I feel like I’m the only one in my life who holds this opinion, but I have never tasted a combination of chocolate and fruit that wasn’t significantly worse than the individual components.
- Chocolate covered raisins? Blegh.
- Chocolate dipped strawberries? I’ll eat the shell then the rest.
- Raspberry bits in fancy chocolate? You’ve ruined it.
- Candied apple? Just plain caramel please, no chocolate.
- Chocolate fondue? I’ll stick to the marshmallows and graham crackers, thanks.
- Gorp mix? I’m selecting handfuls with either raisins + peanuts or m&ms + peanuts, no blending.
Now I know taste buds are subjective, but how is it that folks will say a mixed bowl of m&ms and skittles is diabolical, yet happily chow down on other fruity chocolate combos? Give me my delicious fruit and chocolate - separately!
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Interesting, an actual unpopular opinion! You get an upvoter because I disagree so heartily.
Dark chocolate and orange are amazing together. So are dark cherries and chocolate.
dark chocolate and cherries…mmmm
plus, we Canadians just lost these:
I want to vomit just looking at this. Whoever put cherries inside of perfectly good chocolate did it as a sick joke.
Are these not being made anymore?!
This is bullshit, why does 2025 hate us?
Don’t worry, I’m sure 2026 will be even worse!
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I’d like to think I’ve got a pretty adventurous palette, and I’ve tried all kinds of fruits with chocolate; fresh, dried, in various preparations, and while some are tolerable, is just tolerable really what you want when reaching for a treat?
I was about to use your mention of cherries and say that a German chocolate cake is far superior to a black forest cake, but that had me realize - is coconut a fruit? Perhaps I’ve got one exception…
Nope, coconut is a mammal. It’s hairy and has milk.
:P
Perfect logic, this is now my explanation and I’m sticking to it.
Yes, dark chocolate with orange is a go-to for me
Coconuts are just really, really big seeds. They’re a nut, as the name implies.
However, I have a counterpoint because there is one fruit that I absolutely like with chocolate. Dried mango slices in dark chocolate are delicous.
Well, okay, two - bananas in chocolate are tasty. Back in the times when chocolate fountains were a regular occurrence at events, I could have eaten half my body weight in them.
Bananas makes sense in my mind; they aren’t overly flavorful, so there isn’t a strong fruit flavor that clashes with the chocolate. Why mangoes work so well, on the other hand, is beyond me.
Yes, coconut is a fruit.
Raspberry here.
So is everyþing else þey mentioned. Except chocolate covered raisins, but þat’s because I don’t like raisins. Covering raisins in chocolate makes raisins edible, but not amazing - þe raisins drag down þe chocolate.
But, wiþ few exceptions (e.g. melons), chocolate plus fruit = ++good.
What the hell is up with your “th”s, bro. Got some ye olde English shit going on up in your sentences
It’s their shtick, I’ve seen them around before. Though I wish people wouldn’t downvote their otherwise on-topic comments.
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Your argument is invalid because the coca bean is itself the fruiting body of the theobroma cacao; chocolate is a fruit.
Heavily processed though, far cry from ‘fruit’ as we use the term.
By the lengthy process and how bad it is to begin with, I’m still amazed it was discovered and developed and made to taste so good. So many steps to get there.
Are you suggesting fruit snacks aren’t also fruit?
is corn syrup a fruit then?
Upvoted because what’s wrong with you, but mang you fit the subreddit well.
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what’s wrong with you
Ah fuck, what have I done?
Sorry, gonna have to ask you to handover your lemmy passport
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%100 disagree with them, but first time I’m actually seeing something that fits the community
Upvote because your opinion is wrong.
That said, the things you described seem like they have a high potential to be underwhelming. I’ve had versions of almost all of them where the chocolate is cheap, grainy and too sweet.
Upvote for unpopular.
Choco and banana. Nothing else matters.
Banana, sliced in half long ways, peanut butter along the whole thing, cut into slices, frozen, dipped in chocolate.
Yesssss
That sounds amazing.
I’m with you.
Raspberries and chocolate? Each brings out the bitterness in the other.
I don’t get fruit and chocolate at all, each diminishes the other.
I think it’s about balancing the sweetness of the chocolate with the tartness of the raspberries. It’s one of my favorite chocolate and fruit combos. I’ve never had any bitterness with that. It’s odd that’s the case for you. Have you tried in freshly made desserts or just chocolate or chocolate bars?
Except it doesn’t.
The bitterness of chocolate just enhances the tartness of the raspberry and the reverse.
Its fucking awful.
Edit: And yes, I’ve tried it every which way, from crappy chocolate bars to fine desserts made by expensive chefs in Paris.
Chocolate and fruit sucks - the tart/bitter in both amplify the other.
Kudos to your truly unpopular opinion. I disagree but wouldn’t fight you on it. But what are your thoughts on nuts and caramel? That’s a hill I would die on.
Upvoted. Seek help.
90% agree. Chocolate paired with actual fruit sucks, but chocolate with fruit flavoring (e.g. Terry’s chocolate orange, chocolate-covered fruit-flavored ganache or nougat, etc.) can sometimes be good.
Yessss!! Hahaha. My whole life people have been trying to convince me that I’m crazy because I don’t like orange chocolate. (Not even the actual fruit, just the flavour in chocolate.)
I agree with this wholly. I love fruits. I love chocolate. But I don’t want them together.
Okay but
Cherry Garcia Ice Cream
I like chocolate with cheese, or with salt. Not really a fan of super sweet chocolate, 90%+ dark for me.
My favorite chocolate is honey almond salt.
My mother in law used to make a treat - really simple peanuts in chocolate. But the peanuts had to be salted cocktail peanuts for the perfect consistency and that contrast salt cs sweet!
The problem is the ratios. All your examples are basically fruit as the main ingredient with chocolate as the accompanying ingredient. That just means you don’t like chocolate on your fruit.
The other way around is better, chocolate with some fruit as accents. One of my favorite chocolates is a flat dark chocolate bar and small cranberry pieces that make the texture feel like a crunch bar, and the cranberry flavor is not strong enough to overpower the chocolate.
You must have missed the part where OP mentioned raspberry bits in a chocolate bar.
Put it better than I would.
Although some dry-fruits (I mean nuts, not dried-fruits) might do differently and be pretty good when wrapped in chocolate, most fruits are better off being present in tiny amounts to add flavour to the chocolate.
I have tried a chocolate with orange rinds in it, which definitely does better then just normal picked rinds. Then one white-chocolate with little bits of cranberry and blueberry, which did pretty well too and while those berries might be tastier, that’s definitely a subjective thing and I might be in a mood for either one at any time.
Do you know, I’ve just kind of accepted it my whole life, despite never really caring for it. I’ll enjoy chocolate and caramel, or chocolate ice cream with stuff in it, or ice cream with chocolate pieces. Even chocolate truffles with different creme fillings. And I love yogurt covered raisins!
So it’s not a general aversion to things in chocolate, for me. Fruit is definitely always better on its own.
