Camel's milk chocolate coming to the west

Al Nassma, a Dubai-based camel's milk chocolate company is planning to export its wares overseas to the US and UK. No word on whether any of the enslaved South Asian workers who make the stuff have fallen in the vats.

With 3,000 camels on its Dubai farm, the company sells chocolates through its farm-attached store as well as in luxury hotels and private airlines. It plans to launch an online shopping facility within a month, Van Almsick said. The farm is controlled by the Dubai government...

"We aim to be the Godiva [ed: Ew. Aim higher, camel chocolate man!] of the Middle East," Van Almsick said in an interview. "It's a luxury product, so we will never be in supermarkets. The plan is to be in one mall in each UAE city."

World's first camel-milk chocolates going global (via Consumerist)

(Photo: Camel, a Creative Commons Attribution photo from Victoria Reay's Flickr stream)

[#1 posted by Spencer Cross, July 22, 2009 11:56 PM]

It's probably not grammatically correct, but that headline would be way more readable with a properly placed hyphen: "Camel's-milk chocolate." On first read, I thought R.J. Reynolds was bringing their Far East milk chocolate brand to the west!

[#2 posted by Anonymous, July 23, 2009 12:35 AM]

How can they be the equivalent of godiva when they make milk chocolate? Milk chocolate is candy, whereas dark chocolate is a refined artistic culinary experience.

I prefer ghirardelli myself.

[#3 posted by sammich, July 23, 2009 12:48 AM]

dromedairy?

[#4 posted by sammich, July 23, 2009 12:49 AM]

or pro-biotic bacterian?

[#5 posted by sharjah, July 23, 2009 1:40 AM]

Pic is of a Bactrian camel, not a dromedary that is used for producing this chocolate. I bought some yesterday here in Dubai - yet to try though.

[#6 posted by Adam Stanhope, July 23, 2009 2:14 AM]

Where can I buy a Doovde?

I am most interested in a Joovce Doovde. My equipment is ready for the hud.

[#7 posted by ryane, July 23, 2009 3:09 AM]

this is awesome. My son is allergic to cow's milk. Camel's milk, not so sure.

[#8 posted by vellon, July 23, 2009 3:17 AM]

Anyone else think this was chocolate camel milk and not camel milk chocolate?

[#9 posted by Anonymous, July 23, 2009 3:22 AM]

you sure that's not "caramel"?

[#10 posted by AnoniMouse, July 23, 2009 4:35 AM]

Vellon: Yes. I had images of chocolate syrup being stirred into a tall chilly glass of camel's milk. I'm not sure if I thought it was appealing, though.

[#11 posted by george57l, July 23, 2009 5:02 AM]

"Camel-milk Chocolate" would be fine (grammatically - tastewise I think it would give me the hump and cause me to spit).

[#12 posted by Anonymous, July 23, 2009 5:39 AM]

#2 - Ha, they used the exact pun in a WSJ article yesterday that was actually about bringing camel milk to the US. Milking camels sounds extremely un-fun.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124821760380770121.html

[#13 posted by dculberson, July 23, 2009 6:53 AM]

Adam, do you have a loocide toove?

[#14 posted by Micah, July 23, 2009 6:56 AM]

The WSJ had a story yesterday about a woman in North Carolina trying to start a drome-dairy. Coincidence?

[#15 posted by georigin, July 23, 2009 8:05 AM]

Its pretty Nice actually, comes in a gold camel shaped wrapper. It tastes saltier than regular milk chocolate, which is obvious because Camel milk is saltier...its still no substitute for cow milk chocolate though...

[#16 posted by Anonymous, July 23, 2009 8:22 AM]

Al Nassma has enslaved South Asia workers?

[#17 posted by nanuq, July 23, 2009 8:32 AM]

Do the camel milkmaids get danger pay?

[#18 posted by godfathersoul, July 23, 2009 9:32 AM]

mistake number one: using milk in the chocolate. but then, i suppose that leaving it out would defeat the purpose.

[#19 posted by adamnvillani, July 23, 2009 10:50 PM]

Milk chocolate is candy, whereas dark chocolate is a refined artistic culinary experience.

Let me translate that for you: "Milk chocolate tastes good, and dark chocolate tastes like it would be better if only somebody added some milk."

[#20 posted by Anonymous, August 30, 2009 11:06 PM]

Godiva makes milk chocolate, too. Visit their web site next time, first. As does Ghirardelli.

"refined artistic culinary experience" :p