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Skriven 2014-12-05 13:12:00 av NANCY BACKUS (1:123/140)
     Kommentar till en text av MICHAEL LOO
Ärende: Re: permanently spoiled 3
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-=> Quoting Michael Loo to Nancy Backus on 12-03-14  05:39 <=-

 NB>> We've been permanently spoiled for certain things by having had
 NB>> superlative versions in the past... hard to find anything as good,
 ML> True. But depends on one's level of deprivation.
 ML> After a month without red meat, even a rather
 ML> mediocre example was super-welcome.

Oh, I wasn't saying we wouldn't make do with lesser... but one is almost
always making comparisons.  And granted, given deprivation, even the
mediocre is much more welcomed...  :)

 ML> I will in all probability never have Chateau Petrus
 ML> again and will cherish the memory of the second-to
 ML> last bottle (the last bottle was spoiled) for a
 ML> very long time. That will not affect my enjoyment
 ML> of lesser Merlots, even ones from California, which
 ML> are pretty much the most I can look forward to now.

That makes very good sense...  A once-in-a-lifetime experience is a
memory to be cherished, not really a yardstick to measure others
against...  :)

 ML>> Actually, Hershey's cocoa is quite okay in its most
 ML>> pristine form; it's when they mess around and start
 ML>> putting rotten milk flavoring in that you get trouble.
 NB>> Are you talking real milk or just flavoring...?
 ML> Hershey's? Who knows. Started out as real spoiled milk,
 ML> as that was what people got used to during the shortages
 ML> of WWII, but the claim is made that the deliberate choice
 ML> was made to preserve or reconstruct that flavor, because
 ML> the public wanted it. 

Ah.  Interesting claim.  But it does ring a little chime for me... I
always used to choose chocolate milk over white milk for my school milk,
since I knew it would taste better when they were both a bit off from
having sat a little too long in the sun (or whatever)...

 ML> The ingredients lists of what the
 ML> Website calls "iconic" products doesn't provide much
 ML> information or at least gives mostly ambiguity.
 ML> Hershey's milk chocolate (Kisses identical):
 ML> milk chocolate (sugar; milk; chocolate; cocoa butter;
 ML> lactose; milk fat; soy lecithin; vanillin, artificial
 ML> flavor) 
 ML> Hershey's Special Dark:
 ML> sugar; chocolate; cocoa butter; cocoa processed with alkali;
 ML> milk fat; lactose (milk); soy lecithin; pgpr, emulsifier;
 ML> vanillin, artificial flavor; milk 

Those look quite familiar...  :)

 ML> Hershey's Extra Dark (some interesting stuff here):
 ML> cocoa; milk fat; cocoa butter; soy lecithin; natural vanilla
 ML> flavor; milk); almonds (roasted in cocoa butter and/or
 ML> sunflower oil); sugar; contains 2% or less o f: cranberries;
 ML> blueberries; corn syrup; fruit juice concentrate (pomegranate
 ML> juice concentrate; apple juice concentrate; cranberry juice
 ML> concentrate; lemon juice concentrate); natural flavors;
 ML> maltodextrin; deionized apple juice concentrate; sunflower
 ML> oil; pectin; malic acid; sodium bicarbonate; sodium citrate;
 ML> ascorbic acid; citric acid. manufactured on the same
 ML> equipment that processes other tree nuts. Manufactured on the
 ML> same equipment that processes peanuts.

Well, yes... they mixed up all the ingredients for the three flavors
that get put into the bag of the squares of Hershey's Extra Dark... I
had always wondered if that was the only way to get those, apparently
it is...  ;)
 
From the backs of the two in my possession at the moment:
Pure Dark Chocolate:  
  Ingredients:  semi-sweet chocolate (chocolate; sugar; cocoa;
milk fat; cocoa butter; soy lecithin; natural vanilla flavor; milk).

pure dark chocolate with Cranberries, Blueberries & Almond pieces:
  Ingredients:  semi-sweet chocolate ([as above]); almonds (roasted in
cocoa butter and/or sunflower oil); sugar; blueberries; cranberries;
sunflower oil.

Same warning about the shared equipment as from what you found.  All the
rest of the listed ingredients are in the Pomegranate flavor, which as
you can see, I found to my dismay had apple in it...  Richard got all of
those from the bag...  ;(
 
 ML>> I did try one workaround, thinking, what if you
 ML>> could order the stuff through Amazon? Answer: no.
 NB>> Definitely a specialty item.  :)
 ML> If one has one's own market sewed up, there's no
 ML> reason for Amazon.

True.
 
 ML>> Recently I've become somewhat fond of Coca-Cola again
 ML>> despite the caffeine issue.
 NB>> Defies reason... but, then, most things do.. especially of this
 NB>> sort... ;)
 ML> I never made any claim that my more peculiar urges
 ML> are tinged with any rationality at all.

Merely recognizing that...  ;)  I have similar peculiar urges...

 ML> Dr. Pepper (3)
 ML> cat: booze, supposed tastealike
 ML> servings: 1
 ML> 1 1/2 oz amaretto
 ML> 1 1/2 oz coca-cola

Now that could be an experiment... try that against Dr. Pepper itself,
and see how well approximated the taste really is...  ;)

ttyl          neb

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