics? That renders your opinion utterly valueless!

By: Baly

Baly — Thu, 27 Jan 2011 22:46:03 +0000

Yeah, but then there’s this boycott of Nestlé because of its baby formula practices:
http://www.babymilkaction.org/pages/boycott.html
An alternative chocolate wafer candy is Fair Break, which I haven’t seen in the U.S. yet…

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