The traditional British English term for what Americans call dark chocolate — chocolate made with cocoa solids and cocoa butter but without added milk.
The traditional British English term for what Americans call dark chocolate — chocolate made with cocoa solids and cocoa butter but without added milk. 'Plain' here distinguishes it from milk chocolate rather than implying blandness; in fact, plain chocolate can be intensely rich and bittersweet. Still widely used in UK recipe books and packaging, though 'dark chocolate' has been gaining ground as the international term.
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UK and Irish slang — Cockney, Scouse, Geordie, Yorkshire, Glaswegian, Brummie, Welsh, West Country, plus Irish English. Centuries of regional dialects feeding into modern British and Irish street talk.
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(countable) A single, small piece of confectionery made from chocolate.
(UK, Ireland, Canada) A digestive biscuit with a chocolate coating on one side.
(mostly, uncountable) A food made from ground roasted cocoa beans.
(mostly, uncountable) A drink made by dissolving this food in boiling milk or water.
The recipe called for 200g of plain chocolate with at least 70% cocoa solids, so she grabbed the darkest bar she could find.
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(UK) dark chocolate.
“Fruit was the one with raisins. Golf was actually just plain chocolate.”
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