All about chocolate: the good, the bad, the ugly

pacific breeze · November 29th, 2005, 12:05 AM

What's yer poison? I like the super dark, cocoa-rich chocolate, which is even supposed to be good for you in moderation. I especially love it with sour fruit and/or melted on vanilla ice cream. Yum.

My hubby thinks it's an aphrodisiac? Do you? Examples welcome!

moomies · November 29th, 2005, 04:35 AM

I'm not sure if it is really an aphrodisiac but I do think there is such a thing as chocoholism.

I like hazelnut chocolate, you know the hedgehog ones from Brussel Chocolate.

Tiara · November 29th, 2005, 05:47 AM

I lurrrrrrrrve milk chocolate, galaxy is my favourite, and caramel mmmmmmm I need some chocolate now.

You know, I know this sounds crazy but whenever I have PMS and I'm in a bad mood, my bf buys me some chocolate and it really cheers me up, its like a drug!!

pacific breeze · November 29th, 2005, 08:39 PM

A spa where I live offers chocolate treatments such as a chocolate blizzard scrub, chocolate manicure and pedicure and a chocolate and whipped cream relaxing massage. Has anyone ever had one of these? And you get to eat and drink chocolate while all of this is going on!

I may ask for one, or all of the above, for Christmas.

UndercoverGator · November 29th, 2005, 08:41 PM

Mmmmmmmmm...chocolate spa treatments. I'm in heaven.

There's a shop in my town with a French candy maker there. I could live on his handmade rich chocolates. I started out many years ago not particular about what type chocolate I had, now I only really love the gourmet stuff, the darker the better.

pacific breeze · November 29th, 2005, 08:46 PM

Once you get used to the really good stuff, there's no going back.

Sojiita · November 29th, 2005, 10:26 PM

There is no "ugly" or "bad" with chocolate...there is only good, better, and best!!!

Algernon · November 29th, 2005, 10:29 PM

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Originally Posted by Sojiita

There is no "ugly" or "bad" with chocolate...there is only good, better, and best!!!

Exactly! Well, except the time when I was about 7 and I bit into my mother's baking chocolate and was unpleasantly surprised (BITTER!!!!)

I have cheap taste: Dove Dark Chocolate Promises. My best friend and I give each other bags of them for Christmas, it's a delicious tradition. They gotta be dark, though.

FierceKiten · November 29th, 2005, 10:38 PM

Milk Chocolate period. I can kill a box of See's Candy and I try all the samples while im there. In fact I went 2 days of eating nothing but chocolate, wasnt a hoilday either.As well as any chocolate and cocoa bath products calms me down.

miss_perfect · November 29th, 2005, 10:44 PM

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Originally Posted by pacific breeze

A spa where I live offers chocolate treatments such as a chocolate blizzard scrub, chocolate manicure and pedicure and a chocolate and whipped cream relaxing massage. Has anyone ever had one of these? And you get to eat and drink chocolate while all of this is going on!

I may ask for one, or all of the above, for Christmas.

I had something possibly similar to a chocolate blizzard scrub, but it was a chocolate coffee one. I didn't really want it, I hate smelling like dessert food. But if was a gift from my brother's GF so I felt like I had to do it. It wasn't the best scrub I've gotten; for that I recommend the oak leaf treatment at the Russian/Turkish Baths.

Sojiita · November 29th, 2005, 10:50 PM

Another good thing about chocolate even extends to the garden: cocoa shells! They make a great mulch! You can buy a 3 cubic foot bag for about 6 bucks-great to use in outside potted plants or in flower beds near a patio, porch or deck. After watering or a nice rain on a warm summer night the smell is intoxicating!!!

phishtickie · November 30th, 2005, 08:47 AM

I love the combination of chocolate and coconut! I am a coconut lover. Also caramel, marzipan and yoghurt filled chocolate.. yummy!

sputnik · November 30th, 2005, 09:03 AM

dark chocolate freak here. i'm a purist. i need a high cocoa content (minimum 70%), and i like my choc plain, no fancy fillings, liqueur, fruit, nuts or anything.
the only exceptions are cafe-tasse's wonderful dark chocolate with fresh ginger bits (douple aphrodisiac there), and villars dark chocolate with whole almonds, and the dark chocolate with candied orange rinds.
i live in switzerland, so needless to say, chocolate is everywhere. and there are loads of confiserie places that make the most wonderful, artisanal chocolate ever. i'm spoiled.

UndercoverGator · November 30th, 2005, 09:48 AM

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Originally Posted by Sojiita

There is no "ugly" or "bad" with chocolate...there is only good, better, and best!!!

You wouldn't say that if you'd ever eaten the crap that sells as chocolate in Communist countries. I've had chocolates in the former Yugoslavia, East Germany and USSR, tasted more like chalk or other weird things than chocolate.

Sojiita · December 1st, 2005, 02:56 AM

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Originally Posted by UndercoverGator

You wouldn't say that if you'd ever eaten the crap that sells as chocolate in Communist countries. I've had chocolates in the former Yugoslavia, East Germany and USSR, tasted more like chalk or other weird things than chocolate.

I bet you are right! I can only imagine old soviet chocolate!*gags at the thought*