Milk Chocolate Taste Test

Tip of the day.... experience European chocolate. And bring some bars home for a taste test with your friends and family.

Here is a 300 gm bar of Lindt Swiss Premium Chocolate picked up (conveniently) at the Charles de Gaulle (CGD) airport shop in Paris. I bought these bars at the airport in Germany a couple years ago, and found them easily in the Paris airport as well. Buying big bars on the way home is a handy way to traffic your chocolate.


The 1oo g bar of COOP bio milk chocolate from Switzerland.
In Switzerland, there are a couple large Grocery store chains. One is Coop - the website states "Coop is the second-largest retailer in Switzerland. Besides traditional branded articles, we offer our customers a unique range of environmentally friendly, humanely produced and socially responsible products." www.coop.ch

We picked up a few bars of my Swiss friend's favorite chocolate. Coop has their own line of what they call bio foods - in the US we call it organic. Bio is short for bio-organic.

I peeled open the bars for a taste test.

The Lindt smelled sweet and chocolatey. The COOP chocolate smelled like cocoa butter to me. But my kids found the COOP chocolate creamier, it was a smaller square so you could savor it and let it melt over your tongue. The Lindt was a bigger square, and needed to be bitten. I loved them both, and especially a comparison taste test and my kids impressions and discernment. Chocolate - yum.

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