Signiture Select 78% Dark Chocolate

                                   

About: Signature Select is a Safeway super market generic brand. It's not clear who actually makes this chocolate, though it claims a Swiss provenance. This chocolate is clearly a mass produced product, but not necessarily poorly made. The chocolate itself is very generic and not very flavorful, but the highly processed beans do result in a good texture.

Flavor:  On the good side, it's not too sweet, and, while it's a short, not-very-complex flavor profile, it's pleasant. This is the embodiment of  "there's nothing wrong with it" but.. nothing to get excited about. Melt it and use it as topping on your sundae, and you win. Expect a great chocolate experience? Not so much.

Texture:Really smooth. Actually silky and creamy for the high cocoa content.

My rating:  A 6 for no bad flavors and a good texture. 

Rating Value	Meaning
1	Really bad chocolate. There's something just really really wrong here in almost every imaginable respect.
2	A bar with this rating has at least two drawbacks.
3	A bar where something is starting to get seriously wrong.... for example, really weak flavor with an otherwise acceptable texture.
4	This bar is below average, but just slightly. Mostly it's not worth eating again. Something isn't quite up to par, for example a poor texture but fine flavor.
5	This is an average good bar that's worth eating. There's nothing really wrong with it, but also nothing particularly spectacular. Or, perhaps it has a good characteristic that's evenly counter-weighted by something weak.
6	A solidly good bar with one characteristic that's above par, for example a great texture.
7	An solidly good chocolate that has two above par characteristics, but nothing mind-blowing. Good, above average flavor, but nothing to die for.
8	An excellent bar with no weaknesses and at least one characteristic that's super.
9	An awesome bar to die for with amazing texture and flavor.
10	You have been touched by God.

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