Worlds Finest Chocolates

I have been on a mission – no a quest. It has lasted me seventeen years, but now I believe that it is drawing to a close. I have been looking for the worlds finest chocolates since I was sixteen and first discovered this delicious confection. I was raised in a strict religious family which disdained sweets as an unhealthy and indulgent treat. When I first had a Reeses on my sixteenth birthday, I though that I would die. This must be the finest chocolate in the world, I thought. I could not imagine that anything could exist that would taste any better at all. Boy was I mistaken. The worlds finest chocolates are not sold out of some drug store, unless perhaps you live in Belgium. To find the worlds finest chocolates, you have to search far and wide, but the search is worth it.

I live in San Francisco, when I am not working as an international chocolate investigator (my spare time hobby). Many people around here like Ghiradelli chocolates. They think that they are the worlds finest chocolates, and I have to admit that they are really quite tasty. Nevertheless, these people are all mistaken, as there  are far better chocolates. The worlds finest chocolate is not made in the bay area, although many good and great things do come from here. But the worlds finest chocolates lie, I believe, across the oceans.

I have eaten Aztec chocolates, and I have to admit that they have something that other chocolates do not. I have not yet made up my mind if they are the worlds finest chocolates or not, but they are certainly in the running. Many of these traditional style chocolates have hot pepper in them. The cocoa is pounded by hand, making it stronger, and giving it a crumbly texture that is fascinating and yummy. Compared to many of the European chocolates, the chocolates of Mexico, although they are far older, still get very little attention at all. But still, I have not yet decided. Some nights I lie in bed and wonder, and am almost convinced that they are truly the worlds finest chocolates.

Still, there are other chocolates that are less complex, more immediately gratifying to the palette. These might be the worlds finest chocolates, because they immediately make you smile huge, and your head starts to float free from your body when you eat them. Complexity or sweetness; you decide.