Chocolate Deities?

December 8, 2016 6:18 AM

The design and packaging are beautiful at Chocolate Deities, but I haven't found reviews of the chocolate itself, and it's a little expensive to buy on spec. Has anyone tried it, and if so, what did you think?
posted by Nancy Lebovitz to Food & Drink (5 answers total)

They've been in business a LONG time and have no social and a shitty website. Lots of articles about controversy, nothing about taste. I'd be leery.
posted by cyndigo at 9:44 AM on December 8, 2016 [1 favorite]

I've never had their chocolate, and maybe this info is somewhere buried on their website - but as a chocolate fiend, I'm concerned that they don't talk about the actual chocolate they use. Is it milk or dark chocolate? What is the percentage of the cacao? Where is the chocolate from? Is it organic or not? Do they champion Fair Trade practices? Is it made in a facility that uses nuts?

I'd at least want a list of ingredients, so that one could check for potential allergens.
posted by spinifex23 at 4:08 PM on December 8, 2016

OK, I stand corrected. I did find this:

"Chocolate Deities are handcrafted of excellent quality Belgian, fair-trade dark, milk and white chocolate by family chocolatiers in the Catskill Mountains of New York."
posted by spinifex23 at 4:10 PM on December 8, 2016

A lesson from the NoKa scadal: good chocolatiers are upfront about their couverture source. These folks are a bit coyer than I'd be entirely comfortable with.
posted by jackbishop at 7:49 AM on December 11, 2016

Response by poster: It's more or less resolved. If I had more money, I'd gamble on a small order, but it presumably isn't worth it now to me. There's a lot of good chocolate in the world to try first.
posted by Nancy Lebovitz at 6:55 AM on March 4, 2017