Chocolate Wars: the battle between chocolate that I taste on my travels!
The original chocolate war was between Sweden and Finland but new competitors have been added, from Norway, Estonia, Greece, Russia, Ukraine, Switzerland – anywhere I’ve been (or rather, anywhere it’s occurred to me while I was in the supermarket).
Who’s reigning supreme at the moment? Well, by the nature of my travels and the use-by date of chocolate, it’s a series of one-on-one fights rather than all-out war (but I’m a pretty big fan of Sweden, personally).
It’s been ages since I last did a Chocolate Wars! I wanted to do Cypriot chocolate vs Georgian chocolate but it turns out neither have a particularly noticeable national brand. I got some Greek Lacta in Larnaca but my options in Tbilisi were Milka or Russian Alpen and so today, obviously, I’m going Swiss. Yes,… More Chocolate Wars: Greek vs Swiss chocolate
Oh, this has been a long time coming! I finally bought some Icelandic chocolate and I’m comparing it to its Nordic brothers and sisters for the first time so this is the first of four battles coming over the next few months. In the red corner we have Sirius, the Iceland contender. Sirius is a… More Icelandic chocolate vs Swedish chocolate
At long last, I have another chocolate taste testing! I must admit, I always buy chocolate when I travel with the intention of taste testing it for the blog but then I stare at the pile and I just can’t face it. But since I can’t travel at the moment, this is chocolate available in… More Dutch chocolate vs German chocolate
Today I’m taste-testing two very different lots of chocolate. In the red corner, we have two brands of Russian chocolate, picked up in the supermarket on my first evening in Moscow, carried around Russia for nearly three weeks and then left in my room for over a month. In the…. also red corner, we have… More Swiss chocolate vs Russian chocolate
Whenever I go anywhere these days I always bring back chocolate because these chocolate tasting posts seem to be pretty popular. And today I have three new brands I’ve never seen before and we’re going to do Dutch chocolate vs Ukrainian chocolate. In the Ukrainian corner: Roshen. If you go to Ukraine, you’ll see Roshen… More Dutch chocolate vs Ukrainian chocolate
I know people like my chocolate posts so today we have another international tournament: Greek chocolate vs Swedish chocolate! I’m not entirely sure those two countries have ever been pitted together in any arena except football because the Mediterranean cradle of western civilisation has nothing to compare to the Scandinavian seat of northern European power.… More Greek chocolate vs Swedish chocolate
I’ve done Swedish chocolate vs Norwegian chocolate. I’ve done Swedish chocolate vs Finnish chocolate. I’ve done Swedish chocolate vs Swiss chocolate. And now I’m doing Swedish chocolate vs Swedish chocolate. This is Swedish chocolate from a normal shop, not from Ikea or from the airport so it’s in its traditional yellow wrapper rather than the… More Swedish chocolate vs Swedish chocolate
You people seem to like the international chocolate tests so I’ve got a good one today. The fabulous Swedish Marabou vs the legendary Swiss Lindt. My bar of Lindt is a bar of pretty standard Excellence Extra Creamy 100g vs Marabou Milk Chocolate 250g, so the Lindt looks pretty insubstantial next to the Marabou, which… More Swedish chocolate vs Swiss chocolate
Following on from Swedish chocolate vs Finnish chocolate, now I’m taste-testing Norwegian chocolate as well, because it’s important to know what’s the best chocolate when you’re heading off to the North Pole. These two bars have been sitting out of sight on top of a bookshelf since I got back from Svalbard about six months… More Swedish chocolate vs Norwegian chocolate
The battle of the chocolate continues. I’ve taste-tested Swedish Marabou and Finnish Karl Fazer. Now I’m trying Estonian chocolate. Estonian chocolate is called Kalev, which as far as I can tell, is named after a character in the Kalevala, which is a Finnish national epic. Estonia seems to be trying to stake a claim on it… More Estonian chocolate