The thorntons approach to chocolate is to throw in a whole load of vanilla in, and it'll delude the casual chocolate buyer. I must admit that thornton's ain't bad, but it's overpriced.

green & blacks chocolate is lovely. And green & blacks do a maya gold easter egg. if you can get your hands on that, you're in for a treat!

you can also find G+B drinking cocoa, just add water (or add soy if particular on exacting the taste).

Lowest price: 1:95p if on offer (more usually 2.95 or 2.59 conversly).
Max Ripoff price: 3:75/95p or something stupid (yesyes~ for same product) :rolleyes:

I don't care about the quality, it's the taste and animal friendliness that matters! and i haven't seen any Green and Black's dark chocy brazils. My HFS sells the easter eggs, but i don't like eating dark chocolate alone, it's too overpowering for me. I do plan on buying some Booja Booja Hazelnut chocys, i noticed my HFS sells them, but they're like over £10. Nevermind, sure someone will buy em for me :D

Oh, and i wasn't too keen on the maya gold chocy unfortunately. Just checked the Thorntons box, there's no mention of vanilla in there.

VA, i've got the drinking chocolate, and made it once with soya milk, it wasn't very nice :( Unless i made it wrong.

How can you make it wrong?...lol.... Just remember that **natural** products can vary slightly (naturally) by maybe not being 100% consistent in taste or whatever, but I find it consistent 99% of the time.
and so too the quality of how made and so on (which you can take for granted) is always the same quality even though the latter aspect does not bother you. Natural products have natural variables is all I'm saying. :)

To taste, its all just according to strength which you like, and if too dark tasting for you Starlass, I suggest soy in it like I say, but you can use anything to take any slight bitterness away. Use Billingtons or somesuch brand if you want extra sugar.
Its not really bitter cocoa as is, at all to me, b'c I drink it all the time and would not prefer sweeter even if it were offered. However, organic raw cane sugar is in it.

So anyway add any milk-sub (purely optional).... which in my case is my other most commonly drank oatmilk. :) (or Soy, which is less thick than oatmilk of course. You need to shake the carton of oatmilk and sometimes even of soy).

HFS = health food stores... (I'm assuming that means, btw).

I haven't tried Green and Black's hot chocolate, but I do use their cocoa powder, which is just as tasty as any other IMO. I've never liked hot chocolate - I prefer to make it myself from cocoa powder, sugar and soya milk.

In general though, I find G+B chocolate, well, too dark really. I prefer the dark cooking chocolate you can get in supermarkets. I'll have to try Thornton's!

On the Subject of G and B, did anyone else notice that their mint chocolate is now vegan?

On the Subject of G and B, did anyone else notice that their mint chocolate is now vegan?

nope but might I might just have to do a taste test now :)

Hey, I come from Yorskshire.
I live near York and i don't think there any vegans or vegetarians near me lol. I dont even think there are any vege restaurants but never mind. I was born in London so i am a Southerner and speak like it even tho i have lived in yorkshire all my life- strange
luv lou

Right, now i'm really confused. I asked Thorntons to send me their information pack, so i could find out what's vegan, and all those products that are, have a Y (for yes) in the vegan column. There's no Y next to the dark chocolate brazil nuts, or any chocolate for that matter. I duno why?? The ingredients are vegan... the only thing i can think of is that there's the possibility they contain milk traces cos they're made using the same pipelines as the milk chocolate. Would this make them unsuitable for vegans?

Right, now i'm really confused. I asked Thorntons to send me their information pack, so i could find out what's vegan, and all those products that are, have a Y (for yes) in the vegan column. There's no Y next to the dark chocolate brazil nuts, or any chocolate for that matter. I duno why?? The ingredients are vegan... the only thing i can think of is that there's the possibility they contain milk traces cos they're made using the same pipelines as the milk chocolate. Would this make them unsuitable for vegans?

Thortons is rubbish mass produced chocolates made in huge factories with an army of employees. There's most likely little or no control over what is made in what equipment, hence they can't say what is vegan and what is not. Avoid Thorntons and stick with the smaller producers listed in this thread.

I say the same as you Falafel (in short)....

I don't eat anything made in same pipeline, thanks for that Starlass, I suspected such and you've confirmed it (as in for me not okay).

Hey, I come from Yorskshire.
I live near York and i don't think there any vegans or vegetarians near me lol. I dont even think there are any vege restaurants but never mind. I was born in London so i am a Southerner and speak like it even tho i have lived in yorkshire all my life- strange
luv lou

I ate vegan in York two nights running last year, so there are V restaurants around though I forget their names

^^^^^ Spud's right, check out happycow: http://www.happycow.net/europe/england/northeast_and_yorkshire/index.html
The one in Doncaster is a great little cafe, and York's the Blake Head is good too.

I ate vegan in York two nights running last year, so there are V restaurants around though I forget their names

I had one of the best vegan meals I've had in years at El Piano in York http://www.elpiano.co.uk/

I had one of the best vegan meals I've had in years at El Piano in York http://www.elpiano.co.uk/

The menu looks good..... :drool:

Hi i live in london..wimbledon.....we also have a house in greatstone....in kent....on the coast.....i don't like green + blacks so much its tooooo bitter...though i do love dark chocolate...my fave vegan chocolate is the plasmil one (u can get it from like tesco s + most health food sstores) esp the mint choc one.....

I just got some of the cherry green & blacks, and my god.... It's a bit gorgeous!

Yes, very decadent isn't it! When I was in NY I got a cherry and almond plain chocolate bar . . . I thought it was even better than the Green and Blacks!

Rococo in Fulham do wonderful quirky bars (for example orange and geranium, basil and lime, lavender, earl grey tea, pink pepper) and if you go in the shop you can sample them before you buy. They do mail order too.
http://www.rococochocolates.com/organic_artisan.0.html

I've tried the almond G&B, and I wasn't too keen on it. However, the dark, maya gold and cherry are gorgeous. The mint and milk G&B aren't vegan, but they are vegetarian, and I must say that they're quite good.

That cherry G&B is phenomenal! It's a shame it's more pricey than the regular kind!

Anyone know if Iceland's belgian plain choc (85p) is vegan? it certainly seems to be, they don't answer my emails :(

Juat spotted this on a vegan website - has anyone been here?
"As a vegetarian, and assistant manager of Hannah Restaurant, Nantwich, Cheshire, and Talke, Stoke-On-Trent, I have been working with closely with the chef to ensure an extensive variety of vegetarian and also vegan suitable meals to our new menu. We are delighted to cater for all special diets, and as all food is cooked fresh to order, you can specify your requirements when ordering. At Hannah's we have also worked to ensure our Buffet is also vegetarian friendly, proving ample dishes which use only the freshest and best quality local ingredients available, which means there is always a variety of vegetarian dishes available."

Anyone know if Iceland's belgian plain choc (85p) is vegan? it certainly seems to be, they don't answer my emails :(

Iceland's 'plain chocolate' isn't vegan according to these folks:
http://www.isitvegan.info/

Don't know if that answers your question, though...

Juat spotted this on a vegan website - has anyone been here?
"As a vegetarian, and assistant manager of Hannah Restaurant, Nantwich, Cheshire, and Talke, Stoke-On-Trent, I have been working with closely with the chef to ensure an extensive variety of vegetarian and also vegan suitable meals to our new menu. We are delighted to cater for all special diets, and as all food is cooked fresh to order, you can specify your requirements when ordering. At Hannah's we have also worked to ensure our Buffet is also vegetarian friendly, proving ample dishes which use only the freshest and best quality local ingredients available, which means there is always a variety of vegetarian dishes available."

Looks like just another omni restaurant with a good chef who's switched on to veggie cooking. http://www.cometonantwich.co.uk/view.php?client_id=452

I've found that almost all small, chef-run omni restaurants are more than happy to create a vegan meal for you if you simply call them a day or two before hand and warn them you're coming. The quality of chefs appearing in these small bistros just seems to be getting better and better.