ha ha depends where you are, over here callebaut is considered mainstream crap :) not that its bad , but its your every day ordinary chocolate , no real stuff , just the stuff you can buy in every fuckin store for one euro :)

Godiva White or Dark Choco.

anthon berg chocolate is really good :)

http://www.richart-chocolates.com/

There are quite a few good chocolatiers in New York, offshoots of shops in Paris and elsewhere in Europe. Richart is just one. (My bro lives there, and gets them for me for XMas). I think Fuchon or something is another good one but I don't recall the spelling. Godiva is great, way better than Hershey's, but it's not at the level of real gourmet chocolates. I'm not sure it's worth the price diff, but I'd try some high-end ones just to see what it's like.

lol yeah callebaut is crap indeed, they use it to cover the ola icecreams the magnum series or whatever its called outside the EU... you wont find a belgium guy who wants that

looks like the aussie ones with those prints, nice but $69 ? holy f%@ i mean why do they charge 5 times as much as gourmet belgium chocs cost here ?

I doubt the price can rationally be justified, but they do seem to worry about the cocoa bean qualities, making the chocs fresh each day and that sort of thing. I think they suggested eating them within a couple weeks or something. I don't know how much a diff it really makes, but it's good stuff. I got a sampler with wafers of chocolate made from beans grown in different parts of the world, with detailed explanations of each, but it's like wine, coffee, or beer buffs, where the stuff they're talking about is kind of meaningless to a non-obsessive palette.

You can't go wrong with German or Swiss chocolate.

Lindt - http://www.lindt.com
Milka - http://www.milka.de (I doubt you can get it anywhere in the US)
Toblerone - http://www.toblerone.com
Ferrero - http://www.ferrero.de (Not sure where you could get this in the States either)

Lindt balls are good. Not too expensive either.

nutella :thumbsup

50 classic choclates