SO I WAS CHECKING THE YTTD WIKI EARLIER TODAY AND LIKE
WHAT ARE THESE SPRITES???? THEY WERE ADDED TODAY AND THERE ISN'T A SHIN MINI EPISODE YET SO IT OBVIOUSLY COULDN'T BE FOR THAT..... WHY WOULD THEY BE ADDED NOW???
Because the big reason many think of white chocolate mainly as 'white waxy stuff that ideally happens to other people,' especially in the US, is because the mainstream chocolate industry has essentially lied to us about what white chocolate is. For years.
Like okay, most likely in the US if you've had white chocolate on its own, you're thinking of a Hershey Cookies 'n' Creme bar.
I wrote 'creme' there, not 'cream' - that's not a typo, that's the real name. Because it contains no cocoa butter. As in, here are the ingredients:
It can't even legally call itself white chocolate. It's a creme bar, or a 'white' bar, but not a white chocolate bar.
And it's not just Hershey. If you look around the fine print in grocery stores you'll see a lot of 'white' or 'creme' or 'candy' products, but not much in the way of 'white chocolate.'
In contrast, here are the ingredients for a bean to bar white chocolate bar, Pump Street 44% Hacienda Limon: cocoa butter, cane sugar, milk powder. And that 44% means it's 44% cocoa butter.
What's even more offensive is that cocoa butter, like the cocoa beans it's pressed from, has flavor. Sure it's mainly creamy, but it's like how quality butter from happy grass fed cows has more depth of flavor compared to the cheaper stuff. Which is why brands like Pump Street make single origin cocoa butters, because they can show off that flavor.
So yeah, if you can try bean to bar or craft white chocolate, please do? You might be pleasantly surprised.
My boyfriend brought me a candy bar after work but I just woke up, and I have to wait about an hour after waking to eat (due to medication) and I'm just sitting here like frothing at the mouth shaking sweating trying so hard not to just rip that shit open