random poll

[ratcreature]

Most people think chocolate and nuts go well together, but which nut do you think fits chocolate best? (Today when I decided to buy some chocolate with nuts I dithered for minutes in front of the shelf over whether I ought to go with hazelnut or almond chocolate this time.)

I realize radio buttons make this hard when like me you like many nuts in chocolate, but you'll just have to pick a favorite. (Feel free to imagine the chocolate however you like it to best compliment the nuts, i.e. if you like for example hazelnuts best in milk chocolate but almonds in dark chocolate, imagine the combination you like better and then pick the kind of nut in the poll.)

Poll #6193 chocolate & nuts

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 51

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Which nut do you like best with chocolate?

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None: Who would contaminate tasty chocolate with any nut?? (or nuts with chocolate)
5 (9.8%)

Hazelnuts
21 (41.2%)

Almonds
16 (31.4%)

Walnuts
1 (2.0%)

Pecans
2 (3.9%)

Macadamia
2 (3.9%)

Cashew
2 (3.9%)

Brazil nuts
0 (0.0%)

Pistachios
0 (0.0%)

Peanuts (counted as "nut" for the purposes of this poll despite being an undercover legume)
2 (3.9%)

some other nut you have forgotten
0 (0.0%)

Comments

[herlander_refugee]

I can't actually eat any tree nuts any more due to allergies, but my former favorite was how I voted!

[omens]

i was really temped to choose macadamia, but that is not an everyday treat ;)

[kiratael]

I chose hazelnuts because it's the only nut I can stand besides cashews and chocolate is what makes it work. I have never had/seen cashews and chocolate combined - time to experiment/explore!

[sanj]

My very favorites are Green & Black's chocolate with almonds, and Trader Joes' chocolate-covered almonds with sea salt, so almonds are ahead of peanuts, pecans, and hazelnuts by just a titch.

But mmmm. Chocolate with nuts may be my favorite way to eat both foods. :)

[reginagiraffe]

I said cashews, but hazelnuts or almonds would be equally acceptable.

[busaikko]

In Japan, almonds are the most common nut in sweets; in the US peanuts are, I think. The chocolate used for American peanut candy is *incredibly* (mostly intolerably) sweet (Mr Goodbar, Reese's Peanut Butter Cups). So I prefer almonds, which in Japan are usually in more 'elegant' chocolates and a more adult taste *g* (Macadamia chocolates are also sold here, but macadamia nuts are kind of... weird *no accounting for taste*)

[some_stars]

I seriously could not ever decide. Milk chocolate and hazelnuts, dark chocolate and almonds, chocolate fudge with walnuts...they are all ESSENTIAL TO MY SURVIVAL. All of them.

[laurajv]

answering this poll took consulting my husband and arguing the merits of various chocolate-nut combos for several minutes, after which we agreed that Cote d'Or "Noir Noisettes" is the best chocolate-nut combination on the entire planet, and therefore the answer had to be "hazelnut".

(The runner-up was "almond", by the by; nothing else was even in the running.)

[lilacsigil]

I chose hazelnut only because it was the most recent that I have eaten. But if anyone wants to send me other kinds in an attempt to switch my vote, I would be very happy!

Easy!

[tazlet]

Trader's Joe's (our 'officially' Second Best Grocery store chain) sells a 30% hazelnut/milk chocolate bar, which is to die for.