Chocolate

[MrScorpio]

Choose

[ThomCat]

1. Neither one is really chocolate.

How about adding some real choices to that poll? :(

[MrScorpio]

2. Happy?

[ThomCat]

6. Yes.

:)

Thank you! :9

:hug:

[charlie and algernon]

3. gotta go with the Pennsylvanian chocolate

[charlie and algernon]

4. aw, god dammit, I want my pennsylvanian chocolate back up there!

[MrScorpio]

5. Weh, weh, weh

[charlie and algernon]

7. pennsylvanian=Hershey's

i was fine with the original choices, but whatever, lol.

[MrScorpio]

8. Blame Thomcat

Go ahead and blame him. I'll wait

[ThomCat]

10. It's my fault. There is far more to chocolate

that American commercialized candy that only has 10% chocolate in it anyway. :P

[ThomCat]

9. I used to have Belgian chocolate shipped to me by the case.

Vegan, smooth as sin, and it came in a dozen flavors.

The four flavors I always ordered were:

Dark chocolate with orange
Dark chocolate with mint
Dark chocolate with cocoa nibs
Dark chocolate with Earl Grey Tea

I get serious cravings for chocolate, coffee or tea when I am in pain, but it has to be rich and dark.

[liberaltrucker]

11. Chocolate is an addictive drug and MUST be banned!

I know from experience. It's the brown crack!

:sarcasm:

Edit: My dealer's HQ is in Hershey, PA. Notify the
CEA (Chocolate Enforcement Administration) right
fucking now!

:)

[hedgehog]

12. You left out the Swiss!

(insert smiley running back and forth with its hair on fire here)

[Beaverhausen]

13. How about See's Chocolate from California?

and I don't think Pennsylvania is a country.

[SidneyCarton]

14. Aaah. See's.

A.K.A. "the food of the gods"

[DFW]

15. These are just places that process chocolate

The beans come from places like the Ivory Coast, Venezuela, Ghana, Ecuador, etc, etc.

The beans from the Chuao peninsula in Venezuela are particularly prized, and the Italian
manufacturer, Amedei, has a lock on a lot of that place. The French maker, Bonnat, gets
some, too. I have to say, I prefer Bonnat, even if Amedei costs about triple. Bonnat's
bars of dark chocolate are made with beans from places around the world, and you can
buy them according to location. Production is necessarily sporadic, depending on the
harvests and local political condition (Ivory Coast had a near civil war for a while).

In Belgium, most of the beans come from Africa's Ivory Coast, and the Café-Tasse firm does
wonders with it, making rich dark chocolate with hints of mint, orange, cinnamon, and a
unique white chocolate with finely ground coffee running through it.

It helps that I'm in both France and Belgium once a week for work...........