Uncooked chocolate
July 13, 2010emily 1 Comment »Fair warning: this might turn into a rant on Food Culture, The Death Of. At the grocery store last night, I picked up a few bars of Lindt dark chocolate (80%). As the checker rang them up, she looked at them quizzically and said, “what are you going to do with those?” I told her I planned to make brownies with them. The look of confusion on her face was something otherworldly. She seemed to not believe me. I laughed and joked that I should have said I was going to eat all of the chocolate myself. She chuckled nervously and said, “yeah, but isn’t that like eating [wait for it] uncooked chocolate?” Uncooked chocolate. Uncooked chocolate? Give me a minute while I weep for how little upcoming generations know about baking and cooking. What are these people eating? McDonalds? Frozen dinners? I digress. While I puzzled over what she meant by uncooked chocolate, it became clear that she was referring to Baker’s chocolate. I explained that no, dark chocolate isn’t the same as Baker’s chocolate and that it’s perfectly fine to eat. She nodded, but she clearly thought that my brownies were going to taste like ass. She probably also wondered why I wasn’t just going to use a boxed mix. Because isn’t that where brownies come from? Hold me.
Posted on July 14th, 2010 at 8:03 am
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“Uncooked chocolate” is my favorite new term. I’m going to use it at least three times today.