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>>6718331
Infinite shitposting loop activated

>>5813174
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>>5090330

Chocolate fact: most Americans who express a love for high % dark chocolate can be found to actually have a natural preference for milk chocolate that they feel, for one reason or another, is "immature" and "unsophisticated" and can hardly be admitted to themselves let alone expressed to others.

This is caused by lack of confidence in their own preferences, and a perception that high % chocolate is what "mature gourmet" people would like. It is confirmed for them by the fact that most cheap chocolate they know is milk chocolate and most milk chocolate in America has vomit chemicals added to it. Most Americans' first exposure to chocolate that isn't infused with vomit chemicals is through imported Lindt (a terrible chocolate in reality but the best most Americans have ever seen in stores, and easily superior to the default stuff they grew up with). Their impressionable minds instantly link "sophisticated" European chocolate with this awful Lindt dark chocolate and unsophisticated American chocolate (Hersheys) with milk chocolate. This despite the fact that some of the very best dark chocolates in the world are American and the best milk chocolates in the world are European. Any apparent deviation from this initial introduction to world chocolates is dismissed as a product of their own poor judgment (which they have, in spades).

The psychology of chocolate % is a funny thing. Real chocolate lovers appreciate both milk and dark, as separate and good things. It's a shame lack of confidence and a gastronomic inferiority complex causes so many Americans to avoid milk chocolate, but that can't be helped if there is hardly any good milk chocolate to be found in the country.

>>4834423

I'm the king of the moon

>>4618842

Concentrate. It will come to you.