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Fun to watch - thanks for sharing! Can not wait until our first trip to Switzerland in 2023. Definitely taking your recommendations to heart as we plan our trip.
We’re so glad you enjoyed watching! Hopefully it preps you to enjoy the best Swiss chocolate for your trip next year 😊🍫 And we truly hope our resources (on RUclips and our website) help you plan an incredible vacation!!
Absolutely…your videos have been extremely helpful in our planning. Thank you so much for all the work you do in posting such excellent & useful content!
@Mark Lane my wife and I met with Jana and Brett a couple weeks ago for a "mini consult". Well worth it to confirm your itinerary is solid and Im sure they can add some things to it that you weren't aware of. 😀
Thank you for this breakdown on the most important food in Switzerland! We concur that Swiss milk chocolate amazingly has caramely and nutty undertones, which makes it so enjoyable (and I am a dark chocolate lover who is adamantly opposed to milk chocolate under all other circumstances). I think it is noteworthy that the Lindt chocolate that is sold here in the US is actually produced here in the US, which means that it is not made with Swiss milk-this is a very important aspect of the flavor of Swiss milk chocolate! So if you are trying to find that flavor, make sure you check the label to see where the product is produced. Just another reason to go back to Switzerland ASAP! Merry Christmas, Aplins! Thanks for another great video!!
That’s such a good thing to note about Lindt chocolate being produced in Switzerland vs elsewhere-thanks for the tip! Because we agree that the Swiss milk makes a dramatic difference in the flavor! Mmm those nutty, caramel undertones are delicious! 😋 And merry Christmas to you too!
My sister and I just got back from a short trip to Switzerland. We wanted to hoard Lindt chocolates to bring back to our country but thank goodness we tried more of the local brands from the supermarket. It was cheap but OMG!! it was the best dark chocolates ever! Yes, we only prefer eating dark chocolates. I would definitely go back to Switzerland not just because of the amazing beautiful place but for the chocolates as well!!!
🤣 We love that you wanted to hoard the chocolate! Is now a good time to tell you that we brought home 15 bars (mainly the ones we sampled in this video)?!? 🍫 We hope you get to go back to Switzerland again - for the chocolate and the beauty as well 😊
Uge fan of Lauderach and almost out of my sheet of millk chocolate hazelnut from Zurich but my new favorite is Sprungli. Just wow, their individual chocolate pieces are the best like the Praline Brownie and the Praline Korbli. Insanely good, best ever!
Hahaha! This was great fun. I could generally tell you which brands you were tasting just by your description, though Cailler is pretty much our favorite brand for milk. I tend not to buy Lindt while in Switzerland as it's the one brand we can find easily in the US. Frey is always a winner for us, that brand is found at Migros stores, while Coop carries Cailler and Halba. When you go with the mix in flavors Halba is now the only brand I've found that does an orange/dark chocolate mix. It's been interesting to note how the mix in flavors over the years have changed in popularity. When I was a teen, dark with raspberry filling was always my favorite that my aunt would bring to me but that's no longer an option. Frey had a great milk with coffee filling but that's gone by the wayside, too. Once, in the interest of science of course, I brought home a Lindt milk chocolate with pistachio filling and bought the same at my local grocer in the US for a side by side taste comparison. I didn't note a great difference in the particular flavor but there was an overall freshness to the Swiss purchased bar and the texture was definitely better. I've not purchased the Laderach pre-packaged, just ordered small pieces of bark at the store. It's great, but pricey! One brand found in the French sections of Switzerland is Villars which I find to be economical & tasty.
Wow that’s incredible that you could tell which brand we were sampling just by our feedback-you’re a Swiss chocolate pro! 😉 Thanks for your suggestion about Villars so we know what to buy next year when we go back to the French-speaking regions. 🍫And what a fun idea to do a side by side tasting of your favorite flavors in different brands. How fun!! 🤩
@@AplinsintheAlps If you're going to the Jura region may I recommend Murten, Avenches, St. Ursanne, and this delightful little town called Orbe. It's a bit out of the way, but is really pretty and the people were super friendly. Merry Christmas!
Thanks Jenny! As you know, we like to make everything a fun experience, especially when it comes to food🤩 And good choice on the Lindt chocolate advent calendar, that’s a brilliant idea! (We normally stuff our advent calendar with Aldi chocolate because it’s the only kind small enough to fit in the boxes🤣)
Didn't have much time to go there when I had a stopover in Zurich while Interrailing two months ago, so I'm glad I found more than enough choices in the Coop just outside the Hauptbahnhof!
I'm Swiss...and I know all the chocolates in your video plus about one hundred other Swiss chocolates! For me Lindt is the number 1. Lindt has dozens of different kinds of chocolate and I love them all! But my personal number 1 is Lindt: Intense Orange!.. and Camille Bloch: Mousse chocolate! You should try them! 😋
Wow you’re like a Swiss chocolate expert! It’s fun to try all of the different brands and flavors. We’ve heard that the Lindt Intense Orange is a popular choice so we will have to try it. Thanks for the suggestion!!
Great comedy - I thoroughly enjoyed this video and had to smile a lot. I prefer dark chocolate and stay away from milk chocolate whenever possible. Lindt is great, Frey is also good and you can get both here in Australia. When in Switzerland I am more partial to ones not available here like Ragusa, Torino, Sprüngli :) I stay away from Läderach, too expensive and not that great to justify the price.
Aww we’re so glad that we made you smile!! 😊 That’s neat you can get some Swiss chocolate brands in Australia! Are they made in Switzerland and imported, or just made in Australia! Another viewer commented that the Lindt Chocolate made in the USA doesn’t use Swiss milk so it tasted different. Also, we really love Ragusa as well, yum!
@@AplinsintheAlps Lindt has a big factory in the Sydney area - so they are made locally. The key factor to good chocolate is the conching time. From a talk I attended here in Melbourne, I vaguely remember that Lindt conches 72 hours (dark chocolate) while most other chocolate brands go for less than 24 hours (so they can make at least one batch per day per machine). Felchlin is the top brand of chocolate in the world (also Swiss) - it is the brand professionals confiseurs use as the base for their products - they are not a retail brand unfortunately.
Darnit. In US here and plenty of lindt, and recently found laderach. Laderach is really good and wanted to find a different in swizterland. Gonna have to taste test when i get there.
I am definitely tired of Lindt as this is all we can get here in Canada. Migros chocolate and Frey is all I want when I am back in 🇨🇭. I comment here before I watched this video, lol...
Love that you already know which brands are your favorite! Were you surprised by our rankings for Migros and Frey? We were -especially for milk chocolate! 🍫
I have to watch this old video of yours for my upcoming trip. My coworkers already asked to bring home Swiss chocolates & I have no idea what to get. I'm not a chocolate person😂 Thank you for this!
I think Migros M-Budjet is not really comparable in a fair way with other brands. M-Budjet is budget-price product line of Migros that is much cheaper than other brands. Frey is also a house brand of Migros, but in a more standard price range.
Surely if you lived in Interlaken you went to Vanini chocolate. I can't believe you didn't mention them. Their lemon chocolate is amazing. We put them as our second favorite after Laterrack.
You missed out Villars (another premium brand like Laederach, but sold in supermarkets) and Prix Garantie (Coop's equivalent to Migros M-Budget), as both of these would've been excellent additions to the comparison. I especially need to know how Coop Prix Garantie compares with Migros M-Budget; that is the competition I really want to see. Having been on a daytrip to Zurich last month from the UK, I tried a handful of these chocolates and definitely agree that Migros M-Budget, while technically being the cheapest Swiss chocolate money can buy, was very underwhelming. It's no surprise that it's too sweet and sugary, because it has A LOT more sugar than the average 100g milk chocolate bar; we're talking 60g compared to the usual 40-50g. However, they are perfect as gifts for my relatives in Bangladesh, as I could easily buy loads of them and they're still Swiss chocolate from Switzerland at the end of the day, as far as my relatives concerned. Frey was a noticeably better quality version of M-Budget (they're packaged the same and have similar bar patterns both being by Migros), but still nothing too special (their Pralinor bars are really something though), so Cailler is certainly much more worthwhile for the money. Villars is even more solid, but considerably more expensive at the same time. My favourite, however, had to be the Camille Bloch Ragusa; wish I bought more of that, cos it was impeccable!
Someone please bring the Oscar for this couple 🤭😹 Im loving your videos, it’s really helping me for my trip to Switzerland next month , I’m super anxious 🗻🥰
Thank you so much for this amazing video. I really enjoyed and learned a lot ❤ Could you please tell me what are your favorite swiss cheese? I wanna try and either of you answer is ok for me 😂
We should make a Swiss cheese video too! We really enjoy most aged mountain cheeses, particularly from Engadine. But we’re fans of goat cheese too. We try a different cheese every week to expand our palates of Swiss cheese!
Sure! I would be the first one who would like the video ahaha. Nice! I should do this strategy as well and looking forward to that video!@@AplinsintheAlps
Great question! We decided to leave it off the list for this one, mostly because it would have been obvious which one we were tasting due to its shape!!
Toblerone is owned by the US company Mondelēz since 1990. As of 2022 they are not allowed to call theselves "Swiss Chocolate" anymore since the do not produce in switzerland.
@@JackFate76 yeah, they're made in Slovakia now AFAIK along with another Mondelez-owned brand with Swiss heritage called Milka, the latter also is produced in Germany just outside the Swiss border.
I love reading all of your comments on our video - it's fun to see you binging all of our content :) And yep, how can we complain about Swiss chocolate?!? (You're gonna do a tasting on your next trip here too, right?!!)
Are you drooling yet?!🤤READ our blog for bonus facts about Swiss chocolate! (Like how the Swiss eat THIS much chocolate per year…wow!)
aplinsinthealps.com/the-best-swiss-chocolate-to-buy-on-your-switzerland-vacation/
Very fun, guys! Loved it.
Thank you! We’re glad you enjoyed watching. We hope you get to enjoy some of this chocolate in Switzerland too! 🍫
Ahh! Love the way your taste tests ranking works! Please do more of such videos! Also, Lindt chocolate all the way!
Awesome, thanks for the suggestion! We’re glad you enjoyed this blind taste test 😊 We might have to try this with Swiss cheese too 🧀
Fun to watch - thanks for sharing! Can not wait until our first trip to Switzerland in 2023. Definitely taking your recommendations to heart as we plan our trip.
We’re so glad you enjoyed watching! Hopefully it preps you to enjoy the best Swiss chocolate for your trip next year 😊🍫 And we truly hope our resources (on RUclips and our website) help you plan an incredible vacation!!
Absolutely…your videos have been extremely helpful in our planning. Thank you so much for all the work you do in posting such excellent & useful content!
@Mark Lane my wife and I met with Jana and Brett a couple weeks ago for a "mini consult". Well worth it to confirm your itinerary is solid and Im sure they can add some things to it that you weren't aware of. 😀
@@brianashley6073 you’re so kind! It was so fun to meet you and help you plan your trip!! 😊We’d love to keep doing that for more travelers!
Thank you for this breakdown on the most important food in Switzerland! We concur that Swiss milk chocolate amazingly has caramely and nutty undertones, which makes it so enjoyable (and I am a dark chocolate lover who is adamantly opposed to milk chocolate under all other circumstances). I think it is noteworthy that the Lindt chocolate that is sold here in the US is actually produced here in the US, which means that it is not made with Swiss milk-this is a very important aspect of the flavor of Swiss milk chocolate! So if you are trying to find that flavor, make sure you check the label to see where the product is produced. Just another reason to go back to Switzerland ASAP! Merry Christmas, Aplins! Thanks for another great video!!
That’s such a good thing to note about Lindt chocolate being produced in Switzerland vs elsewhere-thanks for the tip! Because we agree that the Swiss milk makes a dramatic difference in the flavor! Mmm those nutty, caramel undertones are delicious! 😋 And merry Christmas to you too!
I really enjoyed that!! Please continue making taste tests 😊😊
Awesome, thanks for letting us know! That’s encouraging and helpful 😊
My sister and I just got back from a short trip to Switzerland. We wanted to hoard Lindt chocolates to bring back to our country but thank goodness we tried more of the local brands from the supermarket. It was cheap but OMG!! it was the best dark chocolates ever! Yes, we only prefer eating dark chocolates. I would definitely go back to Switzerland not just because of the amazing beautiful place but for the chocolates as well!!!
🤣 We love that you wanted to hoard the chocolate! Is now a good time to tell you that we brought home 15 bars (mainly the ones we sampled in this video)?!? 🍫 We hope you get to go back to Switzerland again - for the chocolate and the beauty as well 😊
@@AplinsintheAlps
Your vlog has helped me and my sister a lot our trip rome and switzerland trip. Yes, we wil definitely be back hopefully next year.
From were I could get local swiss dark chocolates
Uge fan of Lauderach and almost out of my sheet of millk chocolate hazelnut from Zurich but my new favorite is Sprungli. Just wow, their individual chocolate pieces are the best like the Praline Brownie and the Praline Korbli. Insanely good, best ever!
Hahaha! This was great fun. I could generally tell you which brands you were tasting just by your description, though Cailler is pretty much our favorite brand for milk. I tend not to buy Lindt while in Switzerland as it's the one brand we can find easily in the US. Frey is always a winner for us, that brand is found at Migros stores, while Coop carries Cailler and Halba. When you go with the mix in flavors Halba is now the only brand I've found that does an orange/dark chocolate mix. It's been interesting to note how the mix in flavors over the years have changed in popularity. When I was a teen, dark with raspberry filling was always my favorite that my aunt would bring to me but that's no longer an option. Frey had a great milk with coffee filling but that's gone by the wayside, too. Once, in the interest of science of course, I brought home a Lindt milk chocolate with pistachio filling and bought the same at my local grocer in the US for a side by side taste comparison. I didn't note a great difference in the particular flavor but there was an overall freshness to the Swiss purchased bar and the texture was definitely better. I've not purchased the Laderach pre-packaged, just ordered small pieces of bark at the store. It's great, but pricey! One brand found in the French sections of Switzerland is Villars which I find to be economical & tasty.
Wow that’s incredible that you could tell which brand we were sampling just by our feedback-you’re a Swiss chocolate pro! 😉 Thanks for your suggestion about Villars so we know what to buy next year when we go back to the French-speaking regions. 🍫And what a fun idea to do a side by side tasting of your favorite flavors in different brands. How fun!! 🤩
@@AplinsintheAlps If you're going to the Jura region may I recommend Murten, Avenches, St. Ursanne, and this delightful little town called Orbe. It's a bit out of the way, but is really pretty and the people were super friendly. Merry Christmas!
Thanks for the video! I’m going to Switzerland and I’ll try all of them. 😋😋😋
You're welcome! You'll have to let us know which is your favorite!
Sure!@@AplinsintheAlps
Oh. Sooo fun! Thanks for sharing!
So glad you had fun watching! We hope you get to taste some of these too 😋
😂 This was brilliant! Loved the style and humour. I had a Lindt advent calendar, it was delicious! 😋
Thanks Jenny! As you know, we like to make everything a fun experience, especially when it comes to food🤩 And good choice on the Lindt chocolate advent calendar, that’s a brilliant idea! (We normally stuff our advent calendar with Aldi chocolate because it’s the only kind small enough to fit in the boxes🤣)
Touring the Lindt factory in Zurich is on the itinerary, but plan to try as many brands as possible while in Switzerland 🇨🇭
Definitely shop at the grocery store if you want to try some of the most popular brands! And of course, enjoy all of the chocolate 🍫🙂
Didn't have much time to go there when I had a stopover in Zurich while Interrailing two months ago, so I'm glad I found more than enough choices in the Coop just outside the Hauptbahnhof!
I'm Swiss...and I know all the chocolates in your video plus about one hundred other Swiss chocolates! For me Lindt is the number 1. Lindt has dozens of different kinds of chocolate and I love them all! But my personal number 1 is Lindt: Intense Orange!.. and Camille Bloch: Mousse chocolate! You should try them! 😋
Wow you’re like a Swiss chocolate expert! It’s fun to try all of the different brands and flavors. We’ve heard that the Lindt Intense Orange is a popular choice so we will have to try it. Thanks for the suggestion!!
What about Hershey's? 😉
Did you know that like most of lindt chocolates, orange intense is not even made in Switzerland but in the south of France... 🙄
@@adriengp1941Exactly in the other mountainous region of Pyrénées!
@@adriengp1941please go buy yourself a house
Have you guys tried Favarger? I loved their milk chocolate ❤
Great comedy - I thoroughly enjoyed this video and had to smile a lot. I prefer dark chocolate and stay away from milk chocolate whenever possible. Lindt is great, Frey is also good and you can get both here in Australia. When in Switzerland I am more partial to ones not available here like Ragusa, Torino, Sprüngli :)
I stay away from Läderach, too expensive and not that great to justify the price.
Aww we’re so glad that we made you smile!! 😊 That’s neat you can get some Swiss chocolate brands in Australia! Are they made in Switzerland and imported, or just made in Australia! Another viewer commented that the Lindt Chocolate made in the USA doesn’t use Swiss milk so it tasted different. Also, we really love Ragusa as well, yum!
@@AplinsintheAlps Lindt has a big factory in the Sydney area - so they are made locally. The key factor to good chocolate is the conching time. From a talk I attended here in Melbourne, I vaguely remember that Lindt conches 72 hours (dark chocolate) while most other chocolate brands go for less than 24 hours (so they can make at least one batch per day per machine). Felchlin is the top brand of chocolate in the world (also Swiss) - it is the brand professionals confiseurs use as the base for their products - they are not a retail brand unfortunately.
Thanks, very important research, however I may have to verify for myself!
Ha! Yes...definitely check it out for yourself:)
Cailler is deffo my favourite but unfortunately we can't get it in Ireland so have to order online & for me Switzerland are the artists of chocolate!
We agree.....no other chocolate can really compare!
@@AplinsintheAlps 100%. Love to you both guys great video!
Darnit. In US here and plenty of lindt, and recently found laderach. Laderach is really good and wanted to find a different in swizterland. Gonna have to taste test when i get there.
I am definitely tired of Lindt as this is all we can get here in Canada. Migros chocolate and Frey is all I want when I am back in 🇨🇭. I comment here before I watched this video, lol...
Love that you already know which brands are your favorite! Were you surprised by our rankings for Migros and Frey? We were -especially for milk chocolate! 🍫
I have to watch this old video of yours for my upcoming trip. My coworkers already asked to bring home Swiss chocolates & I have no idea what to get. I'm not a chocolate person😂 Thank you for this!
Maybe you can bring a variety and host a chocolate tasting for them too!! :)
I think Migros M-Budjet is not really comparable in a fair way with other brands. M-Budjet is budget-price product line of Migros that is much cheaper than other brands. Frey is also a house brand of Migros, but in a more standard price range.
We aimed for a variety of brands and qualities and prices, from store brands to luxury!
Surely if you lived in Interlaken you went to Vanini chocolate. I can't believe you didn't mention them. Their lemon chocolate is amazing. We put them as our second favorite after Laterrack.
do you have any videos going paragliding in interlaken? any advice? thanks!
You missed out Villars (another premium brand like Laederach, but sold in supermarkets) and Prix Garantie (Coop's equivalent to Migros M-Budget), as both of these would've been excellent additions to the comparison. I especially need to know how Coop Prix Garantie compares with Migros M-Budget; that is the competition I really want to see.
Having been on a daytrip to Zurich last month from the UK, I tried a handful of these chocolates and definitely agree that Migros M-Budget, while technically being the cheapest Swiss chocolate money can buy, was very underwhelming. It's no surprise that it's too sweet and sugary, because it has A LOT more sugar than the average 100g milk chocolate bar; we're talking 60g compared to the usual 40-50g. However, they are perfect as gifts for my relatives in Bangladesh, as I could easily buy loads of them and they're still Swiss chocolate from Switzerland at the end of the day, as far as my relatives concerned.
Frey was a noticeably better quality version of M-Budget (they're packaged the same and have similar bar patterns both being by Migros), but still nothing too special (their Pralinor bars are really something though), so Cailler is certainly much more worthwhile for the money. Villars is even more solid, but considerably more expensive at the same time. My favourite, however, had to be the Camille Bloch Ragusa; wish I bought more of that, cos it was impeccable!
i love cailler frigor noir
Someone please bring the Oscar for this couple 🤭😹
Im loving your videos, it’s really helping me for my trip to Switzerland next month , I’m super anxious 🗻🥰
I wouldn't say we're Oscar worthy 😂 but thanks for the compliment! So glad our videos have been helpful. Hope you have a wonderful trip!
Thank you
Hahahaha... this is sooo cute hahaha.. i should try this with my friends hahaha
I bet your friends wouldn’t mind this kind of game! 🍫😋
In Switzerland now, trying to buy all the chocolates 🍫😂 love Laderach
🤣 Visit both Migros and Coop to find a variety of brands. And definitely enjoy alllll the Swiss chocolate 😋🍫
@@AplinsintheAlps will only buy more when I'm heading back XD
Thank you so much for this amazing video. I really enjoyed and learned a lot ❤ Could you please tell me what are your favorite swiss cheese? I wanna try and either of you answer is ok for me 😂
We should make a Swiss cheese video too! We really enjoy most aged mountain cheeses, particularly from Engadine. But we’re fans of goat cheese too. We try a different cheese every week to expand our palates of Swiss cheese!
Sure! I would be the first one who would like the video ahaha. Nice! I should do this strategy as well and looking forward to that video!@@AplinsintheAlps
I may have to repeat this when I am there- for purely scientific reasons, of course!!
Love it, scientific research while on vacation 😉🍫👍
Where does the famous Toblerone fit into all this?
Great question! We decided to leave it off the list for this one, mostly because it would have been obvious which one we were tasting due to its shape!!
Toblerone is owned by the US company Mondelēz since 1990. As of 2022 they are not allowed to call theselves "Swiss Chocolate" anymore since the do not produce in switzerland.
They even had to change their logo. It is no longer the Matterhorn. but a ficticious mountain that looks similar to the Matterhorn.
@@JackFate76 yeah, they're made in Slovakia now AFAIK along with another Mondelez-owned brand with Swiss heritage called Milka, the latter also is produced in Germany just outside the Swiss border.
在我的國家瑞士蓮比較熟悉雖然語言上聽的很吃力但我會重複聽
Ovaltine bar #1
Brett loves the ovomaltine spread!
Hello, my name is Heitor, I'm 14 years old, I'm Brazilian and I don't have money to buy a Lindt chocolate Could you send me a chocolate
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I bet you guys really hated filming this one 😜
Swiss chocolate must have blown your minds - the “chocolate” you have in the states is an abomination!
I love reading all of your comments on our video - it's fun to see you binging all of our content :) And yep, how can we complain about Swiss chocolate?!? (You're gonna do a tasting on your next trip here too, right?!!)
@@AplinsintheAlps - I think I might come back from Switzerland considerably bigger 😆
Love the channel! I sent you a dm on instagram to ask you about a dilemma when travelling to switzerland 😢
Uh oh! We aren't very good about checking and replying to instagram DMs :) Feel free to send us an email at janaandbrett@aplinsinthealps.com
@@AplinsintheAlps just sent you an email :D