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Eeeeachhh! Dark Chocolate?

Milk Chocolate is for eating.

Dark chocolate is for baking. Or for throwing away.

Sad to say... somewhere along the line I completely lost my taste for chocolate.

I don't actively dislike the stuff. It's just that it became no more interesting to eat than a slice of white bread, or a rice cake.

Just not worth the bother.

However... building stuff out of chocolate... that's fun.

Over the last few years a few friends and I have gotten together to try to build a Jaques Torres type chocolate centerpiece for a local school charity do. We're 0 for 4. 2 were just lame. And 2 fell apart in transit.

We'll never dance with the big boys... but there are few things as entertaining as a bunch of construction workers in their 40s and 50s, getting together with a couple of vats of melted chocolate, and a few cases of beer.

Last year I actually recreated the Top Hat Torres designed for his Vegas piece. But sadly, the rest of the Vegas tableau was hit by an earthquake enroute to the back of the pick-up truck.

(Nope, the judges didn't buy the earthquake story either.)

ahochaude wrote:You could always feed it to aho!!! :D
Especially the Reese's!!!!! The ONLY chocolate I would eat, besides Snickers! :D

AC, that's my man!! :woot:

The Man: well, if i was giving it away as a gift, of course, i'd have the sense to buy them godiva's or something. but i find it sort of hard to do so since i view it as kind of a waste. i mean, i wouldn't eat crappy chocolate, but if it tastes pretty good, why would i spend $2 a piece when i can get two buttercups for 50 cents? :hehe:

bmw: people should follow your advice, man. i read somewhere that dark chocolate is actually good for you (in moderation). kinda like red wine (again, in MODERATION). i personally prefer milk, but i'll eat dark every so often. especially, dove's. those are pretty good.

jholic wrote:
bmw: people should follow your advice, man. i read somewhere that dark chocolate is actually good for you (in moderation). kinda like red wine (again, in MODERATION). i personally prefer milk, but i'll eat dark every so often. especially, dove's. those are pretty good.

You got my stomach worked up now....:D I also like dark, bittersweet chocolate. Then again I'll eat any kind of chocolate.

dochira wrote:

You got my stomach worked up now....:D I also like dark, bittersweet chocolate. Then again I'll eat any kind of chocolate.

Me too. I love finding those small Hershey's dark chocolate bars that are mixed in with the other hershey's candies around Halloween. I wish I had one now. :shamefulcry:

Geezer wrote:Eeeeachhh! Dark Chocolate?

Milk Chocolate is for eating.

Dark chocolate is for baking. Or for throwing away.

Sad to say... somewhere along the line I completely lost my taste for chocolate.

I don't actively dislike the stuff. It's just that it became no more interesting to eat than a slice of white bread, or a rice cake.

Just not worth the bother.

However... building stuff out of chocolate... that's fun.

Over the last few years a few friends and I have gotten together to try to build a Jaques Torres type chocolate centerpiece for a local school charity do. We're 0 for 4. 2 were just lame. And 2 fell apart in transit.

We'll never dance with the big boys... but there are few things as entertaining as a bunch of construction workers in their 40s and 50s, getting together with a couple of vats of melted chocolate, and a few cases of beer.

Last year I actually recreated the Top Hat Torres designed for his Vegas piece. But sadly, the rest of the Vegas tableau was hit by an earthquake enroute to the back of the pick-up truck.

(Nope, the judges didn't buy the earthquake story either.)

you are so right,
i never could undertsand why anyone would ever want to eat that stuff
tastes like ear wax.
milk chocolate is the best for sure, but im almost sick of it!
i eat it almost everyday at work :shakehead:
ugggghhhh when its slow the free samples go straight into my belly :sweat:
luckily im over the ice cream, the sight of it makes me ill :bleh:

Geezer wrote:Sad to say... somewhere along the line I completely lost my taste for chocolate.

Cigarettes will do that. :rolleyes:

Doramafan113 wrote:Me too. I love finding those small Hershey's dark chocolate bars that are mixed in with the other hershey's candies around Halloween. I wish I had one now. :shamefulcry:

Yes...! Hershey's Special Dark. :D

I always pick those out and eat 'em first. Always.

TANG wrote:i never could undertsand why anyone would ever want to eat that stuff
tastes like ear wax.

Maybe you should lay off eating ear wax.

bmwracer wrote:
Cigarettes will do that. :rolleyes:

Possibly.

But I take solice in the notion that while you healthy types are burning to a crisp do to the hole in the ozone, I'm walking around in complete safety, blanketed by my own protective cloud of nicotine laced smoke.

Geezer wrote:

Possibly.

But I take solice in the notion that while you healthy types are burning to a crisp do to the hole in the ozone, I'm walking around in complete safety, blanketed by my own protective cloud of nicotine laced smoke.

:rofl: Now that was funny.

Doramafan113 wrote:

Geezer wrote:
Possibly.

But I take solice in the notion that while you healthy types are burning to a crisp do to the hole in the ozone, I'm walking around in complete safety, blanketed by my own protective cloud of nicotine laced smoke.

:rofl: Now that was funny.

Hahah, yeah. Quite witty.

And, ah, most folks I know who smoke cigarettes, heh, they normally don't have to work out and all to keep their weight down. Smoking seems to do the trick. That makes ME consider taking up smokiing, bwhhahahah.

Geezer wrote:But I take solice in the notion that while you healthy types are burning to a crisp do to the hole in the ozone, I'm walking around in complete safety, blanketed by my own protective cloud of nicotine laced smoke.

I know not of the UVA/UVB protective qualities of cigarette smoke... Is this from Phillip Morris research? :hehe:

This is from the Rush Limbaugh, Bill O'Reilly, L. Ron Hubbard Institute of Fact Checking, and Semi-Scientific Creative Research.

It's very well documented.

Manny

Re: smoking as the path to a trim figure.

While I attribute most of my happiness to dedicated smoking, I have to admit, I smoke like the brick chimney on a three story Colonial house... and weigh about the same... as said chimney.

As a diet aide... smoking blows.

Maybe I'm doing it wrong.

Geezer wrote:Milk Chocolate is for eating.

Dark chocolate is for baking.

And when you're done baking, you eat it, neh?? :crazy:

And when you finally lost weight (thanks to smoking) and want to quit smoking: you'll gain weight, cos you'll start eating lots of candy n other junk to make up :bonk:

bmwracer wrote:
And when you're done baking, you eat it, neh?? :crazy:

mmmmmmmmmmrrrrrrrrpp!!!

Vanila Extract is nifty, once baked into a cake or a pie.

Baking power is wonderful... baked into a cake or pie.

Flour is the staff of life... and an important part of a cake.

But I do not slurp Van. Ext. out of the bottle.

I do not sprinkle Baking Power on my cheerios and say yum.

I do not eat plain flour, (raw, bleached, organic or twice sifted) with a spoon out of the bag.

And I do not eat dark chocolate.

And because I don't, I don't think anyone else should either.

I'm thinking of commissioning a study to prove dark chocolate causes weeping boils.

Once I have that, it's only a hop and skip to starting a political movement that will force all you dark chocolate eaters out into the woods, where you can eat your dark chocolate without subjecting the rest of us to the sight of your running sores.

Too much time with power tools and no ear protection has finally taken its toll on you, Geez. :beaten:

(coming into this thread late)

What's wrong with folks eating dark chocolate? Remember hearing on the news the other week something about the health benefits of eating dark chocolate.
-PCM

here's an old article about the supposed benefits of dark chocolate:
http://my.webmd.com/content/Article/73/81921.htm

pcmodem wrote:(coming into this thread late)

What's wrong with folks eating dark chocolate? Remember hearing on the news the other week something about the health benefits of eating dark chocolate.
-PCM

Communist Propoganda. Plain and simple.