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CMV: White chocolate is not chocolate.

This may sound like gatekeeping or pedantry but whatever.

Chocolate is the word for products made from the cacao bean. This for the most part is split into cocoa solids and cocoa butter. Milk and dark chocolate products are made with cocoa solids (along with milk, sugar and other things) but the primary component of flavour that makes it distinct is the cocoa solids. Cocoa butter is the primary component of white "chocolate." While it does hail from the same plant, the same bean even, it has a distinctly different flavour, almost opposite colour and different consistency. The similarity is just one of origin and says nothing of qualities. Calling derivations of cocoa butter "chocolate" is as helpful as calling weed hemp and an acorn lumber. Only one of the components should have the title "chocolate."

When someone says something tastes chocolatey, they're invariably talking about the rich flavour of the solids. When someone says something is chocolatey in colour, it is invariably a rich brown. That and chocolate containing solids is far more commonly consumed. White chocolate should be the party that shoves over and renames. It could still be something similar, begining with the "choco-" prefix but it's both confusing and somewhat disingenuous to keep calling these two very different things by one name.

Hell, on a solely marketing note, it may be beneficial to rename the white stuff. Calling it chocolate is only gonna first first buys from people who like chocolate, many of whom will note the stark difference to their preferred confectionery and never touch it again. Meanwhile, there are still plenty of people who don't like chocolate and turn their noses up at the white stuff because of the association. Think of that untapped market. Probably not a huge one but still, why turn them away?

Addendum: It could be argued that chocolate liquor (a product with the same ratio of cocoa solids and butter as the bean) should be the true holder of the title with both of its scions shoving over and being renamed. While I am in principle in favour of this, it would be awfully inconvenient as  the food is so popular. White chocolate being so much less popular should be what is renamed.
gpt
Like how almond milk isn't milk?   
  
White chocolate has a similar origin, and a similar function as chocolate. You can make a KitKat bar with white chocolate instead of milk chocolate, and it will still function the same, but with a slightly different taste. You can mold white chocolate into shapes just like you would any other chocolate. You can melt it and drizzle it on a desert, or coat a strawberry with it.   
Things that taste good with chocolate usually also taste good with white chocolate instead.   
  
There already is a distinction. Putting the "white" in front. Just like how you would put the "milk" or the "dark" in front to differentiate between *those* two.