Fast Food - Changes

[Apple fanboy]

I have no idea if there are food industry requirements for the sale of chocolates, but there are lots of options relating to chocolate one can choose from. For example the amounts and types of cacao, sugar, and other ingredients, both in solid and liquid form, varies throughout the food industry. The best is to either find a commercial chocolate type you prefer, and drink this one, or just to gather all of the ingredients you prefer, and then mix these ingredients to attain the taste you enjoy the most.

Most of the stores' chocolate drinks contain quite a large amount of sugar and other sweeter, preservatives, and a myriad of flavors (the amount of cocoa/sugar/etc. in the package is on the label). The problem is that it takes a lot of effort for one to create the perfect chocolate blend at home, but once you have found the "right taste," then you have your most delicious chocolate

That said, when I was much younger I loved the sweet taste in chocolates from EU and the US, but now that I am much older I prefer chocolates (drinks or solid forms) that are low on sugar or sweeteners. The same for ice cream, where I may eat a small portion every 6 months. In fact, I don't remember that last time I had a scoop of ice cream.

You live in Alaska. Of course you don’t eat ice cream all too often! But I can imagine a hot chocolate going down well there.

I don’t eat much in the way of sweets or chocolate. But dark chocolate is nice. Usually I go for something like a Twix though.

 

[Scepticalscribe]

Spot on!

I can buy Mövenpick ice-cream much cheaper just across the border (same flavour) in Germany as I can in my local Swiss supermarket.

But ... if I look at the ingredients, the Swiss one is all milk, cream etc whereas the German one is milk protein powder, sugar etc.

However, there are small, local ice-cream companies, which use nothing but good quality natural products and whose products taste absolutely amazing. Granted, the downside is a higher price, than one would find from mass-produced rubbish, but - as an occasional - or, semi-occasional - treat - they are amazing.

And, whenever I buy ice-cream (which is not all that often, as I never much liked it, even as a child, but I used to buy it when my mother was still alive, as did the carer, for they both liked it), this is the only kind of ice-cream I will ever buy; The really good stuff.

 

[TechRunner]

However, there are small, local ice-cream companies, which use nothing but good quality natural products and whose products taste absolutely amazing.

We have one such creamery here in SW Florida. They distribute to area mom-and-pop places, so we need only drive ten minutes to enjoy "real" ice cream at one of three spots. I eat very little ice cream (full fat dairy is bad for my genetic cholesterol issues) but when I do indulge it's the higher quality stuff. No store-bought rubbish for me.

 

[Certificate of Excellence]

You live in Alaska. Of course you don’t eat ice cream all too often! But I can imagine a hot chocolate going down well there.

I don’t eat much in the way of sweets or chocolate. But dark chocolate is nice. Usually I go for something like a Twix though.

Mmm yes, 70% cacao dark chocolate please. I enjoy drinking chocolates as well with a bit of red chile powder and cinnamon.

 

[Scepticalscribe]

Mmm yes, 70% cacao dark chocolate please. I enjoy drinking chocolates as well with a bit of red chile powder and cinnamon.

70% cacao, wonderful, my idea of chocolate perfection.

Yum.

Actually, I'm quite partial to 77% cacao, or anything (and everything) up to 85% cocao; however, even I, with my marked, nay pronounced, preference for dark chocolate, will quail a little - just a little - at 99% cacao dark chocolate.

 

[AlaskaMoose]

You live in Alaska. Of course you don’t eat ice cream all too often! But I can imagine a hot chocolate going down well there.

I don’t eat much in the way of sweets or chocolate. But dark chocolate is nice. Usually I go for something like a Twix though.

Sometimes we experience very warm to hot springs and summers in the interior of Alaska, but the seasons are very short from perhaps late April to September. It has been raining quite a lot most of September, and today (23 September) the weather forecast shows a day temperature of 43º F (around 6-degrees C), and colder tonight at 34ºF or lower. If the rain continues it will probably turn into an ice/rain mixture very soon.

About ice cream: some of the local companies in Fairbanks produce and sell ice creams with Alaska wild blue and other berries, so during the summer I sometimes have a scoop of this ice cream now and then. My favorite however, is a blend of chocolate with very small chunks of peanut butter, but I seldom eat ice creams because I find most of them too sweet. The same for chocolate bars, but there is a company in Texas USA -I am reading the label right as I type- that makes organic dark chocolate wafers or very small cups that have a layer of raspberry creamè in the middle. My wife purchased a bag-full of these chocolates at the local CostCo store, and they are quite delicious. Since they are very sweet but of a small volume I can eat one or two per day to pacify my dark chocolate and sugar cravings...along a hot cup of very dark and plain coffee. The name on the of the wafer's is: Chocxo Raspberry Cremè Cups (certified organic and made in Canada).

Mmm yes, 70% cacao dark chocolate please. I enjoy drinking chocolates as well with a bit of red chile powder and cinnamon.

I have eaten a dark chocolate blend that has either chili pepper, or Jalapeño pepper. Both are quite good, but it is extremely wise to take very small bites of it 😁

 

[boswald]

I still catch myself eating pizza with friends, but for the most part I've cut out fast food. I don't miss it.

 

[adrianlondon]

I don't count pizza (ideally thin crust, proper oven) as fast food even though it is fast to cook 😁

 

[Certificate of Excellence]

Fast food to me has to be able to be eaten in a car neatly with one hand. If it doesn’t do that, it’s not fast food in my book.

 

[adrianlondon]

Fast food to me has to be able to be eaten in a car neatly with one hand. If it doesn’t do that, it’s not fast food in my book.

Such as scooping caviar out of a jar with a blini 😁

 

[Certificate of Excellence]

I’ll share why I have this rule. I did restaurant consultation work and was traveling back from from being in Raton NM. I was hungry so I grabbed some tacos, a seamingly harmless fast food. As I was driving back enjoying my tacos, a pronghorned antelope jumped over a fence and across the road as I was driving probably 75mph or so. Needless to say, I smashed the taco on the wheel while aspirating taco pieces and choking on that. It was a pretty terrible experience lol. After that tacos were off the fast food list.

 

[Nada Ting]

Fast food to me has to be able to be eaten in a car neatly with one hand. If it doesn’t do that, it’s not fast food in my book.

I've been in your car. It smells like a McDonalds dumpster.

 

[adrianlondon]

I've been in your car. It smells like a McDonalds dumpster.

Sure it's not antelope roadkill?