Comments on: Take Your Pen Out of My Chocolate! https://www.saltshaker.net/20070425/take-your-pen-out-of-my-chocolate Casting a little flavor (and a few aspersions) on the world of food, drink, and life Fri, 13 Dec 2024 11:57:04 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1 By: matt https://www.saltshaker.net/20070425/take-your-pen-out-of-my-chocolate#comment-36183 Sat, 28 Apr 2007 17:34:49 +0000 https://www.saltshaker.net/20070425/take-your-pen-out-of-my-chocolate#comment-36183 yeah, cadbury’s is sooo good…it’s what we’ve been brought up on in the Uk so it’s what our taste buds have got used to. most british people prefer british crappy chocolate to real swiss chocolate…personally i like both but i do miss a good dairy milk or galaxy…there’s good chocolate over here in chile down in the south where all the german descendents are. i guess it’s the same over in argentina around bariloche. and maybe cordoba where there’s a big german population.

]]> By: Sugar and Spice https://www.saltshaker.net/20070425/take-your-pen-out-of-my-chocolate#comment-35681 Fri, 27 Apr 2007 14:49:00 +0000 https://www.saltshaker.net/20070425/take-your-pen-out-of-my-chocolate#comment-35681 Dan,

Apparently in Europe this measure went through years ago. Your crappy chocolate like product would most likely come under the brand of Cadbury. It looks like this measure was also already voted on here in Argentina and it was approved. There is more infomation on this (in Spanish) at the following link:

http://elcuerpodecristo.com/wiki/No+jodan+con+el+chocolate%21

Saludos,
Frank E. Almeida

]]> By: dan https://www.saltshaker.net/20070425/take-your-pen-out-of-my-chocolate#comment-35625 Fri, 27 Apr 2007 11:48:15 +0000 https://www.saltshaker.net/20070425/take-your-pen-out-of-my-chocolate#comment-35625 Washington Post followup today.

]]> By: matt https://www.saltshaker.net/20070425/take-your-pen-out-of-my-chocolate#comment-35399 Thu, 26 Apr 2007 23:18:12 +0000 https://www.saltshaker.net/20070425/take-your-pen-out-of-my-chocolate#comment-35399 i’m pretty sure that in england, chocolate is made the cheaper way and it’s always been called ‘chocolate’. the problem with this was when other EU countries (particularly the swiss and french) refused to accept english ‘chocolate’ unless it was called something else. i seem to remember that the english recently won their battle but i could be mistaken…as an aside, i love english chocolate, vegetable fats and all…

]]> By: ksternberg https://www.saltshaker.net/20070425/take-your-pen-out-of-my-chocolate#comment-35064 Wed, 25 Apr 2007 15:42:52 +0000 https://www.saltshaker.net/20070425/take-your-pen-out-of-my-chocolate#comment-35064 Thank you for alerting me to this, Dan. I just submitted my comments to the FDA.

]]> By: Frank Almeida https://www.saltshaker.net/20070425/take-your-pen-out-of-my-chocolate#comment-34992 Wed, 25 Apr 2007 13:20:25 +0000 https://www.saltshaker.net/20070425/take-your-pen-out-of-my-chocolate#comment-34992 Dan,

I just sent an e-mail with a link to your site to the Newcomer´s group. I also just submitted my comments. What rubbish. I have never seen the US act like such a third world country since I can remember. But then again I have different perspective looking at it from the outside. Were we always like this?

“This may seem like it doesn’t really affect us much here in Buenos Aires but I think that down the line this will affect us. Already, you have in the local kiosks “chocolate” products that are made with partially hydrogenated vegetable oil.

Dan Perlman, through his blog, wrote about the FDA and that they are considering changing the legal definition of chocolate to allow big companies (Nestle, Hershey’s, etc.) to use cheap oils as opposed to cocoa butter and still allow to call their product “chocolate”. Why is this important? Well it is exactly like letting margarine companies call their product butter. In the case of chocolate, one is a known health hazard while the other one (cocoa butter) is filled with rich antioxidants.

Why do I think that this will eventually affect us here? Big business has no boundaries. They will try to get away with this everywhere and like it or not, the world does tend to look at what is happening in the United States.”

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