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[edit] White Chocolate vs. Confectioner's Coating vs. Almond Bark

I have heard "confectioner's coating" called both "white chocolate" and "almond bark". Does anyone know what the actual differences between these are? "Confectioner's Coating" does not have a wiki entry... -Grammaticus Repairo 18:45, 22 December 2006 (UTC)

"Almond Bark" contains almonds. ;)
I think there may be regional variation on what things are called. As far as I know, "confectioner's coating" means that it doesn't contain cocoa butter, so that it is easier to melt and enrobe candy centers with than actual chocolate. Summer coating = confectioner's coating = compound coating = compound chocolate = chocolate summer coating = decorator's chocolate = confectioners' chocolate = confectionery coating = chocolate flavored coating = confectioners’ coating chocolate. White chocolate contains cocoa butter and so is something different from confectioner's coating, though no doubt this distinction may not be observed by all. - Nunh-huh 03:20, 24 December 2006 (UTC)
I like chocolate !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.100.12.9 (talk) 00:23, 20 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Redundant wording

OK. What's the difference between:

needs to be at least 20% (by weight) cocoa butter, and at least 14% total milk solids

and

needs to contain not less than 20% cocoa butter and not less than 14% dry milk solids

Hmm?

Perhaps we can simplify to say that the EU has the same rules as the US? The only difference I did see was about the sugar content. 67.165.96.26 16:15, 20 December 2005 (UTC)


the difference is that one specifies that the 20% is by weight. do you understand what that means? weight and volume are not the same thing.. even when talking about chocolate.. and even among people who don't care about science but just eating chocolate, like you. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.9.47.5 (talk • contribs) 02:09, 15 September 2006

AFAIK all specifications are by weight, even if that's not explicitely in the article. Icek 16:19, 27 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Comment on History of White Chocolate

The article says that white chocolate was first popularly introduced in 1984 by Nestle's Alpine bar. For two reasons, I don't think that is accurate.

First, I grew up in the Washington DC area in the 1960's and 1970's and recall buying white chocolate at Fannie May's candy in Springfield Mall. Fannie May was (and still is, I believe) a widespread chain of candy shops regularly found in the enclosed malls that started popping up in the 1960's. Just like B.Dalton Bookseller (although that chain is mostly gone now).

Second, one of my favorite childhood candy bars was the Zero bar, which is a white chocolate coating covering a caramel/almondy nougat. That bar has been around for much longer than just since 1984. While the Apline bar was perhaps the first solid white chocolate bar, I think the Zero bar predates it.

According to Hershey the Zero is coated in "white fudge." I don't know if "white fudge" is the same as white chocolate.

--Pdpinch 03:26, 27 August 2006 (UTC)

I think using the term 'popularly introduced' is just weasel words for "In my experience, I'd only ever heard of white chocolate when it was introduced". I'm sure it was popular in some circles well before that, or Nestle wouldn't have even put any money into researching a new candy bar. Personally, when Nestle came out with that candy bar, I remember thinking "Hey! I love white chocolate, I can't wait to try one of those.". —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.95.233.213 (talk) 21:21, 4 February 2008 (UTC)
In 1976–7 my favorite candybars included Nestlé Galak, white chocolate with cornflakes(!). I was living in Switzerland at the time. —Tamfang (talk) 07:43, 15 February 2008 (UTC)

In the following section, the article claims white chocolate was made in New Hampshire after WWI and then immediately contradicts itself by saying that M&M was the first to prodcue it after seeing it made in Europe. Hasn't anyone already noticed this??:

Origin and production

White chocolate was first made in New Hampshire after World War I. M&M Candy was the first to produce white chocolate in the United States, having seen the product made in Europe just one year earlier. It was first popularly distributed in America in 1948[citation needed] with the introduction of Nestlé's Alpine White Chocolate bar, which contained white chocolate and chopped almonds.


And why hasn't this been cleaned up:

Composition and regulations

White chocolate is made of 100% terrible. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 209.6.166.95 (talk) 03:11, 9 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Cleanup, picture and sources

I can't see any reason for the cleanup tag, I don't think the article needs one. Also, there is already an appropriate photo- do we really need another one? What would be nice are some sources... J Milburn 11:43, 29 October 2006 (UTC)

I realize this comment is slightly later in date than the previous, but i have to disagree. This article is pretty bad for a wikipedia article on something as common as white chocolate. Considering the amount of information on "chocolate" i find it hard to believe that there is this little to say on white chocolate. Either this page needs a massive rework, or it needs to be merged with chocolate. I'm not going to put the tags on myself, because i don't want to defend any one choice as to how this goes, but something needs to change. Archtemplar 00:28, 18 May 2007 (UTC)

Wow, this article sucks. I have no inclination myself to do some research, but really guys, even the picture is awful. I'd like to put a clean-up tag on it, but I'm not that kind of guy - not the kind of guy who knows how to do that. 193.171.131.245 15:46, 8 June 2007 (UTC)

I don't think this a particularly constructive comment to leave on the discussion page. If you're not happy with the article and there is a distinct problem, such as missing citations, etc., then either fix the problem or put up a notice on the page so that others can fix it. Telling us that you think the article sucks and that the picture is awful doesn't really go anywhere. — metaprimer (talk) 11:05, 18 August 2007 (UTC)

Removed reference to Chris Glynn from the "Popular Culture" section as he is person of no real relevance. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Sbauman487 (talk • contribs) 16:50, 15 May 2008 (UTC)