There are several aspects of this episode that upset me, but the two that need immediate attention are tiramisu and white chocolate as they are both garbage. There is not a dessert under the sun that I won’t eat except for tiramisu. (Flan I need to get a good look at before I decide to eat it, but it at least has a 50-50 shot.) It’s all just glop and coffee flavor, and I don’t really care for either of those things. Italians do a lot of things well, but their signature dessert needs to go the way of the Roman Empire, fallen and obsessed over by people on the internet who will never get to experience it again.
And white chocolate (blech) isn’t really chocolate at all. It’s made from only the butter and fat of the cocoa bean, not any of the solids. That’s like calling a caprese salad a pizz