The Rules Of Chocolate

[Southern Breeze]

The Rules Of Chocolate


1) If you've got melted chocolate all over your hands, you're eating it too slowly.

2) Chocolate covered raisins, cherries, orange slices and strawberries all count as fruit, so eat as many as you want.

3) The problem: How to get 2 pounds of chocolate home from the store in hot car.

The solution: Eat it in the parking lot.

4)Diet tip: Eat a chocolate bar before each meal. It'll take the edge off your appetite and you'll eat less.

5) A nice box of chocolates can provide your total daily intake of calories in one place. Isn't that handy?

6) If I eat equal amounts of dark chocolate and white chocolate, is that a balanced diet? Don't they actually counteract each other?

7) Q. Why is there no such organization as Chocoholics Anonymous?

A. Because no one wants to quit.

8) Money talks. Chocolate sings. Beautifully.

9) Chocolate has many preservatives. Preservatives make you look younger. Therefore, you need to eat more chocolate.

10) Put "eat chocolate" at the top of your list of things to do today. That way, at least you'll get one thing done.

11) If you can't eat all your chocolate, it will keep in the freezer. But if you can't eat all your chocolate, what's wrong with you?

:-D :-D

[Manu]

Dude, no offense...but you sound like my girlfriend when she is hormonal. I dont know what it is with women and chocolate...

[furrycelt]

The Rules Of Chocolate
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And I obey these rules!

I love/revere/worship/lust for chocolate. Heck, I even married a woman from Hershey PA!

If you love chocolate, I strongly recommend this brand: Dagoba. They make the best super-dark chocolate that I have found in the United States. The only thing better I have had was from Italy. Dagoba sells their bars with a percentage rating on the label. Think of it as "octane"! They also make a 74% bar with chili in it. Yes, chili... the chocolate actually burns... but in a good way... yeah baby!

-ian

[calmac]

And I obey these rules!

I love/revere/worship/lust for chocolate. Heck, I even married a woman from Hershey PA!

If you love chocolate, I strongly recommend this brand: Dagoba. They make the best super-dark chocolate that I have found in the United States. The only thing better I have had was from Italy. Dagoba sells their bars with a percentage rating on the label. Think of it as "octane"! They also make a 74% bar with chili in it. Yes, chili... the chocolate actually burns... but in a good way... yeah baby!

-ian

That sounds great, I don't suppose you can buy it on the internet? :mrgreen:

[Nick]

10) Put "eat chocolate" at the top of your list of things to do today. That way, at least you'll get one thing done.

Already did. Does that mean I don't have to do anything else today? ;)

The best chocolate I ever had was in Belgium. Same goes for a lot.

[mddock58]

Chocolate = Life
Life = Chocolate

Chocolate can get you anything else you think you need. Or else you really didn't need it!

Enough said


(all said tounge in cheek!)


BTW - the best chocolate I ever had was the last cocolate I had!

[furrycelt]

That sounds great, I don't suppose you can buy it on the internet? :mrgreen:

I've not tried. There are a few stores around me that sell it. Whole Foods Market is a chain, but I am not sure how far they cover. I like to describe them as hippy grocery stores. They are big on selling fruits'n'nuts to fruit'n'nuts. Don't get me wrong I love the place, and would shop there more often if I was in a higher tax bracket. I will occasionally see a few Dagoba bars sold at other normal grocery stores too.

It looks like you can use Froogle to find some online. And the company's website sells it as well.

-ian

[calmac]

I've not tried. There are a few stores around me that sell it. Whole Foods Market is a chain, but I am not sure how far they cover. I like to describe them as hippy grocery stores. They are big on selling fruits'n'nuts to fruit'n'nuts. Don't get me wrong I love the place, and would shop there more often if I was in a higher tax bracket. I will occasionally see a few Dagoba bars sold at other normal grocery stores too.

It looks like you can use Froogle to find some online. And the company's website sells it as well.

-ian

Thanks for the info, I can't wait to try chili flavoured chocolate.

[furrycelt]

Thanks for the info, I can't wait to try chili flavoured chocolate.

Allow me to elaborate. I wouldn't describe it as "chili flavoured". You can't really taste the chili, but you do feel the heat. What you taste is a richer more intense chocolate. For some reason, having chili in chocolate makes the chocolate hit your senses stronger.

Alton Brown of the TV show "Good Eats" spoke of this in one episode. He said it was discovered by the ancient Aztecs. Brown's hot cocoa recipe even calls for a small pinch of cayenne pepper. I intend to make that someday to try it.

-ian

[davedove]

Allow me to elaborate. I wouldn't describe it as "chili flavoured". You can't really taste the chili, but you do feel the heat. What you taste is a richer more intense chocolate. For some reason, having chili in chocolate makes the chocolate hit your senses stronger.

Alton Brown of the TV show "Good Eats" spoke of this in one episode. He said it was discovered by the ancient Aztecs. Brown's hot cocoa recipe even calls for a small pinch of cayenne pepper. I intend to make that someday to try it.

-ian

That has been common a practice for many Mexican cooks. You don't put in enough to taste the chiles, or even really feel their heat. Just a pinch will "wake up" the taste of the chocolate.

I've been known to put cocoa powder into a pot of chili. Same principle, but in the opposite direction. The cocoa gives the chili a richness that is wonderful.8-)