Survival Crisis Z

That stout sounds intriguing...On my trip to Europe, I'll need to go to every famous (and not so famous) brewery to try it all.

 

I still fail to see how both chocolate and beer, both excellent can still taste as good together....

 

It stands to reason that if A = good and B = good, then naturally A+B = good as well, perhaps even twice as good as each singly. How can you possibly refute that?

 

True, but sometimes you can get 2 good things, put them together and they are shit....

 

But do the math, Tel! Unless there's some negative in that formula, the results must, at the very least, be as good as each ingredient by itself.

And if you ever put together two good things to make shit, as you so colourfully put it, I suspect the fault lies in your tastebuds.

 

Trust me, this chef's palate has been trained well!

 

Palate or palette? Therein might lie the answer to your problems of bad taste resulting from the admixture of two good things, my good man.

 

Yes....thanks for that Spuddy. It is like putting lesbians and midgets together. Both two great things that just don't match.

 

A chili chocolate?

 

Well Van yes, when you add chilli and chocolate that is what you get, and remarkably VICE VERSA!
Though aI have actually seen chilli chocolate, but never tasted it.

 

Neither have I. How do the chocolate look like, is it like "normal" chocolate?

 

Hmm...did it look something like this?

4 slices bacon, diced
2 tbsp. oil
1 c. chopped onion
1 lb. ground beef
28 oz. can tomatoes
1 - 3 tbsp. chili powder
1 tbsp. ground unsweetened chocolate
1 1/2 tsp. garlic salt
1 tsp. cumin
1/4 tsp. pepper
16 oz. can kidney beans
1/2 c. chopped green pepper

In a heavy saucepan, saute bacon; stir in oil and onion. Add meat and cook until brown. Add tomatoes, chili powder, ground chocolate, garlic salt, cumin, and pepper; heat to boiling. Add kidney beans and green pepper. Simmer, covered, 20 minutes.


Or is it simply chocolate with chili pepper in it?

Though, I have to admit, the recipe I posted is for Chocolate Chili. I've had that before...it's quite good.

 

Yes they are some weird flavours. I saw recently on TV, British chefs competing for a chance to cook for the queen on her 80th birthday. One guy went to a chocolate shop and tasted lamb and chicken flavoured. Suprisingly he never chose that flavour for his dessert for the Queen though...

 

Wierd flavors, I will now with my great cooking
experience try to make some chili chocolate.

 

No. It doesn't. It's just your brain playing tricks with you.
As far as I know, chocolate is a quite usual ingredient in Central America (Mexico and alike). But, I have no proof or link to confirm this, it's just something I'm sure I've heard. Somewhere. I hope.