[kykaree]

I love Green and Blacks, I always keep some at home, as my "emergency" treat. That way I don't feel I am depreiving myself. As a "regular user" of dark chocolate, I find Cadbury's, Galaxy et al far too sweet.

[aphil]

For all of you ladies outside of the US, please don't judge US chocolate by Hershey alone.

Hershey is "cheap" chocolate here in America. It is very popular name brand, but CHEAP. I would equate it to having Folgers ground coffee, which is very popular and largely manufactured in the US, and then having a cup of fine coffee made with freshly ground exquisite beans.

I am from the US, but the "chocolate snob" in the title drew me in-because I am definitely a coffee, chocolate, and wine snob.

I don't know if they ship overseas, but the BEST chocolate you can get in the US is from a place a couple hours away from me. My husband gets it for me a few times a year, and it is a woman owned company.

Many famous celebrities order her chocolate, and have them at their business meetings/wedding receptions/etc. Her stuff is MARVELOUS.

www.debrand.com

This is THE BEST. She also caters to all likes-white, milk, dark, and bittersweet (extremely dark-from 65% to over 80% cacao.)

[Sarah Ann]

I'm not a chocolate lover but I got a really nice 85% chocolate from Lidl... I bought it to put in a chilli but decided to sample it in advance (just to make sure it wouldn't ruin my chilli ) It was lovely - much nicer than some of the very expensive makes of chocolate that I've tried.