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American Chocolate Sucks
Topic Started: Nov 24 2007, 09:40 AM (840 Views)
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Nov 25 2007, 09:49 PM
ok just cause i joined late...

˘ŔAmerican Chocolate is good, I'm sorry but it is. I normally eat choco/peanut butter mixes though, butterfinger and reeses kic kall ass.

˘ŔAmericans are good at mostly everything, although not one is good at everything, we have at least one who is the best at something.

˘ŔChina is going to start a war with the us, russia joins china, europe joins america, world ends, grats.

China has over 200,000,000 people doing well. This should be disconcerting, except for the fact that they have 900,000,000 living in poverty. They will need to deal with that, and soon, or they will have a very major civil war on their hands. Their wealth and success is very illusional!

Paradise, Americans are experts on making love! Nuff said.

Also, our chocolate is generally milk chocolate. Different taste, different texture. We can, and are, starting to make good chocolates! Kinda like Starbucks when they started out. Hidden away and hard to find, but a delight when you do.

Most of the chocolate you can buy here in an airport or 7-11 is crap however.
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Ghiradelli is an example of American progress in chocolate, I would say. Definately better than Hershey's though not quite European standard...

As for your assertions Proto, Alls I'm gonna say is...no. American chocolate, much like American cars, have a ways to go before they can be considered good relative to the rest of the world.
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Lol, Ghirardelli doesn't even sound American.
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Tristan da Cunha
Nov 25 2007, 10:31 PM
Lol, Ghirardelli doesn't even sound American.

From Wiki: "The Ghirardelli Chocolate Company is a United States division of Swiss candy-maker Lindt & Sprüngli. The company was founded by Italian chocolatier Domingo Ghirardelli."

I think calling it American chocolate is a slight stretch.
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It was originally American (Italian, but founded in America), and the European chocolatier would not have bought them (which was only in 1998) unless they had something to offer, which they did back in those days.
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Tristan da Cunha
Nov 25 2007, 11:31 PM
Lol, Ghirardelli doesn't even sound American.

Yeah, well considering every American has either some European, African, Hispanic, Asian, Middle Eastern, or Polynesian lineage in them, that's not saying much.
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Nov 25 2007, 11:35 PM
Tristan da Cunha
Nov 25 2007, 10:31 PM
Lol, Ghirardelli doesn't even sound American.

From Wiki: "The Ghirardelli Chocolate Company is a United States division of Swiss candy-maker Lindt & Sprüngli. The company was founded by Italian chocolatier Domingo Ghirardelli."

I think calling it American chocolate is a slight stretch.

Mmmmmmmmmmmmm, Lindt is the BEST chocolate in the world. Period.
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Nov 26 2007, 01:38 AM
Tristan da Cunha
Nov 25 2007, 11:31 PM
Lol, Ghirardelli doesn't even sound American.

Yeah, well considering every American has either some European, African, Hispanic, Asian, Middle Eastern, or Polynesian lineage in them, that's not saying much.

It's saying a lot actually.

Hershey sounds American. Ford sounds American. Peyton Manning sounds American.

Ghirardelli sounds like Lamborghini.
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That sounds like a WASP-like attitude there....
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Tristan da Cunha
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I'm just saying, American chocolate isn't very good. The best "American" chocolate is made by some Italian boutique. We can be sure that people eat Ghirardelli not to eat American. They're eating for the Italian boutique.
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Those 'American' names sound very English or Scottish though...

Now, if you were to have 'Little Big-Tree' as an American chocolate maker then I might say you've got an American chocolate maker (along your kind of thought). ;)
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The US never stopped being English. It might in the future but not at the moment. Furthermore the very name America is an imperialist name imposed upon the red man by the white man. The red man rarely refers to himself as American. They don't even prefer the name Native American, more terminology imposed by the white man in the ivory tower. The red man sees himself as part of his particular tribal nation, such as Sioux, Iroquois, etc. But I digress.
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Red man :o
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Kasnyia
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Doesn't matter whether or not Ghiradelli is WASP enough to be considered "American" by your definition. It was founded in America and existed for a hundred years in America before Lindt bought it, and is apart of it's city's local culture, thus it is American. Technically and culturally.
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Kas, thanks for the correction. I didn't know it was American before being bought.
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Kasnyia
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No prob. ^_^
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Nov 26 2007, 10:10 AM
Doesn't matter whether or not Ghiradelli is WASP enough to be considered "American" by your definition. It was founded in America and existed for a hundred years in America before Lindt bought it, and is apart of it's city's local culture, thus it is American. Technically and culturally.

I know, I'm just saying that Ghirardelli does not sound American. In fact nobody would ever suspect the name Ghirardelli is associated with the US unless being notified.

Ghirardelli is similar to the Honda Ridgeline. Riddle me this - is the Honda Ridgeline American or Japanese (or even Canadian)?
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What surnames are associated with America other than the surnames of Presidents?
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Nov 26 2007, 01:17 PM
What surnames are associated with America other than the surnames of Presidents?

Most common names in America:

Smith (or derivations, Smythe, Schmidt, etc. Either English or German)
Jones (Welsh)
Johnson (English)

In Chicago:
Majority of sirnames are Polish

In L.A.
Majority of sirnames have Huspanic Origins

In Minneapolis, St. Louis, St. Paul, Kansas City, Etc, Majority of sirnames are German (Bastardations like Miller, Muller, Mays, where the accents and double vowels have been removed)

New York, majority Italian and Dutch.

Boston, majority Irish, Italian or Porteguise.

In Canada (non-Quebec) Majority of names are Scottish.

In New Orleans, majority are French.

Among Black America, majority are English or Welsh, since they took the last name of their southern slave owners after emancipation. Lots of Jones', Johnson's, Jefferson's, Williams', Davis', etc.

Vast majority of American names do NOT end with a vowel, making them Northern European, while more and more are ending in a vowel, making them Asian, southern European, African, Hispanic, etc.

CE, we are truly a melting pot, and a Yazstremski, Ghirardelli, Patel, Khoshaba, Guillani, Eisenhauer, Uminger, McCain, Clinton, Etc. can never, ever prove who is the most American. Ask someone in New York if DiMaggio is American, and they will answer "Absolutely as American as you can get."

When growing up, my best friends were: Sorich (Croasian), Rasmussen (German), Schulz (Dutch), Mathis (Greek), Lewis (English), Fullarton (Scot), Dykstra (Polish), McNeil (Scot).

All were born in America, and all of their parents were born in America. All had at least one Grandparent NOT born in America. All only spoke English.
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Exactly my point.
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Nice call NH.

Though Patels are not yet integrated enough to be considered American...they themselves don't consider it yet for the most part. :lol:
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Nov 26 2007, 02:17 PM
What surnames are associated with America other than the surnames of Presidents?

In terms of product lines:

McDonalds, Smuckers. Lysol, even. Wal-Mart.

There's actually no intuitive reason to assume the name Ghirardelli is American, just as there is no intuitive reason to assume Lamborghini or Ferrero (or Ferrari) is American.

Thus Ghirardelli doesn't sound American.
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Well, by that reasoning there is no intuitive reason to assume that any surname is American other than those that have lent themselves to famous companies or famous people (take Lopez for example, I'm sure many many people would associate the surname Lopez with America because of J-Lo).
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This thread is a discussion of products and brands, not just any surname. Unscientifically speaking, 95% of American products have Anglicized names, so non-Anglicized brands don't sound like American brands. Even if Yuri started a vodka company in New York City, his brand would not sound American. Simple. (though I'm sure a dozen axioms involving commutations have been violated there)

Lopez could be anyone from Madrid to Buenos Aires. Now "J-Lo" is an all American brand. Which Argentine parents in their right mind would name their kid Jennifer!

As I said earlier, it's worth noting that the best American chocolate has a venerable Europe heritage - very clearly reflected in its name and marketing - and isn't simply a guy pouring milk and cocoa beans into a huge vat in the middle of Pennsylvania. Thus reinforcing the title of the thread "American Chocolate Sucks".
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Paradise
Nov 25 2007, 05:48 PM
Is there something that the Americans do good? :lol:

Burger King... ;) :lol:
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