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.

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. :D

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.)

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.