What are your feelings on whether white chocolate should be considered chocolate? Should it be allowed to be sold in stores next to regular chocolate? Should white chocolate companies have the same rights to advertise as the milk chocolate companies?
Some say that chocolate is a union between cocoa beans and milk solids, and that any other combination is a perversion, and a degredation of the very foundation of what it means to be chocolate. They say that white chocolate is waxy and gross and that we shouldn't have to look at people parading around and eating it in the streets.
But you know what? It wasn't too long ago that people were saying the exact same thing about milk chocolate getting together with peanut butter. They would call it "Reeses Fever", and the ignorant of our society would smash peanut butter cups to the ground and drive them into the dirt with their boot heels. Not a pretty picture. Now, however, you can find chocolate and peanut butter hooking up all over the place, and it's generally accepted. White chocolate deserves the same rights.
Some people would say, "Why not call it 'Cocoa Butter Bar' or something and let the "chocolate" people keep their precious WORD? It's just a WORD!!" Well, my dear, simple-minded reader, words have power. From an early age, children are taught that there is nothing more pure and wonderful as waking up Easter morning, and running around their home in search of plastic eggs filled with tiny chocolate treats. Or waking up Christmas morning, and running out to find their stocking stuffed with that milky, smooth goodness. Or even waking up Halloween morning and running over to their neighbor's house loaded with bars and bars of peanut and nouget filled heaven. [I was an impatient child.]
My point is, had I rang that doorbell and only gotten a handful of "Cocoa Butter Bars", I would have thrown them right back in the face of my creepy neighbor who always dressed in bloody doctor scrubs and a gorilla mask with skeleton gloves and a cape. I mean, what the hell was he even supposed to be?!?!
Nothing is as beloved as chocolate, and technically, white chocolate goes through all the same stuff as milk chocolate, but it just doesn't have the cocoa solids re-added during the chocolate making process. In other words, it can't help how it was made, and it deserves the same rights to be sold and eaten and left for children by imaginary constructs as its milk and dark counterparts.
But don't get me started on Red Liquorice. It is NOT liquorice! NOT EVEN CLOSE!!! If you let red liquorice be called liquorice, what's next, Dog Liquorice? Heathens!