For people actually saying what their favorite chocolate is, go here: http://www.theyeshivaworld.com/coffeeroom/topic/chocolate
Some of those users are long gone, but Oomis, Coffee Addict, and Kapusta are here now (and Gefen and BrotherOfUrs were also here in the last few months).
Fun (?) fact: The cocoa bean was a common currency throughout Mesoamerica (wherever that is) before the Spanish conquest.
If we’re taking anything that grows from the ground to be a vegetable, I believe there’s a Gemara that classifies animals, with regard to a specific thing, as “giddulei karka.”
oomis:
“Chocolate comes from cacao beans which grown in the ground.”
Actually, they grow on a tree!
RebYidd23:
Mushrooms grow on the ground, but they don’t grow from it.
(Where have the users who would get Star Wars
references gone? OneOfMany is sorely missed…)