I found this bar in a Russian food store in Oakland. The chocolate was respectable, tasting slightly better than other mass-market bars I have tasted. However the Russian writing on the label intrigued me. I asked a Russian-speaking friend with whom I work to translate the label. The large script says "Dark Chocolate," not too surprising. However the writing in the red oval apparently says "Red October" -- a reference to the 1917 Russian Revolution, and the start of the communist Soviet state.
A first for Choco Check -- communist chocolate!
The bar's ingredients include vanilla, so there is no Chocolate Check rating.
www.uniconf.ru
The bar's ingredients include vanilla, so there is no Chocolate Check rating.
www.uniconf.ru
Actually, this was not a first. Vietnam is also a Communist state, and I have done several reviews of cacao from Vietnam before this one. See this post for a summary of all of the Vietnam-origin cacao ChocoCheck has reviewed.
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