Ruby Chocolate Wants a Place at the Table with Dark, Milk and White

[seycombi]

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/07/business/ruby-chocolate-pink-flavor.html?mcubz=1

[gaius]

Ruby chocolate “satisfies a new consumer need found among millennials — hedonistic indulgence,”

You mean like... avocado toast?

[sp332 → gaius]

Wow, glad we finally invented hedonistic indulgence. And just in time to make less money than previous generations, too!

[gaius → sp332]

Nothing in that article makes any sense, but that was the most egregious.

[qubex → gaius]

Premium Mediocrity?

[njharman]

I'll wait for Python Chocolate.

[petepete → njharman]

Meh, unless it's strongly and statically-typed I'm not going to use it in production.

/typical HN response

[maxfurman]

Certainly intriguing, although if it will be 6-18 months until I can try it I'm not sure why I should care.

[skandl]

White chocolate doesn't deserve a seat at the table.

Joking, but not really. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_chocolate

[happyopossum → skandl]

Preach!

[cool_username]

What I find puzzling is that this pink chocolate 'invented in 2017 by a Swiss company marketing to millenials' appears to have been available in British sweet shops for over 20 years.

https://www.sweetsncandy.co.uk/a-jar-of-pink-and-white-choco...

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/66/0b/87/660b8713654b075c0a81...

My conclusion: while the Swiss are masters of chocolate, the Brits are masters of time travel.

[anfractuosity → cool_username]

Hehe. I could be wrong but I think the pink chocolate mice are made with food colouring rather than coloured by the bean.

They do seem rather cagey on how they process the bean though.

A cacao pod sometimes looks slightly reddish, I wonder if the colour could come from that?

[zimpenfish → cool_username]

You know, I've never even considered that they were chocolate. I always thought they were just a smooth soft candy kind of thing. For, like, 4 decades.