Originally Posted by jabrams72
I'm now LHR based, so it's much easier to get it than when I was stateside
However, they are starting to allow the bars and such to be imported to the US, even though you still can't get the individual chocolates there (as the Belgians feel, probably rightly, that most Americans don't understand fine chocolate).
I'm jealous!
And it is certainly the case that most Americans don't "get" fine chocolate, so I continue to teach - share pralinés with coworkers, friends, flight attendants, gate agents. And of course if they're later caught with a Snickers, they're cut off.