For Anna

[polygonum]

That I do understand - and to some extent agree. Some days I need a quick fix, others a slow dissolve is fine.

[Bob Eager]

LOL!

[Java Jive]

I suspect the general consensus among chocolatiers would be, as it is with me: If you like milk chocolate, you don't really like 'proper' chocolate at all. Hence the lack of strong milk chocolate.

Personally I can't stand milk chocolate. To me it's like instant coffee when compared with real, like tea-bags rather than pot-made tea, like canned soup compared with home-made, like white-sliced 'Kleenex tissue' bread compared with a wholemeal or granary loaf: insipid and foul.

Seconded. The co-op also do an own brand fairtrade version, which, though good, is not as nice as the Lindt.

[charles]

Lidl have a range of German chocolate. I like Ritter Sport, usually found in small bars (100g) but Lidl have giant bars (250g) at less than twice then price of the small ones. Just shows how the pound has fallen the small bars were 80p 5 years ago, now £1.40 in our local shop.

[polygonum]

Yes - the large Ritters are a decent price in Lidl, but none is plain chocolate.