All my life, I have hated dark chocolate. Abhorred it. After a childhood Halloween candy spree, I would carefully remove each and every dark chocolate Hershey’s from my pile and toss them out. Through all my 23-odd years, I have avoided every bit of it in favor of creamy white chocolate or sweet milk chocolate. My primary complaint was that dark chocolate left a vile bitter aftertaste in my mouth.
Then, this weekend, I Mr. P bought a bar of Chocolove Raspberries in Dark Chocolate to sneak into a showing of Hot Fuzz (fine movie by the way). I broke off a corner of it and lo–! Angels did sing on high! It was so, so good. I went back to the store and purchased just a high quality organic plain dark chocolate bar for myself.
Now I’m hooked. How could this be? I feel like such a hypocrite for the years of lashing out at dark chocolate aficionados. Could it be that my taste in chocolate all these years have been perverted by low quality Hershey’s chocolates? Or even See’s? I felt unsure about spending $3 on a bar of chocolate, but dang…the pay off is good.
