[If you missed my previous post, this meme started here for me, and question #1 along with instructions is here]
So, here goes question #2 – it was hard to decide, I tell you!
2. Seeing as you may have insider European knowledge which really is better Swiss chocolate or French cheese? 
First I’d like to say I like all things chocolate (or almost) and cheese is one of my favourite foods… so you can imagine this was a bit of a conundrum!
As I may have ‘insider knowledge’ but am not a bit of an expert, I’ll just go with my guts and personal tastes here: I’ll say French cheese is better, but I’ll eat more quantities of Swiss chocolate. Please follow me if you want to know why…
Swiss chocolate is indeed pretty good, I am not going to say otherwise – even if Belgian chocolate is also good and seems to have less publicity overseas – but I mostly like black chocolate: milk is too sweet, white is not really chocolate, and although I sometimes eat it, it’s not something I really like.
So, one could say I really *really* like a third of the total chocolate possibilities.
How often can you eat chocolate? hum, my preferred time it’s right after a meal, with some coffee or without. Yes, I love the French ritual of eating a little slab of black chocolate along with your espresso after lunch – I don’t know where it comes from, but I just love it! Anyways, back to the ‘when’: apart from that, I might eat it right after getting up in the morning (very useful when, like me, you’re prone to dizziness due to an empty stomach in the morning), or at any time during the day, really – whenever I get a little craving, I just grab a little bite!
Chocolate has an important role in my everyday life, even if it is always (at least usually) in small quantities: I’ve never been able to eat a whole slab in a sitting, couldn’t imagine doing it… unless maybe it was some very very thin black chocolate filled with mint… *ehem* yes, I guess I could devour a box of ‘After Eight’ chocolates without even noticing… that’s why you’ll rarely find it in my pantry!
(Notice I haven’t been specific about the origin of the chocolate: it’s because the brands I usually eat are Swiss – so perfect for your question, you were right to say I may have insider knowledge after all! – I also eat a Belgian brand, pretty good too!)
Now to French cheese… or ‘cheeses’, as there are SO many different varieties! I am no expert in the different kinds of French cheese, but there are many many I love – some I just know I’ll love, even if I haven’t tasted them – and a few I don’t really like, even wrinkle my nose at.
I dislike stinky gooey cheeses: not only stinky, because there are many stinky I like; not only gooey because most of those are yummy on a fresh piece of bread… Just stinky and gooey – it’s weird I know, but most of the cheeses I dislike are like that! (I am not going to name them, wouldn’t want to discourage anyone -as if I had enough power or influence, but hey- or make anyone feel annoyed because of my own personal taste…) To follow the chocolate comparison, I’d say I like around 3/4 of the total of French cheeses – even if I haven’t tasted all the kinds available…
Cheese on some bread is my favorite breakfast of all: goat cheese with raspberry jam, some cured Spanish one over a drizzle of olive oil on the toasted bread… {yuummm} *that* is just Heaven for my taste buds! I also love the crunchiness of brown melted cheese over… well over whatever dish you want! And freshly grated cheese on my pasta dishes are a must.
Sadly, I am starting to think I’ll have to be strong so as not to fall into temptation and eat them sparingly, really sparingly: not only I have a quite sensitive level of bad cholesterol in my blood, but I am beginning to notice I have trouble digesting any food that contains lactose… It was hard to reduce my cheese intake because of cholesterol levels, but thinking I may need to take it off my diet completely due to lactose-intolerance just makes me shudder! I don’t think I will, I’ll probably eat some from time to time and then bear with the consequences – at least (let’s just hope!) it won’t be a strong allergy!
So there you go, I’d choose cheese over chocolate in terms of ‘quality’, but when it comes to health… Heck, let’s just put it this way: my heart would choose the cheese, my head chooses the chocolate!
Mmh, it’s not so bad after all – I’ll just cross my fingers so I don’t develop some kind of chocolate intolerance! 
