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[splinky]

Does basic incompetence at the espoused craft extend to all NBC?

the important part is overcharging for mediocre product with cool crafty packaging and pretending that you can only make the crap in limited quantity. this is what's known as a business plan

[Abbylovi]

Damn Stone, I thought you'd back me up. A lawyer might ask - you say you don't like dark, salty chocolate. Did you think that spending $10 on it would change your mind?

I'm a little baffled by the responses here. I mean granted, I cut my teeth on Hershey bars so perhaps I'm a bit of a chocolate rube but I would by no means describe this chocolate the way that you guys are. Is all this venom because the makers are douche bags?

Maybe I'm not as harsh on the chocolate because Im spending considerably less at the PSFC?

[splinky]

Damn Stone, I thought you'd back me up. A lawyer might ask - you say you don't like dark, salty chocolate. Did you think that spending $10 on it would change your mind?

I'm a little baffled by the responses here. I mean granted, I cut my teeth on Hershey bars so perhaps I'm a bit of a chocolate rube but I would by no means describe this chocolate the way that you guys are. Is all this venom because the makers are douche bags?

Maybe I'm not as harsh on the chocolate because Im spending considerably less at the PSFC?

yes comrade, if the coop says it's good chocolate, then of course it's good chocolate.

[porkwah]

Damn Stone, I thought you'd back me up. A lawyer might ask - you say you don't like dark, salty chocolate. Did you think that spending $10 on it would change your mind?

I'm a little baffled by the responses here. I mean granted, I cut my teeth on Hershey bars so perhaps I'm a bit of a chocolate rube but I would by no means describe this chocolate the way that you guys are. Is all this venom because the makers are douche bags?

Maybe I'm not as harsh on the chocolate because Im spending considerably less at the PSFC?

possibly. if you happen to like it, then it's probably worth $4.

[Anthony Bonner]

Damn Stone, I thought you'd back me up. A lawyer might ask - you say you don't like dark, salty chocolate. Did you think that spending $10 on it would change your mind?

I'm a little baffled by the responses here. I mean granted, I cut my teeth on Hershey bars so perhaps I'm a bit of a chocolate rube but I would by no means describe this chocolate the way that you guys are. Is all this venom because the makers are douche bags?

Maybe I'm not as harsh on the chocolate because Im spending considerably less at the PSFC?

oh as much as I love to mock hipsters if they make something good I am more than happy to support them. THe Mast brothers packaging as well is just lovely. But that chocholate is mediocre at best, on a par with the worst things I have ever eaten at worst. Truffle bar I'm looking at you.

An example of an overpriced hipster chocholateer I like is Taza. Not conched so weird mouthfeel but I like the sharp acidity of it. Similarly priced to Mast

I do understand why Mast is expensive - they've got a subscale bean to bar operation. I think its weird that someone who focus on that though should be producing so many flavored bars

[Lex]

Then, however, I found this photograph of the Mast Brothers themselves:

They should have stuck to the cough drops.

I was thinking the same thing.

[Lex]

i found myself in williamsburg last night for the first time in quite a while. Bedford street is not much different from the MPD, is it? Just a different costume.

I think it's worse.

Deb and I were in WB Saturday afternoon. On Bedford Ave. we were treated to the sight of a chubby hipster in his mid 40s on a skateborard. A few blocks further north we saw his brother, 10 years younger and twice as obnoxious. He was wearing tights, an Italian bike shirt, expensive wrap around sunglasses and demonstrating his oh-so-cool skateboard moves by cutting in and out of traffic.

I thought he was a lock for Douchebag of the Year until 5 minutes later after we parked. As we got out of the car we saw a guy in yellow tights offset with hightop booties and a hat last seen worn by aliens in a 1950s sci-fi movie. He looked like the hipster version of Mercury.



In Williamsburg every day is Halloween.

[joiei]

Damn Stone, I thought you'd back me up. A lawyer might ask - you say you don't like dark, salty chocolate. Did you think that spending $10 on it would change your mind?

I'm a little baffled by the responses here. I mean granted, I cut my teeth on Hershey bars so perhaps I'm a bit of a chocolate rube but I would by no means describe this chocolate the way that you guys are. Is all this venom because the makers are douche bags?

Maybe I'm not as harsh on the chocolate because Im spending considerably less at the PSFC?

For a much better chocolate bar product at a better price point made by small chocolate makers you might try Patric chocolate or Askiniose chocolate or Amano chocolate, all American made single origins where they roast their own beans. A good European product is Amano, the procelana bar costs me $16 but it is worth it.

[Stone]

Damn Stone, I thought you'd back me up. A lawyer might ask - you say you don't like dark, salty chocolate. Did you think that spending $10 on it would change your mind?

I didn't have a milk chocolate option. And, as mentioned above, it's not just the taste, it's the texture (dry, hard, crumbly), and the chemical after-taste. However, it is possible that people who like dark chocolate (and I understand that among the sophisticatos, dark chocolate is preferred because milk chocolate is for overweight Americans who put ketchup on everything), this would enhance their enjoyment.

[Sneakeater]

Does basic incompetence at the espoused craft extend to all NBC?

Early NBC.

[Sneakeater]

I just love cheap Mexican hot chocolate chocolate, BTW, FWIW (when made into a beverage, of course).

[g.johnson]

Are the beans grown locally?

[splinky]

Are the beans grown locally?

in a hot leaky brooklyn basement meant to simulate a rain forest

[Scott -- DFW]

I think its weird that someone who focus on that though should be producing so many flavored bars

It's only weird if one believes--as apparently many do--that all or even most of the chocolate they sell is of their own making.

Scott

[Orik]

I think its weird that someone who focus on that though should be producing so many flavored bars

It's only weird if one believes--as apparently many do--that all or even most of the chocolate they sell is of their own making.

Scott

You sure got you some issues with fake chocolate makers