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Cheese or chocolate?

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MawsRosie Sat 29-Aug-26 12:43:45

I have just finished making a very rich chocolate pudding (Nigella’s Salted Chocolate Tart for reference) for a family lunch I am off to tomorrow and there has been (just!) a bit of spoon and spatula licking!
Desperate for something savoury to counteract the sweetness, I’ve had a little piece of Stilton and like the Very Hungry Caterpillar, feel much better.
If I had to choose between them though - cheese or chocolate and could never have the other again… after much reflection I think it would have to be cheese.
There are so many wonderful cheeses, but then, handmade proper chocolatier origin chocolate?
Hard choice.
Which one would you choose?

Casdon Sat 29-Aug-26 16:42:32

I’m a floating voter, I love blue cheese, particularly blue Stilton and Gorgonzola, but I also love dark chocolate - I’d find it impossible to choose between them, it depends on the day.

MartavTaurus Sat 29-Aug-26 16:32:23

Difficult choice.
For me, chocolate.
Nigella always has good chocolate recipes! 😋

AGAA4 Sat 29-Aug-26 16:14:36

Another fan of vintage cheddar. Cheese is much more useful than chocolate which is just a sweet treat now and again.

JoyBloggs Sat 29-Aug-26 16:03:43

Dark chocolate without a doubt!

Greenfinch Sat 29-Aug-26 16:00:08

Cheese especially feta and Stilton. I cook with cheese a lot, not so much chocolate.

Calendargirl Sat 29-Aug-26 15:54:36

Chocolate, always.

silverlining48 Sat 29-Aug-26 15:20:35

Dark chocolate anytime. Even better with hazelnuts / praline.

MissAdventure Sat 29-Aug-26 15:15:52

Shinamae

Cheese…. vintage cheddar..🤨

Yes!!!! My favourite.

Oreo Sat 29-Aug-26 15:14:45

Cheese, Grommit!

Shinamae Sat 29-Aug-26 14:59:35

Cheese…. vintage cheddar..🤨

Oreo Sat 29-Aug-26 14:57:12

Cheese, without any hesitation 😃
Beautiful as your chocolate tarte looks OP, it would be too sweet and cloying for my taste.

BlueBelle Sat 29-Aug-26 14:45:50

Cheese
I don’t like chocolate and rarely eat it

M0nica Sat 29-Aug-26 13:57:30

If chocolate disappeared off the face of the world, I doubt I would notice. It is not the chocolate per se, but the sugar it comes with, even in plain chocolate.

I do not have a sweet tooth. Starters and no desserts is my pattern of eating. I eat cheese where other people eat biscuits, cakes, sweets, chocolate, ice cream.

However I am also mildly lactic intolerant. Fresh milk, yogurt, cottage and cream cheese are all off the menu. So I am dependent on hard cheese for my daily dose of calcium. I eat other sources of calcium with enthusiasm: brassicas and the like, but it is hard cheese that does the heavy lifting.

Well, that's my justification. I think I could do with a little bit of cheese.

SueDonim Sat 29-Aug-26 13:56:30

I’m not a huge chocolate fan. I don’t care for chocolate flavoured things so I think it’ll be cheese for me.

MissAdventure Sat 29-Aug-26 13:52:19

Cheese has always been a clear winner for me.

Cossy Sat 29-Aug-26 13:39:16

Both 🤣🤣 🐷🐷

Cabowich Sat 29-Aug-26 13:38:33

I couldn't possibly choose and don't feel I could exist without either of them. The last two letters of my posting name are 'ch' for cheese or chocolate.

Greyduster Sat 29-Aug-26 13:34:54

Has to be cheese for me. I love the variety of cheeses we have available to us. I’m very fond of Roquefort, and Cornish Yarg, as well as a nice farmhouse Lancashire!

kittylester Sat 29-Aug-26 13:29:32

Well, currently, I would say cheese as I had the most delicious steak sandwich with gorgonzola sauce the other day and i'm still thinking about it.

But, DD2 bought some chocolate with crunchie pieces in. It's in the freezer.

Decisions, decisions!

Gracey Sat 29-Aug-26 13:21:41

Oh, difficult decision.
I really don't like dark, bitter chocolate at all so it's easy for me to turn that down. Milk chocolate calls me though. If it's in the house I keep going back for more. Have to resist buying it.
Couldn't be without cheese though. Not tempted by it but for so many savoury dishes it's delicious. I prefer it cooked, so a block of cheese in the fridge is never a snack food for me, the way chocolate is.

We're having a big lunch with friends tomorrow so we've already decided it's a shared baked Camembert for tea tomorrow night, with crusty bread and a glass of wine.

I'll go for cheese but only because it's more nutritious. grin

watermeadow Sat 29-Aug-26 13:18:49

If either were available I’d eat all of it. Cheese does at least count as food whereas chocolate is a naughty treat which I eat only when given it.
I don’t like dark chocolate. Perhaps I shall when I’m grown up.

Aldom Sat 29-Aug-26 13:18:10

It's cheese for me, but in moderation.
Chocolate is pretty low on my list of preferences.

Fallingstar Sat 29-Aug-26 13:14:01

But that chocolate pudding does look amazing 😜

Fallingstar Sat 29-Aug-26 13:13:16

Cheese because it is so versatile and yummy in different dishes. Also I can give cubes of cheese as a snack to the GCs but no chocolate 🙄

JamesandJon33 Sat 29-Aug-26 13:09:01

When I was a teenager my favourite snack was a cheese sandwich, dipped, between bites in a cup of cocoa. A nice bit of each. Now I would say cheese.