Fat Tuesday. Who needs Bourbon Street when you have Antique Sweets?

Fat Tuesday. Who needs Bourbon Street when you have Antique Sweets?

Dark Chocolate v. Milk Chocolate

That is the question.

Honestly, it’s never been a moment’s pause for me.

Always Dark.

Even when I was young and impressionable and could eat all the Hershey Bars in Hershey, Pennsylvania.

That all changed this Valentine’s Day. I raided the assortment of chocolates we gave our big son and to my surprise — biting into a milk chocolate made the back upper part of my mouth feel like it was doing a happy dance with sparklers on the 4th of July.

Where has this been all my lonely life?

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I had to find out was it true. After all these years did milk chocolate really taste that much better?

Enter Fat Tuesday. (Today by the way.)

What better time to conduct a taste test between milk and dark chocolate than on the eve of abstaining from sweets 40 days and 40 nights — and I don’t do Sundays.

So me and the wee ones headed downtown to our favorite chocolatier Antique Sweets. 

Standing in front of the delectable sweets, Christi fixed us up a box of our choice.

We took our box of chocolate home for the test.

No. the box didn’t make it home.

I selected identical coffee truffles. One dark and one milk chocolate.

The dark one first.

It touched me in the spots that only creamy, crunchy darkened cocoa could.

Then the milk.

There in the front seat of my car parked on East Jefferson — I had a moment.

The cream milk chocolate flavor allowed for the dark, chicory coffee bite to leap right in.

It was a tie.

Bogus, I know.

I couldn’t pick one over the other.

Poo. I’m a wimp. (But a happy one.)

What about you? Milk chocolate or dark?

And where does white chocolate fit into the equation?

Guess what I want in my Easter basket.