Chocolate [was Re: Python Books for 2002]

[Carlos Alberto Reis Ribeiro]

At 11:56 10/04/01 +0200, you wrote:
>During my first trip to the U.S. I experienced that eating something
>called "Lindt" had absolutely nothing to do with chocolate made by
>the swiss company Lindt.

We're way off topic anyway, but what about coffee? As a brazilian I was 
surprised by the american coffee. After all, the USA buy the *very best* 
coffee beans from Brazil and Colombia, and use it... to make that? It's 
watered coffee, decaf - so it's not coffee after all :-) We're used to 
strong coffee here (I think we're on par with the Italians). Also the 
bread... I could not find good bread in any of the places where I gone 
(there are some good, specialty bakers in my home city, so I'm used to good 
bread too :-).

For chocolate, the quality in Brazil varies widely, from the 
"chocolate-flavored" drinks to the very best (made traditionally by 
families that came from Europe at the turn of the 20th century).

p.s. If you come to Brazil, go to a *real* coffee shop, please. There are 
also *lots* of places with terrible coffee around, specially at Rio de 
Janeiro <running-for-cover>.


Carlos Ribeiro