The Food Buster

La Iberica White Chocolate Bar
Peru

La Iberica is a “premier,” common producer of higher-end Peruvian chocolates, but it’s quality really doesn’t stand up to its name.
The bar has an odd taste for a white chocolate bar. Not very sweet at all (which is good), but it’s very bland. It has very little taste at all—just tastes [...]

La Iberica Dark Chocolate Bar
Peru
Like the La Iberica white chocolate bar, this just has an odd flavor. It’s nicer than the last, but it quickly turns awry with a strong, overpowering, coffee-like taste. It leaves a bad aftertaste. It does have a nice melt though, and its taste isn’t that bad. It has a nice [...]

Cote d’Or Chocolate—the whole brand
Belgian Chocolate
Cote d’Or is somewhat of a pricier, everyday chocolate, especially for foreign audiences. When I had it, though, it was in Belgium, where chocolate is taken so seriously that Cote d’Or is simply frowned upon as a candy bar, whereas for Americans it might seem pushing towards the gourmet.
I tried [...]

Toblerone Dark Chocolate Bar
Swiss Chocolate, as tasted in America
Overall Score: 3.0/5.0 for a cheap, commercial chocolate.

Very good for a lower-quality chocolate. It’s not cloying at all, nor is it overly bitter. The sweetness is well balanced, even though there is the obvious honey and nougat sweetness that is characteristic of toblerone. Still, it’s [...]

Costa, Costa Bitter Bar
Dark Milk Chocolate Bar
Articulated in Chile. Found throughout South America.
Overall score: 2.2/5.0, for a cheap candy bar. 1.5/5.0 otherwise.
Starts out with a pretty neutral taste and gets increasingly intense. However, for a bitter chocolate, it doesn’t taste too bitter. It’s really more of a dark milk chocolate. It has a decent melt [...]

Winter’s Prime Milk Chocolate Bar
Articulated in Peru. Tasted at Machu Picchu.
Overall Score: 2.5/5.0, considering how cheap the bar is (about a buck). 7.0/10 otherwise.
Very, very interestingly odd flavor. Starts out weak and not sweet, but it gets progressively sweeter. Overall, it feels reminiscent of a dark milk chocolate, though it clearly crosses the sweetness line towards [...]

Hershey’s Special Dark Chocolate (unflavored)
USA
About $1.50-$2.00
Overall Score: 1.5/5.0
Rich dark flavor, but not quite as smooth as I’d like it. Not sweet at all. A bit too bitter though.Melts okay in the mouth—in contrast to some of the other bars, does not have the candy bar taste artificial slipperiness. At the same time, it’s a bit [...]

Aguila Mousse Limon
Milk Chocolate Bar filled with Lemon Mousse
Argentina
Overall Score: 3.3/5.0 for a cheap, commercial chocolate.
First thought—delicious! Really smooth in the mouth and very creamy and rich. It is too much on the sweet side (it’s a commercial, non-artisanal chocolate after all), but it’s a nice, sugary fix. Lemon mousse is just right, not overpowering [...]