I pay $6 for 24 ounces of Ghirardelli semi-sweet chips. There is no effing way I would pay $1.70 PER OUNCE for this twit's chocolate when I can get it from Target for $0.25 an ounce!
He's doomed, that product will be gone within a year and people will copy his design in less than that because I doubt that you can patent a fundamental geometric shape. Well, you can patent it - you can patent anything - but will it stand up under a challenged reexamination?
Dandelion chocolate (who makes these chips) is an order of magnitude better than Ghirardelli chocolate. If you're getting Ghirardelli you must as well just go Hershey.
I have a mild curiosity as to what they taste like, but I doubt they're worlds better than Ghirardelli,
Yes, not only is the shape obsessively made, but each batch of chocolate is made from a single plantation, and the variety they can get from chocolate beans is amazing. If you ever have a chance to go into one of their stores, it's amazing. Certainly one of the top chocolatiers in the world, if not the best, but they only make dark chocolate.
You misspelled "top sobberiers". I bet you all the chocolate you can eat that you cannot tell what is what in an ABX test! And that all your "notes of" are hallicinated and trivially inflienced by what you have been told before.
"Only dark chocolate" already makes it obvious. Did you know that it was researched, that people who say they "like" bitter tastes, like beer (IPA) chocolate (dark), coffee (black), etc, do so, because their taste buds for bitterness are almost completely *dead*? (Ditto for eating hot
I bet you all the chocolate you can eat that you cannot tell what is what in an ABX test!
Between Dandelion and Ghirardelli? You might as well say I can't tell the difference between red and blue. Specific "notes" are harder to tell, but I don't really describe chocolate or coffee in that way.
I'm pretty sure that even you can tell the difference between how good instant coffee actually smells and how bad real coffee actually tastes.
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He's doomed, that product will be gone within a year and people will copy his design in less than that because I doubt that you can patent a fundamental geometric shape. Well, you can patent it - you can patent anything - but will it stand up under a challenged reexamination?
I have a mild curiosity as to what they taste
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I have a mild curiosity as to what they taste like, but I doubt they're worlds better than Ghirardelli,
Yes, not only is the shape obsessively made, but each batch of chocolate is made from a single plantation, and the variety they can get from chocolate beans is amazing. If you ever have a chance to go into one of their stores, it's amazing. Certainly one of the top chocolatiers in the world, if not the best, but they only make dark chocolate.
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You misspelled "top sobberiers".
I bet you all the chocolate you can eat that you cannot tell what is what in an ABX test! And that all your "notes of" are hallicinated and trivially inflienced by what you have been told before.
"Only dark chocolate" already makes it obvious.
Did you know that it was researched, that people who say they "like" bitter tastes, like beer (IPA) chocolate (dark), coffee (black), etc, do so, because their taste buds for bitterness are almost completely *dead*? (Ditto for eating hot
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I bet you all the chocolate you can eat that you cannot tell what is what in an ABX test!
Between Dandelion and Ghirardelli? You might as well say I can't tell the difference between red and blue. Specific "notes" are harder to tell, but I don't really describe chocolate or coffee in that way.
I'm pretty sure that even you can tell the difference between how good instant coffee actually smells and how bad real coffee actually tastes.