No-Melt Chocolate Created By Swiss

The Guardian:

We have been indulging in it in various forms for at least 3,000 years, arguing over its influence on everything from our sexual appetites to our waistlines.

But now scientists for the world's largest chocolatier believe they have stumbled on the holy grail of chocolate: a recipe that is both melt-resistant and low-calorie.

Read the whole story: The Guardian

Comments

[jozzie]

Sounds gagarific.

Great just what we need: another plastic highly-processed sugar/fat carrier to put in our mouths.

[JohnnyKong]

Processed food - a cheap source of sustenance and profit. Put the medical bills on the government.

[Bitsko]

Sounds disgusting.

[Darcman]

If it doesn't melt, how is your body suppose to digest it?

[ProudToBeVeryLiberal]

I guess it stays unmelted all the way to the...exit­. Gross, I know.

[Coltrane1234]

Sounds pretty awesome.

[vandegrasse]

I like so don't want this golden ticket!

[fuzzynormal]

Did you just write something in English? I'm not sure.

[gemzenith]

Reference to Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Willy Wonka ring a bell?

[robotfog]

the phrase "I like so" is fairly common in the modern world. I like so don't want to have to explain this again.

[themodernleader]

We didn't discover meltless chocolate. We don't produce chocolate anymore. We also don't produce more than 20% of the vaccines that we need to combat the swine flu that may kill a mess of citizens who aren't vaccinated against it. Our free enterprise, free trade, no industry or technology country is providing us with the wherewithal for national suicide and servitude under the stick of wiser nations.

[CarmanK]

No, but we have HERSHEY in PA. And the government had to intervene to keep it from closing plants and moving ops overseas or down south of the border. But Milton Hershey was an honorable man, he gave his fortune over to the care of children-orphanted or troubled children of veterans. HERSHEY WILL always be my first choice. Hershey chocolate is a big part of my childhood, it is cheaper to buy than foreign o fferings and it is deliciious. In fact I just ate my diet allotted amount of dark chocolate for the day and it was finger licking good. I'll stick to the local stuff.

[vandegrasse]

Another need filled by corporations that was never really a need.

[aweissnet]

None of them are. We revolve around sneeds.

[OldPirate]

uhm...Hers­hey invented this in 1991. They made it to send to the troops in Iraq war 1. Non-melting cholcolate and it tasted like $hit.

[sticksnstones]

Just a niggling correction. Hersheys developed a heat resistant chocolate bar for the VietNam war. It was named Tropical Bar. So, you're off by about a quarter of a century. As far as it tasting like " $hit ", you are correct. Seems like some things cannot be improved upon.

[OldPirate]

You may be correct, I never verified the accuracy of the story of their "Desert Bar" made for the Iraq war. I just took what the Hershey works told me as fact back in '91, since they worked for Hershey.

I was told it was designed as melt resistant for the desert heat, thus "desert bar". The idea being to give a familiar and comforting taste to our people stuck in the desert.

Thanks for the correction if correct (i'm not going to research this). Either way, it tastes horrible and hershey did it long before now.

[robotfog]

it tasted badly because the flavor that chocolate holds is released when it is melting. They had that canned chocolate when I was in the military in 81 and the reason it was bad is because the process of making it heat resistance stole away the characteristics that make chocolate taste good.

The article says the Swiss stuff is supposedly tasty, but I'll leave that for others to suffer or decide.

[SangZe]

Next thing ya know, they'll be selling dripless ice cream.

[davidwayneosedach]

How does it taste?

[helenwheels]

It's supposed to be meIty! That's the whoIe point! It's SUPPOSED to meIt in your mouth!

[sophieozz]

And if it melts on your fingers, you just lick it off. Done.

[AGarcia]

Makes sense that it's the same as Government cheese...
They just process the heck out of it.

[RJII]

well ya got processed cheese food (??)...now we got processed chocolate food (??).

[brandnewstuff]

HAHA Peoria funny... love it!

[aweissnet]

Well, if it doesn't sell well, they'll do something else with it. No sense wasting a good innovation (sarcasm). Like Crisco, which was meant to be wax, and 30 years later arteries are glued together with cement-- that they blame on animal fat. Crisco is still alive and well.

No thanks.

[sophieozz]

Damn straight.

[littlepuffycloud]

Don't mess with good chocolate. It's perfect. It's meant to melt and that's how I want it.