Girl scout cookies (ingredients, substitute, peanut, gourmet)
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.......But the thin mints says they are dipped in a "chocolatey coating". Is that fake chocolate?
You would have to look at the list of ingredients to see if the cookies contain chocolate, cocoa, or chocolate liquor. Chocolatey coating might mean fake chocolate, but it might also mean that the coating contains chocolate but also contains a lot of other ingredients so it no longer meets the legal definition of chocolate.
Contrary to general public opinion, I don't think the scout cookies are very good and I wholeheartedly disapprove of sending little girls out door to door to sell cookies and its not fair on the parents to put them in charge of cookie sales, and it is also very annoying when the adults that I work with come around trying to get my money to pay for their kid's cookie sale, or peanut sale, or raffle ticket sale. The kids are learning nothing by this practice and I'm pretty sure the money raised doesn't even go to the troop that raises it.
The entire practice is obnoxious and I refuse to support it. Not that it has made any difference.
Interesting, The baker puts out a different ingredient list that the girl scout headquarters puts out. According to the baker, there is cocoa in the thin mints. So, chocolatey coating means they have put some chocolate in with some other ingredients so the chocolate is diluted to the point that it can't legally be called chocolate. It's probably the palm kernel oil and sugar.
Chocolaty could mean there is some form of chocolate component in the coating but not enough % to legally be labeled “chocolate.”
It might still taste adequate to you. Just don’t fool yourself into thinking it is chocolate. If it were, the manufacturers would definitely call it that, not “chocolaty coating.” With Thin Mints, oil, sweeteners, and emulsifiers probably constitute most of the “chocolaty coating.”
chocolaty (with a Y at the end) is not real chocolate.
Similar to how "melty cheese" is not the same as "melted cheese". Melty cheese exists in liquid form at room temperature and really turns me off.
There must be some legal loophole that allows marketers to add a diminutive suffix to an ingredient, that changes its definition.
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