What is the deal with Dubai chocolate all of a sudden?

[apbblue@thepit.social]

I guess I don't see much redeeming about the United Arab Emirates.

[justin@mastodon.tacoma.community]

@APBBlue
Marketing to the false amazing and exotic life in Dubai is what it appears to be to me.

[apbblue@thepit.social]

@nirak Glad it's not just me.

[deathkitten@firetribe.org]

@APBBlue@thepit.social I bought some once when it was first showing up everywhere, and uh, I don't get the obsession? It seems waaaaay overpriced for what you get.

[apbblue@thepit.social]

@justin It might be the place on earth I would least like to visit. I'd rather go to North Korea.

[count_01@mastodon.social]

@APBBlue It's beautiful country for falconry?

[queenofnewyork@newsie.social]

@APBBlue My sister liked pistachio, so she likes it. It’s a fad though. I hate fads.

[icooiey@mastodon.green]

@nirak @APBBlue I am also annoyed, irrationally.

[mle_online@social.afront.org]

@APBBlue it's annoying. you're right to be annoyed

[intransitivelie@beige.party]

@APBBlue
If it makes you feel any better, we seem to be on the tail end of the fad, based on availability and price. In a few months Hershey will come out with a Dubai chocolate KitKat and that will be that.

[jason844@mastodon.social]

@APBBlue Methinks #DubaiChocolate just the current fad item. Give it time. Something else as stupid will come along and replace it.

#Curmudgeon

[deathkitten@firetribe.org]

@intransitivelie@beige.party @APBBlue@thepit.social There's probably already one in Japan.

[fleur_de_la@mastodon.online]

@APBBlue You've a right to be annoyed. It's been hyped for a very long time (>year at least), the boom caused by TikTok (of course).

I tried some made by a good chocolatier (already forgotten who, so not *that* good), and it's tasty when done right.

BUT it seems it's now being used as a fancy name for pistachio in chocolate, no kataifi.

And it's everywhere: gas stations, 99 Ranch has a cheap Chinese one that's gross and tastes like cornflakes, Dollar Tree has waffle cone tips with pistachio.

[ebooksyearn@thepit.social]

@APBBlue i am annoyed by many things I shouldn't be, that's one of the main reasons I'm in therapy

[noplasticshower@infosec.exchange]

@APBBlue is that where all that stolen kitkat chocolate ended up?!

[elleninedmonton@yeg.bike]

@count_01 @APBBlue
And endurance equestrian.
And 7-star hotels.

[rvlara23@mastodon.social]

@APBBlue

I think I read something about this a few months ago and it sounded like a Housewives of Some City type of fad and I think it immediately fell out of my brain.

[zackstern@hachyderm.io]

@APBBlue astroturfing/marketing for Dubai

[datn@xoxo.zone]

@APBBlue that fad has already come and gone here in Berlin, and I can say that those among my friends who raved about it last year are acting a bit sheepish about it now

[samerfarha@mastodon.social]

@APBBlue it’s an interesting thing and exploded a year ago, but it’s just not for me.