I feel like I’m the only one in my life who holds this opinion, but I have never tasted a combination of chocolate and fruit that wasn’t significantly worse than the individual components.
- Chocolate covered raisins? Blegh.
- Chocolate dipped strawberries? I’ll eat the shell then the rest.
- Raspberry bits in fancy chocolate? You’ve ruined it.
- Candied apple? Just plain caramel please, no chocolate.
- Chocolate fondue? I’ll stick to the marshmallows and graham crackers, thanks.
- Gorp mix? I’m selecting handfuls with either raisins + peanuts or m&ms + peanuts, no blending.
Now I know taste buds are subjective, but how is it that folks will say a mixed bowl of m&ms and skittles is diabolical, yet happily chow down on other fruity chocolate combos? Give me my delicious fruit and chocolate - separately!
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Assuming you ferment the fruit first, yes.
dark chocolate and clementines is a nice snack, though
Upvote because your opinion is wrong.
That said, the things you described seem like they have a high potential to be underwhelming. I’ve had versions of almost all of them where the chocolate is cheap, grainy and too sweet.
Finally someone else!
I was a strong defender of this position for a long time. There is a Venn diagram with a circle of dairy in the center. It overlaps heavily with chocolate on one side and fruit on the other. But the fruit and chocolate circles should not touch.
Or so I thought. One day a friend was arguing with me about this and she pointed out a banana split, which has all three. Ok so maybe the fruit and chocolate circles barely touch for this one exception but otherwise - say no to chocolate with fruit.
The problem is the ratios. All your examples are basically fruit as the main ingredient with chocolate as the accompanying ingredient. That just means you don’t like chocolate on your fruit.
The other way around is better, chocolate with some fruit as accents. One of my favorite chocolates is a flat dark chocolate bar and small cranberry pieces that make the texture feel like a crunch bar, and the cranberry flavor is not strong enough to overpower the chocolate.
You must have missed the part where OP mentioned raspberry bits in a chocolate bar.
I agree with this one too. This and the nuts post, we’re on a roll
Upvote for unpopular.
I am genuinely amazed that you have this opinion, and also that a significant number of other comments do as well.
I cannot even begin to describe how strongly I disagree with this, but I guess there just is a whole section of people who agree…
I… I want to cook for you, make something you’ve not tried before, show you the light lol.
If you don’t mind me asking, can you taste cilantro, or does it just taste like soap to you?
Do you like nutmeg?
Yeah, you can go ahead and miss me on mixing chocolate with fruit as well as fruit with pastries.
Okay but
Cherry Garcia Ice Cream
Or do you feel about chocolate oranges, or candied orange dipped in chocolate?
I might not be able to be friends with you depending on the answer.
Your argument is invalid because the coca bean is itself the fruiting body of the theobroma cacao; chocolate is a fruit.
Heavily processed though, far cry from ‘fruit’ as we use the term.
By the lengthy process and how bad it is to begin with, I’m still amazed it was discovered and developed and made to taste so good. So many steps to get there.
Are you suggesting fruit snacks aren’t also fruit?
Interesting, an actual unpopular opinion! You get an upvoter because I disagree so heartily.
Dark chocolate and orange are amazing together. So are dark cherries and chocolate.
dark chocolate and cherries…mmmm
plus, we Canadians just lost these:
I want to vomit just looking at this. Whoever put cherries inside of perfectly good chocolate did it as a sick joke.
Are these not being made anymore?!
This is bullshit, why does 2025 hate us?
Don’t worry, I’m sure 2026 will be even worse!
I’d like to think I’ve got a pretty adventurous palette, and I’ve tried all kinds of fruits with chocolate; fresh, dried, in various preparations, and while some are tolerable, is just tolerable really what you want when reaching for a treat?
I was about to use your mention of cherries and say that a German chocolate cake is far superior to a black forest cake, but that had me realize - is coconut a fruit? Perhaps I’ve got one exception…
Nope, coconut is a mammal. It’s hairy and has milk.
:P
Perfect logic, this is now my explanation and I’m sticking to it.
Coconuts are just really, really big seeds. They’re a nut, as the name implies.
However, I have a counterpoint because there is one fruit that I absolutely like with chocolate. Dried mango slices in dark chocolate are delicous.
Well, okay, two - bananas in chocolate are tasty. Back in the times when chocolate fountains were a regular occurrence at events, I could have eaten half my body weight in them.
Bananas makes sense in my mind; they aren’t overly flavorful, so there isn’t a strong fruit flavor that clashes with the chocolate. Why mangoes work so well, on the other hand, is beyond me.
Yes, dark chocolate with orange is a go-to for me
Yes, coconut is a fruit.
Raspberry here.
So is everyþing else þey mentioned. Except chocolate covered raisins, but þat’s because I don’t like raisins. Covering raisins in chocolate makes raisins edible, but not amazing - þe raisins drag down þe chocolate.
But, wiþ few exceptions (e.g. melons), chocolate plus fruit = ++good.
What the hell is up with your “th”s, bro. Got some ye olde English shit going on up in your sentences
It’s their shtick, I’ve seen them around before. Though I wish people wouldn’t downvote their otherwise on-topic comments.
I largely agree except one: bananas.
I know it’s not truly chocolate, but still in the realm, I like to make a peanut butter, Nutella, and banana sandwich sometimes.
I agree with all of your examples but what about bananas and chocolate? I think the less “fruity” and more heavy taste of bananas goes quite well with chocolate.
