Virtual Vacation: Chocolate Tasting

At this point, we'd not really indulged in chocolate, and it felt wrong. After all, we'd been in Hershey almost 24 hours! Cafe Zooka, which was part of the Hershey Museum complex, offered a chocolate tasting experience (for a nominal fee, of course). All we knew is that we'd be drinking warm chocolate.


Here was the setup of the tasting. We received little glasses filled with chocolate from different places, each with a different percentage of pure cacao. The little boxes gave us information about the location...and also told us the percentage of cacao.

Interesting thing about this - it wasn't like drinking hot chocolate, as I thought it would be. This was thick - like drinking a melted chocolate bar. Amber called it chocolate sludge, and that was a really good description. I had to drink water after every sip. And some of the bitter ones, I couldn't even finish.

Amber with her chocolate sludge.

This ended up serving as our dinner. LOL. After the gardens and before we got lost, we had an enormous lunch at Red Robin. Neither of us were particularly hungry, so we just let this be our dinner - and then we ate some snacks in the hotel later.