Dark 90
by Wawel
Impact
A well-intentioned angel from Eastern Europe recommends this, saying that the reputation of things made in Poland has changed... reminding that the wall came down & Solidarnosc became triumphant (Jesus, that was, like, 20 years ago). Sadly, the Pope is no longer Polish, but this bar is still in the past & in need of divine, not clandestine, intervention.
Appearance 5 / 5
| Color: | black under any light |
| Surface: | inscrutable |
| Temper: | ganster silk |
| Snap: | brittle like the Berlin wall |
Aroma 8.4 / 10
hell of a smell... powerful dutched magic – 100% coconut cocoa w/ trace peanut butter
Mouthfeel 12.2 / 15
| Texture: | stiff |
| Melt: | emulsifier E476, some secret police agent, turns the experience into an experimental plastic gel |
Flavor 35.6 / 50
chocolate peanut butter -> dark Snickers -> tar (as if dried on the side of the road leading out of the Gdansk shipyards) -> slight bittering -> GMO nuts -> dim sign of hope - cherry / grape – drowned by coconut butter & shells
Quality 8.3 / 20
Besides add’l cocoa powder, “flavours” is listed among the ingredients. In the bowels of the factory where this is manufactured such mystery can meaning anything from everything to nothing. Eviscerated yet fairly edible; a simulacrum, of sorts, ala the Milosz Cold War classic Captive Mind; here an example of how chocolate should/must taste according to “The State” – uniform with ingrown ambiguity to fudge the truth. CBS ~3:3:1