Lindt has been holding out on me

While in Munich last weekend, I wandered in to a Karstadt department store and perused the chocolate section. It really wasn’t bad (and I say this as someone who lives in Switzerland). Of course a lot of it was Swiss chocolate, like the gigantic Lindt display which contained quite the array of dark chocolate flavors. There was my new favorite cherry & chili, plus several others I had never seen before. What’s up with that, Lindt? You think the Swiss are too good for lime & green peppercorn filled 70% cocoa chocolate? Well I’m not…

Lindt wasn’t the only brand sporting the creative flavors. Everyone seems to have thrown their hat into the spicy-chocolate ring now, and ginger was also a popular accompaniment for dark chocolate. Out of curiosity we picked out a wasabi & algae bar and a chili & highland whiskey bar. That’s right, I said wasabi & algae. We like to live on the edge like that.

Turns out that wasabi & algae don’t make for as fabulous a chocolate bar as one would expect, but the chili & highland whiskey one was pretty good. The lime & green peppercorn chocolate was surprisingly endearing. I might even need to go out and find a local source. Anyone seen it?

14 thoughts on “Lindt has been holding out on me”

  1. I used to love the peanut butter filled truffles that were made by Lindt that I could find in the US. Can’t find them here though…

  2. i wish they would make those flavors but in the style of the orange chocolate, so not a creme in the middle but rather little chunks of the flavor inside the solid chocolate.
    but i will keep an eye out for the lime stuff!

  3. We got a bar of the chili and cherry, I think, for a friend of ours back in the states. He once bought a bottle of wine just b/c it had chili extracts in it. We figured he’d get a kick out of the chocolate. ; )

  4. Lindt had gone crazy with all those different flavours lately. I’m more of a plain bittersweet chocolate kind of girl so I haven’t tried any of them yet but I think I could be tempted with the chili one.

  5. I pretty much liked the chili/cherry one. I know that Coop is doing some promotion in the larger stores, but I sure didn’t see all the ones you named. Maybe they’re experimenting outside of Switzerland before taking the new tastes to their more conservative homeland.

  6. These flavors have made their way to the states however I am not a dark chocolate fan. Wish they were in milk chocolate. But then again not sure how chili and cherry would be in milk.

  7. Around here, I’ve only seen them in Loerrach, right across the border from Basel. The funny thing is those Lindt bars are made in… Germany! I wonder… maybe they aren’t in Switzerland because the Swiss refuse to import chocolate?

  8. The Lindt factory store over in Kilchburg = much fun. They have some alcohol-filled ones that they aren’t allowed to export – to the U.S. anyway. (Ironic that the U.S. has such puritanical chocolate import rules, but look at our gun laws…)

    Also, Lindt ownes Ghiradelli. Who knew?

  11. Someone recently gave me a Lindt “Hot Maracuja” Chocolate bar. I have no idea what Maracuja is (some kind of fruit – based on the label) but it is Maracuja and jalapeno.. and it ROCKS! Now I need to find a source here in the USA. Any suggestions?

  14. Kristi – I’m thinking I need to start importing it to the US! So far I haven’t heard any reports of it being available there.

    It just so happens I ate a square of it this afternoon. Mmmm. 🙂

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