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ra_mom

Fri, Nov 15 2024, 3:10 pm

amother OP wrote:

TY everyone. I know that prices vary but are chocolate baking bars *typically* cheaper than chips? I would assume so.

A bar is 3.5 ounces and a bag of chocolate chips is 9 oz for roughly the same price.

A chocolate bar is of higher quality and a splurge to chop up.

Unless you're referring to baking chocolate? That is 15 oz in size (almost double the size) and the baking bar is about 45% more than the bag of chocolate chips (not double the price).

↑ Bnei Berak 10 ↓

Sat, Nov 16 2024, 11:50 am

etky wrote:

When I moved to Israel in 1980 there were no chocolate chips here (among other things like broccoli, celery stalks, fresh mushrooms, normal breakfast cereal etc.) so we chopped up chocolate bars.
I'll never forget the excitement when the Oppenheimer c. chips first hit the supermarkets sometime in the mid-eighties IIRC.
That said, I still cut up chocolate sometimes if I want higher quality pieces or chunks instead of chips for baking.

Israel has improved drastically since the 80's Baruch HaShem!
Wasn't it a shock to shop without so many things that you grew up with and considered basic?

↑ Bnei Berak 10

Sat, Nov 16 2024, 11:54 am

mommyhood wrote:

I looked it up in my stores they’re not cheaper.not a huge price difference but why would I spend more to work harder.

You don't have to chop up your own chips if you don't want to but you need to know that it's possible to do so.

↑ etky

Sat, Nov 16 2024, 2:36 pm

Bnei Berak 10 wrote:

Israel has improved drastically since the 80's Baruch HaShem!
Wasn't it a shock to shop without so many things that you grew up with and considered basic?

So I was only 14 when we moved here and had no firsthand experience grocery shopping in the States. Still, it was indeed a shock not having all these foods that we took for granted in the States just not available and/or unknown here. Even things like sweetened peanut butter and tuna fish.
It really was a third world country back then in so many ways. It had its charms though, and sometimes I miss those simpler times.

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