Translucent Chocolates
Don’t get me started on American chocolate!
It just isn’t the same as anything we get over here in the UK. I’m sure they have some decent stuff (that box of Sears Candy that I received as a gift several years ago a case in point) but these Translucent Chocolates just don’t taste of chocolate. The almond inside is fine, lovely and crunchy. Other reviewers seem more impressed - see Sara’s take on a mix she received and Joanna’s green colored sunflower seeds
Perhaps someone can enlighten me on the differences between chocolate on either side of the Atlantic. Is there a chemical difference? A differing manufacturing difference that effects taste and texture? Universally it seems that us Brits detest American chocolate!
I have to say presentation-wise I would have gone for all ‘egg shell’ rather than the mix of pastel shaded and egg-shell if I was making a box; perhaps though another cultural difference. Makes for good foodporn though.
Translucent Chocolates has a mighty fine website.
I think it could be about the sum of it’s parts. When I visited England for the first time I was most struck by how different both milk and sugar tasted from what I was used to here in Canada.