Comments on: TCHO chocolate is just outta beta!

By: Teresa Nielsen Hayden / Moderator

Teresa Nielsen Hayden / Moderator — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

MissyB, I saw that when it came out, and it’s a great article.

By: OM

OM — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

..The real question is whether or not it breaks out my face like most American-made chocolates do thanks to the brown dyes they use.

By: freetardzero

freetardzero — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Yeah, why only for sale to continental US? Low melting point? Kinda doesn’t make much sense in the 21st Century! *le sigh* Oh well, I guess I’ll just go back to listening to Pandora…oh, wait. Nevermind.

By: missyb

missyb — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Yeah, except Noka’s a joke(a). Noka’s decent chocolate, but it’s also a scam.

http://www.dallasfood.org/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=78

By: brucethehoon

brucethehoon — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Ya, ya, whatever. TCHO is good choccies, but look at their TREAT line. They have dark chocolate covered honey roasted cashew pieces that I literally dream about. http://www.tcho.com/store/treats. Is it worth $20 for a (quite large) tin? YES. I just ordered my second :)

By: palindrome

palindrome — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

I’m as much a wannabe chocolate snob as the next prole, but by wallet can’t bear US$6 for a bar of the chocolate. Oh sure, I’ve bought a US$4 dollar bar at Costplus, but that’s pretty much my limit. Sorry guys! Good luck with that fancy moral chocolate bar!

By: Ugly Canuck

Ugly Canuck — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Can’t buy these but they look to be choco-tastic.

By: nerdler

nerdler — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

$30 for ~8.5 ounces of chocolate? Yikes.

By: PurpleWyrm

PurpleWyrm — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

The real question is is it manufactured by cannibalistic great-old-one-worshiping dwarfs?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tcho-Tcho

(Dagnabit, someone already made that reference in one of the earlier posts. Well I’m going to post this anyway :)

By: Daemon

Daemon — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

#2 That’s nothing compared to another chocolate company that’s shown up on Boing Boing, Noka. By a factor of at least 10…

http://www.boingboing.net/2006/12/27/chocolateobsessed-bl.html

By: Foolster41

Foolster41 — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

The name makes me think of THNO chocolate.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Is Tcho really making chocolate from bean to bar in the United States? Someone ought to look into that.

By: 5000!

5000! — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

there are plenty of boutique chocolate makers all over the world producing expensive connoisseur’s chocolate.

True, but there aren’t any producing it in America while at the same time working to be an agent of positive social change. Check out their statement about sourcing:

http://www.tcho.com/chocolate/tchosource

and slavery:

http://www.tcho.com/chocolate/no-slavery

They also have some alternate take on how to categorize chocolate flavors, but I’m not enough of a connoisseur to pay it much attention. I was, however, lucky enough to get some of the beta samples via Joi and it’s damn good.

By: Bledsoefilms

Bledsoefilms — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

@OM

no brown dies in this chocolate, I can personally vouch for it

By: alexeck

alexeck — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Man I would buy this. But $24 for 8.5 ounces of chocolate seems high. If they can bring their prices down just a bit more, I think they would have a lot of people buying it (I would!). Godiva sells a slightly larger amount of chocolate for $17.

By: blueworld

blueworld — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

#1: Just look at the ingredients. Any good dark chocolate, no matter where it’s made, should have a maximum of five ingredients: cocoa solids, cocoa butter, sugar, soy lecithin, and vanilla.

I don’t see what the big deal is about this new chocolate company. Pure and single origin chocolate has been gaining popularity for a few years and there are plenty of boutique chocolate makers all over the world producing expensive connoisseur’s chocolate.

By: Otter

Otter — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

The best I’ve ever tasted was about twice as much, and worth it. No, it wasn’t Noka:
Domori Criollo Porcelana, $4.95/25g, $0.198/g at Chocosphere*
Tcho Chocolatey, $12/120g, $0.10/g

*http://chocosphere.com/Html/Products/domori.html#dm_chateau

By: techdeviant

techdeviant — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

@10 5000! I don't know, Theo chocolate is also some damn good fair trade, sourced chocolate and its made right here in Seattle. theochocolate.com

By: sammich

sammich — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

I did beta-testing for Milky Way as a child in the 60′s – best job I ever had =D

By: Takuan

Takuan — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

we only had beta particle testing (stupid flat tasting strontium anyway!)

By: Raikus

Raikus — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

The real question is why is Oliver Stone offering me a chocolate bar?

By: soupisgoodfood

soupisgoodfood — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

I’ve generally thought, that when it comes to things like food, the makers should make what they think is best, not go by feedback. By dictating to feedback, they are simply producing the chocolate the appears to the most wide range of people. It’s like the Britney Spears of chocolate. It’s also like saying that they don’t know what they’re doing, and why would I want to pay so much for chocolate from people who don’t know what they’re doing?

Perhaps they do know what they’re doing and I’ve just seen to many open source energy drinks et al.