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Post by Bardan_the_Slayer on Oct 28, 2001 21:34:43 GMT -5
Chocolate..........*DROOL* Silmarillion..........*DROOL*
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Post by Reeka on Oct 28, 2001 21:38:36 GMT -5
Damn straight! The man or woman who says anything bad about chocolate gets pix of me naked! And then you'll wish you were dead! Chocolate is a vile and disgusting substance and makes me sick to even think about it, much less to actually ingest it!
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Post by Bardan_the_Slayer on Oct 28, 2001 21:40:38 GMT -5
Chocolate is a vile and disgusting substance and makes me sick to even think about it, much less to actually ingest it! Were it anybody else posting, I would have to carry out my vile and disgusting threat, but I *know* you would never defile chocolate in that way. I am forced to believe you have .... other reasons ... for saying this Oh, and make sure to check your mail in the morning
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Post by Nachtrafe-Tyrant Jr on Oct 28, 2001 22:58:27 GMT -5
So...what about white chocolate? Technically, its chocolate, but its vanilla colored?
Ummm...Bardan...I think Chocolate is the most gloriously wonderful thing in the whole of the universe.
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Post by Melusine on Oct 29, 2001 3:10:41 GMT -5
So...what about white chocolate? Technically, its chocolate, but its vanilla colored? Ummm...Bardan...I think Chocolate is the most gloriously wonderful thing in the whole of the universe. Nachty... actually, white chocolate isn't considered real chocolate officially. That's because it is made from cocoa butter, but there is no cocoa powder in it...To be called chocolate officially, it needs to have at least 30% cocoa powder in it (maybe Bardan could help with the correct percentage because I'm not sure?).
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Post by Kothoses the Tyrant on Oct 29, 2001 3:20:06 GMT -5
Nachty... actually, white chocolate isn't considered real chocolate officially. That's because it is made from cocoa butter, but there is no cocoa powder in it...To be called chocolate officially, it needs to have at least 30% cocoa powder in it (maybe Bardan could help with the correct percentage because I'm not sure?). I think that in its self is a whole new discussion, White choccy, is it really choccy at all?
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Post by IceAngel on Oct 29, 2001 9:27:57 GMT -5
I love white chocolate, but Mel is right. It isn't actually 'chocolate' because it lacks the cocoa ingredient. Still purrty tasty though! Oh Bardan dear! Open the safe and share! Now as to preference btwn vanilla and chocolate? I'd take Vanilla about 90% of the time
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Post by Falkirk on Oct 29, 2001 21:11:23 GMT -5
Oh...food. I thought this thread was about women!
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Post by Silmarillion on Oct 29, 2001 21:19:22 GMT -5
LOL @ Falkirk!!
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Post by Maigan on Oct 29, 2001 22:26:49 GMT -5
Go chocolate.
Chocolate has had a huge impact on the history of the world:
Chocolate contains two types of stimulants: caffeine and the alkaloid theobromine, purine
Chocolate has more than 500 flavor components, more than twice the amount found in strawberry and vanilla.
Chocolate was once considered a temptation of the devil. In Central American mountain villages during the eighteenth century, no one under the age of 60 was permitted to drink it, and churchgoers who defied the rule were threatened with excommunication.
Quakers sang the praises of chocolate drinks as a healthful substitute for gin in the early 1700s
Drinking chocolate mixed with milk, wine, or beer was considered a must at fashionable social events in the seventeenth century
It was reported that Napoleon carried chocolate with him on his military campaigns, and always ate it when he needed a boost of energy.
Chocolate, as a drink, was a favorite of Montezuma, emperor of the Aztecs. In the early 1500s, Montezuma drank as much as 50 glasses of chocolate every day. Hernando Cortez, the Spanish conquistador, brought the drink back to Spain in 1529. It remained a favorite of the Spanish royalty for many years before becoming consumed widely throughout Europe. Three hundred years later in England, chocolate was first used as a non-liquid confection.
Consumers spend more than $7 billion a year on chocolate
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Post by Bex on Oct 29, 2001 23:46:31 GMT -5
doesn't anyone know anything about cooking? vanilla is a natural compliment to chocolate.
"life is not ever either or. it's and and and and and." philip roth
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Post by Billy_Yank on Oct 31, 2001 18:44:16 GMT -5
mmmmmm, chocolate.
dark.... and bittersweet..... (sigh)
Um, were we talking about food or women? ;D
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Post by Reeka on Nov 1, 2001 18:19:42 GMT -5
maybe both?
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Post by Kothoses the Tyrant on Nov 1, 2001 18:25:13 GMT -5
I like women
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Post by Billy_Yank on Nov 1, 2001 19:29:19 GMT -5
It is for me.
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