Chocolate Troubles (and a poll!)
Since my recent confession that I'm not as passionately entranced with chocolate as others seem to be, I've realized that I'm being punished by the chocolate gods. How do I know that there are chocolate gods? Because the Latin name for chocolate is Theobroma cacao, and Theobroma translates as "food of the gods. Duh!
I guess these sadistic deities are mad because I talked smack about their sustenance of choice, so they're punishing me by making sure that lots of diet-crushing, chocolate-y goodness comes my way.
Yesterday, I discovered a confection called a "peanut butter lust bar" at a local health-food store. How could I resist an item named after two of my favorite things? I couldn't. And the bar just happened to be drenched in...chocolate. (More on this when I actually eat it).
Then, this morning, a co-worker showed up with a lovely box of treats from Laughing Moon Chocolates of Stowe. I had a small piece of peppermint bark and a chocolate-covered caramel sprinkled with salt. Mmm. And that was before breakfast. Who knows what might appear this afternoon? Or how long this torture will last?
To appease my tormentors, I will say that I really enjoy chocolate. It's a delightful substance, and those who make truffles, bark and bars are lovely people. All I meant was that given a choice between chocolate and salty, fatty pork products, I'd take the pork. Perhaps I'm in the minority?
You said that given the choice, you'd take the pork, then asked which one we'd give up. I clicked chocolate on the basis of what you'd just said, but changed my answer when I read it more thoroughly - chocolate forever!
Posted by: Cat Woodward | January 28, 2008 at 12:21 PM
How could anyone give up chocolate before pork? I just don't get it.
But hey, more chocolate for me.
Posted by: Cathy Resmer | January 28, 2008 at 01:02 PM
Well if you are in the minority then so am I, I have a savory tooth and pork is natures perfect super food.
http://www.weebls-stuff.com/toons/Pork/
Posted by: James Sergeant | January 28, 2008 at 01:49 PM
Cat -- Sorry for the confusion! Glad you figured it out and corrected your vote, even if you are a member of the dark (chocolate) side.
Cathy -- I'd take a slab of salty sausage or a smoky ham steak over a truffle any day. If you ever come to work with unwanted pork products and I happen to have chocolate, we can swap!
Phew, James, I'm glad to have someone in my camp! We lovers of bacon-y goodness are being vanquished by the sweet-toothed masses!
Posted by: suzanne | January 30, 2008 at 08:41 AM
And the torture continues...at a friend's B-day party on Monday, guess what was for dessert? Chocolate cupcakes with chocolate frosting AND chocolate mousse.
Posted by: suzanne | January 30, 2008 at 08:53 AM
I could never - ever give up chocolate... that would be like giving up romance...
Posted by: Jo-Ann | January 31, 2008 at 10:56 AM
Ain't nobody touching my chocolate. No sir.
Posted by: Eva | February 11, 2008 at 01:31 AM