The TAM2 chocolate challenge

Scharffen Berger is the chocolate's name, according to this pic in a higher resolution.

Btw: the table was exceedingly messy by the time that chocolate orgy was over. I'm glad no one has kept evidence of that! :D
 
Re: The results

SkepticScott said:
After a the judges finished their chocolate melee, the results came in. The top three chocolates were:

First place went to Schanferberger, with 7 votes.
Second place was Van Otis, with 6 votes.
Third place went to Galaxy, with 5 votes.

(Each judge picked the three best, and there were about 11 judges. I lost count with last minute additions. When a skepchick tells you she promised Jamy Ian Swiss that he could be a judge, you don't say no!)
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Ok, ok, where can you get this Sharfenberger? Enquiring minds want to know!
 
I missed the chocolate challenge because I was presented with an opportunity that I simply could not pass up. (I will not discuss this opportunity at this time, but I will discuss it later. Suffice it to say that I am extremely glad that I did not pass up this opportunity.)

Anyway, I did have a chance to taste some of the leftover chocolates the following day. My opinion, such as it is, is that some of the samples did not deserve to be called "chocolate." Yuck! I suspect that the reason these samples were left over is because others held a similar opinion. Not one of the samples was as good as a Hershey's kiss.
 
Luciana Nery said:
Btw: the table was exceedingly messy by the time that chocolate orgy was over. I'm glad no one has kept evidence of that! :D
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You spoke too soon!


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Just for the record

Quoting the OP:
Originally posted by Chaos
Mr. "Belgian chocolate is the best in the world" Exarch, I hereby

challenge

you to prove this once and for all. :p


Let us settle the matter at TAM2.

I will bring German chocolate - brand: Milka, type: full-cream milk - to the meeting, you will bring Belgian chocolate - any brand, full-cream milk type.

Then we let the skepchicks present at TAM2 decide which is better. :fg:
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Since only a few entries actually met those requirements, all others, including Sharffen Berger, Van Otis and Galaxy are technically disqualified.

MoeFaux and Luciana are my witnesses that some of the best chocolate, which I didn't bother to enter in the contest for the above mentioned reason (but instead handed out to various skepchicks as presents :D) is far superior anyway :p
 
Girl 6 lives right near the Scharffen Berger factory (yet another reason to worship and envy her), but I actually brought said Scharffen Berger from the Boston area.
It is available in the US at Whole Foods Markets.

Phil Plait and I had a conversation about getting even more in-depth for the Chocolate Challenge II next year...the word "mouthfeel" was used several times...

I think a "dark" category, a "milk" category, and an "other distinguished uses of chocolate" category (cf. Tim Tams and other cookie/biscuits) may be indicated.
 
Eh, I hate to trumpet the TRIUMPH of San Francisco Bay Area chocolate, but....

NYAH, NYAH, NYAH!!!!

Take that, you Swiss chocolate lovers! SO THERE!! :p

:D

G6
 
That only means that somebody in the US has imported the Swiss or Belgium technology chocolate-wise. Because the true American chocolate, per se... :p
 
exarch said:

I feel as though I have shamed my fellow countrymen by not going to the challenge better prepared :(
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Let us all hope that the challenge will be better organised next year so that you can have your revenge.

I am quite sure that the judges did not test all of my chocolate since I found one chocolate where only five pieces was missing after the competition. And even if I must admit that Sweden is not the best country then it comes to dark chocolate we have some good milk chocolate. So more categories would be appreciated.
:)
 
deBergerac said:
I am quite sure that the judges did not test all of my chocolate since I found one chocolate where only five pieces was missing after the competition.
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My chocolate too was hardly touched. And it was regulation milk instead of banned dark.

I would raise a stink and complain about the unfairedness of it all, but frankly it just meant I kept more chocolate for myself :)
 
EXARCH:
My first instinct is to say damn you.
The night before last, I ran out of that delicious chocolate you gave me. The Sensantions Noir Orange Dark Chocolate. Yesterday was spent going through withdrawl. HOW WILL I LIVE WITHOUT THIS CHOCOLATE?!?!
I'm not a big chocolate person. But this stuff, dear sweet evil jesus, it was pure sex in my mouth. I grew addicted. I started hated anyone I shared it with at TAM. I was rationing it out.
I went to one of those world markets yesterday. I COULDN"T FIND IT! Google doesn't seem to be much help either. I don't think I can get this stuff in Vegas. What am I going to do? I'm going to turn into a quivering mass of goo!
I know this chocolate wasn't entered into the contest. But, dammit, I take back whatever vote I gave for number one (gasp!) (cue music and pinky to mouth and squinty eyes) and write in SENSATIONS NOIR ORANGE DARK CHOCOLATE as number one! I swear to you, this is the best chocolate I've ever had in my mouth. What else could work me up into such a frenzy?
Exarch! My love! Come back to the US! We'll run away together! Anything!!! JUST BRING MORE OF THAT CHOCOLATE!!!!!
 
Um, Moe... I think I can find that down the street from me... ;) I'll let you know!

G6
 
Geez Lou Ease, Moe, who taught you to use Google? I got this on my first try:

Sex in your mouth?

Of course, I hesitate to mention it, as I kinda like the thought of you reduced to quivering goo. Oops, did I say that or just think it?

-Laz
 
There's a reason they call it sensations of course :D

I must say I never really thought about how good it would taste to someone who's never tried it.

BTW, I have a bar of Sharffen Berger at home, and although it's good, I don't like it as much as Dagobah (which wasn't in the contest), both sent to me by a friend from San Fransisco.

So Moe, what can I get you to agree to in return for an aid package of Belgian chocolate? :D
 
Thanks to the miracle of internet business, sometime next week we will have a Sharffen Berger vs. Callibaut taste-off here. The kids are using Valentine's Day as an excuse to get me to make chocolate fondue.

Yeah, they had to work hard to do that. Really they did. :)
 
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