What is It About Chocolate and Milk?
Most people enjoy chocolate, but I often find chocolate without a glass of milk isn’t quite as good.
The wife made some chocolate brownies earlier today, and with chocolate brownies I always have a glass of milk. If there’s no milk available, I’ll usually skip the brownies.
I got to wondering why this is. Most any time we have something chocolate while at home, I want a glass of milk with it. I generally prefer skim milk because it is less heavy and for health purposes, but I’m not above drinking another type of milk.
However, if I’m out on the road and have a chocolate candy bar or shake or something, I don’t have to have my milk. A soft drink is fine, though I don’t want tea or juice with my chocolate.
At home, though, any time I have chocolate, I’ve got to have milk. And it doesn’t matter what type of chocolate. Cakey chocolate, milk chocolate, dark chocolate, candy chocolate, chocolate icing, chocolate pastries … I want my milk!
I realize I sound like I’m crying like a little baby, but I’m genuinely wondering about this. Why do I want milk with chocolate? Do the two seem to go together naturally for some reason? Does the dairy offset the sweet of the chocolate? Or do my taste buds think the dairy in the milk compliments the dairy often found in many chocolates?
I don’t know. Don’t have a clue. It is a mystery to me.
Anyone have any ideas?
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As a chocolate addict, I have gotten so used to munching the brown stuff that I don’t need to eat it with anything. But in your case, if you’ve been so accustomed to have chocolate with milk from childhood, I suppose old habits die hard!
On the other hand, chocolate and milk do go well together, just like the wine and cheese combo, or cookies and milk, or bread and butter. It’s all a mystery!
Let me know if you have an answer for this, I’m very very curious myself.
~Josephine
*if you’ve been so accustomed to having
I’m such a grammar nazi, especially when it comes to myself! Argh
I guess it depends on the mood.they both have there place.milk with chocolate or milk chocolate or dark chocolate.
Chocolate is chocolate! love it.yum:)
Milk and chocolate are not the best of foods for our optimum health. For vibrant health, it is best to eat around 70% of our food “as grown”.
Milk is what supports chocolate most of the time, in fact if talk about processed chocolates, they are made not without milk, the combination sits together well, usually any sweet treat goes hand in hand with milk!!!
The original chocolatiers, the Indians of Mesoamerica, had a non-dairy civilization. They drank it in water-based beverages. I know a chocolate atole is sometimes given to children in Yucatan. To make it they squeeze a cacao pod into a corn-based beverage that is sweetened with honey.
I usually dont like to take single milk. But as i am too weak, my doctor advised me for one glass milk everyday.
Then i consult one of my fried and she prescribe for chocolate wid milk. And never had chocolate wid milk. But now a regular take chocolate wid milk.
Its too yummy to drink.
Choclates dont require any ornaments I guess. In my case I simply love both. Both together or seperately I dont mind…. But choclates alone tastes great… Its all abt ur apetite…
