Thread 21398827

What are your thoughts on the humble UAE candy?

Stop with this forced bullshit jfc

>>21398827 (OP)
looks nasty but I'll try anything once.

>>21398827 (OP)
I don't get it. It's just milk chocolate with a pistaccio créme isn't it? I don't see how that's special.

>>21398835
It embodies the Emirati reputation of excellence

>>21398846
ah yes, the sight of the shit-trains leaving the city because they don't have a working sewer system reeks of excellence.

>>21398827 (OP)
Its honestly not bad - too dense for my liking though... and its hard to keep an open mind and not immediately dismiss it as another arm of the UAE's soulless corporate ambitions.

I've also had it in dessert pancake format and it really makes you feel dry with that kind of filling. That being said, who doesn't like chocolate and pistachio?

>>21398835
Its not that it's special. However it has never been and yet to become a 'gas station' candy bar. Its prior inaccessibility to the states combined with social media buzz marketing has made it popular. It tastes pretty good as any chocolate with pistachi creme would. I prefer the white chocolate variety bc it's better and usually cheaper

>>21398827 (OP)
not gonna buy that nasty terrorist slop

>>21398827 (OP)
Throw out the hummus and it might be good

>>21398827 (OP)
Its actually pretty good, pistachio cream/butter is a slept-on ingredient and those fried pastry strip thingies inside add a lovely crunch. It's jusy simply not worth it.
I bought a tub of pistachio butter a few years ago and wanted to buy another one recently but it has more than doubled in price, that's gay af

i find it weird how every cute female food-tuber i know is shilling it...

Isn't this like old news?
As far as I know the market already has imploded too or is that only in Europe and Americans are only getting aware of this pistachio slop now?

I don't really care about the food per se but it perplexes me to see NEETs who have never been abroad crying about human rights in the UAE, which they wouldn't even be able to find on a map

The whole thing seems like an astroturf campaign to distract from the fact that the US is spending billions to commit genocide in gaza and you can't even enter the US now unless you swear an oath that you've never said a bad word about the IDF and netanyahu

They don't even ask your opinion on the US, they just ask if you love israel. I wish I was making this up

>>21398827 (OP)
Overpriced take on chocolate with pistachios which the Saudis forced as a meme for slop loving normalfags

>>21399024
politics is for faggots full stop

>>21398827 (OP)
Looks like it's stuffed with actual shit. I know it's not, granted, but that's my first instinct

>>21398827 (OP)
>humble UAE candy?
It's not.
Pistachios are all across the Mediterranean too. I'd say from Italy to Greece is mostly how I think of them. Even Isreal. UAE would be dead last, which really only feels like a manufatured city, airport and faux tourist destination. Is there even any historical value or culture there? Nah. I have a jar of spreadable pistachio for toast from Italy in my fridge right now, and it's Italian. It's from travel, and it's really only a mood for small doses. It's better with cakes and pastries, and in gelato, than with chocolate though.

>>21399087
What was going through your mind when you wrote that? Do people think they're going to be seen as the next ibn battuta/marco polo/zheng he for announcing like spergs that dubai is mostly malls, offices, and hotels and doesn't resemble ancient kyoto? How is that interesting to say or to hear? Do you expect everyone to go "whoa, this guy is really well traveled" because you said something controversial or deeply insightful?

>>21398827 (OP)
it looks so nasty it must be pretty good. i like pistachios, top 3-4 nut. chocolate is eh, fine whatever.

>>21399087
>>21399174
NTA but I found his post relatable to my own views on that chocolate bar. It feels like a forced tiktok meme in a bar, not like an actual cultural product.

>>21398827 (OP)
>OH MY SCIENCE IS THAT THE CURRENT THING
>I LOVE THE CURRENT THING

>>21399201
Bruh. Dubai doesn't have much in the way of "cultural products", at all. Chocolate is not native to the middle east and the middle east in general has no recent history of chocolate desserts like they have in western europe. What were you expecting?

You're not technically wrong and in this age of jews supporting nazis and bug chasers being put in charge of the health of what was once a major world superpower I guess it's good that zoomies have maintained a tenuous strand of grounding with reality, maybe I should just remind myself that I spend 10+ hours a week arguing with actual children on the internet and this reflects worse on me than it does on them

>>21399209
>Bruh. Dubai doesn't have much in the way of "cultural products", at all
Exactly my point.
>What were you expecting?
I mean, at least they could have some meme date candy or something and I would find it more believable. In any case, it's not so much the ingredients I find off putting as much as the obvious forced advertising akin to, again, a forced meme.

>>21399210
You say you agree with me but I still don't get where you're coming from here. What do you mean by "believable"? Like you'd more easily believe that it was produced in a recently built city with skyscrapers and a monorail and some expensive hotels, compared to chocolate which has to be made by aztecs?

>>21398827 (OP)
Why are they filled with shredded up sponges dipped in pistachio cream?

>>21398827 (OP)
Looks like cowdung.

>>21398827 (OP)
That seems like the least "humble" food ever.

You don't even know what that word means, you're just prefacing every food item with it to piss everyone off.

What's next? The "humble" chateaubriand?
You stupid faggot.

>>21398827 (OP)
meme

>>21398827 (OP)
I watched Ghost Protocol, UAE can't even produce sticky windows to support manlets, I'm not going to trust them to make weird garbage compost terrorist chocolate.

>>21398827 (OP)
Having lived in that part of the world, I can tell you that Arabs actually have really good taste in candy. A little too good, actually. They all have terrible sweet tooths, which probably explains the ridiculous rates of obesity and diabetes over there.

they wanted to kill the original meaning of "dubai chocolate"

>>21398827 (OP)
is there a decent one I can order online? never seen it in stores. I like pistachio

>>21398827 (OP)
Care for a Wonka's Edible Garden?

>>21398852
They built Dubai without a working sewer? wtf

>saw this 30 dollar candy bar on the counter at a gas station
>there's two of them, one on each side of the counter
>both of them have a little sign placed directly on top of them that says "We accept EBT"
Jesus Christ

>>21399551
Amusingly, since shit is ultra-haram, no gulf muzzie wants to be the sewerworks guy. Not even in a designer engineer role.

On-topic, the chocolate is nice, but overpriced. The crispy noodles add a satisfying crunch to the filling.

>>21398827 (OP)
Every single dessert joint where I live is now offering some kind of Dubai chocolate flavor. Yet I never come across anyone talking about it and I’ve certainly never seen anyone actually eating it. Even in my social media feeds that are pretty much all food content, rarely do I ever see Dubai chocolate mentioned. Are people really going crazy for this shit or is this some kind of Dubai psyop??

i'll never eat food from or visit a country thats
>muslim
>communist
>indian
its only red meats, pasta and ramen for this goy

>>21398881
>'gas station' candy bar
They sell them at 7-Eleven now, so it quite literally is.

>>21399607
i think they realized there was a market for the "bacon" meme to return for the muzzies that missed out, now they feel special they can join in on food trends

>>21398827 (OP)
The only filling acceptable for chocolate are almonds and marzipan
t. Swiss

dubai give me 200usd and ill shill your shitty chocolate too

I want a seriously explanation of this filling

>>21399607
It’s literally a shill campaign. Very obviously not an organic trend.

>>21399024
Imagine being as schizo as the average poltard but then being leftwing

>>21398827 (OP)
This was last year

>>21398881
The only place I can find these are in gas stations. To me, these are the very definition of gas station candy bars.

>>21399761
Pistachio cream with chunks.
Looks like baby's diarrhea but is probably pretty delicious.
But not worth the inflated price asked for it through this obviously forced "trend".
Pistachio filling was a known (but relatively rare) filling already before the whole Dubai crap.

>>21399921
Thats retarded. Gas station candy bars are recess, snickers, Twix, 100 grand and all cost below $5 while nearly all Dubai chocolate bars cost newrly $20. Awful take on your part

Why don't they offer more flavors?

>>21399279
https://warosu.org/ck/thread/21378968#p21385614
https://warosu.org/ck/thread/21240016#p21244332
https://warosu.org/ck/thread/21226883#p21227276
https://warosu.org/ck/thread/21170097#p21170717
>the shitpost used a word incorrectly
who the hell cares

>>21398835
>It's just milk chocolate with a pistaccio créme isn't it?
You're forgetting kadayif, the main ingredient which makes it stand out

>>21399598
>crispy noodles
What the fuck.

>>21400497
You don't get it anon, paying $20 for it is part of the experience.

>>21399174
>if this order is taking place in the ghetto several black people go damn
Kek

>>21398827 (OP)
Haven’t tried them yet cuz of how stupid expensive they are everywhere and the cheap ones Trader Joe’s came out with are being sold out everywhere

>>21398830
>looks nasty
It's just some kind of pistachio mixture.

>>21400712
Clearly we do. Keep on sleuthing to prove your point wrong.

>>21399598
>shit is ultra-haram
Why do they wipe their asses with their hands then

>>21400924
It's wet looking and it has sticks poking out. It's also nearly exploding out of the chocolate. Why? When you break it open it forces itself out like it's pressurized? Why is it splayed and splintered out beyond the edges?

It just looks unnatural and gross. The brightness, the sheen, the color. I don't see who's finding it appetizing. Looks like overcooked braised asparagus and broccoli which has been mashed with splinters of wood and stuffed into shitty chocolate boxes.

>>21400733
It makes it stand out, sure, but it isn't good

>>21398827 (OP)
looks like diarrhea, tastes like pistacio, crunch is fantastic, chocolate is there too. I like the crunch, but it's nothing special and has room for improvement.

>>21398827 (OP)
Why is it called UAE candy when neither of the ingredients come from the UAE?
Am I expected to believe that some lazy towelhead just pulled the recipe out of his ass one day while he was playing with his pet tiger?
Or is the more likely explanation that they just claimed it as their own after their abused Indian slave plopped it on a silver tray in front of them in a desperate attempt to escape that afternoon's mandatory whipping/attempted murdering?

>>21399921
>>21400497
My local Cumberland Farms sells them now.

>>21398827 (OP)
Can't be bought for less than $3/oz. I don't want to try it that badly.

>>21400934
>When you break it open it forces itself out like it's pressurized?
Some of it got pulled out, because it's a semi-liquid with surface tension.
>The brightness, the sheen, the color
Those could all be influenced by the camera. To me, knowing it's just chocolate filled with pistachio and shredded filo (a kind of Eastern pastry dough), it looks tasty as fuck and I want it right now.

>>21401076
Dubai popularized it, so now normalfag white women who watch tiktok think it's sone fancy high class treat

>>21398827 (OP)
Taste would be alright, but it's still overpriced as fuck.

Fun fact:Since they had a court order in the EU that it has to come from the UAE if it has Dubai in its name, there were several cases where tests had shown the stuff wasn't fit for human consumption. It adds an extra layer of irony that this was caused by traces of mineral oil in the product.

On the other hand, I can get pistachio croissants at every bakery now, for a more reasonable price. So that's nice.

>>21398827 (OP)
>humble

>>21398827 (OP)
looks like gorilla shit, but id eat it

>>21398827 (OP)
>Stay out of influencer universe because hate the idea
>Never hear of Dubai Chocolate until people on 4chan started bitching about how it's everywhere
>Suddenly every shitty tourist trap chocolate shop in the city "WE HAVE INFLUENCER DUBAI CHOCOLATE!!!"
>Arab nut shop has inflatable Dubai Chocolate by May
I hate what memes have become. I miss when we had humble memes about Milhouse.

>>21401628
Millhouse is not a meme.

>>21398835
It's crème. Get your accents right.

>>21401631
crâm

>>21399607
Is this AI?

>>21398827 (OP)
dubai meme thread #192

>>21398827 (OP)
I just tried it and I certify it as yummy

>Why aren't you paying retarded amounts of money for Arab garbage
Because it sucks