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- kaoitik, on 06/29/2009, -0/+301. Put chocolate in mouth.
2. Chew and swallow chocolate.
3. Happy.
4. Repeat until you are a) satisfied, b) out of chocolate, c) horribly obese from eating too much chocolate. - Indyanna, on 06/29/2009, -0/+23"the average person in the United States eats 10 pounds (4.5 kg) of chocolate every year"
Hey, I'm above average! - mrpunman, on 06/29/2009, -1/+23I love giving chocolates to girls
- EMFK, on 06/28/2009, -0/+20Now I need to go find some chocolate. :-)
- kathmath7, on 06/29/2009, -0/+16i love getting chocolate from boys
- earlvanze, on 06/29/2009, -4/+20DON'T SETTLE FOR REGULAR CHOCOLATE. GET THE AMAZING MEGA COCOA FOR ONLY 19.95. BUT WAIT, THERE'S MORE. ORDER NOW AND GET TWO BOXES OF MEGA COCOA FOR THE SAME LOW PRICE.
- LilJimmyNordin, on 06/29/2009, -0/+125. ????????
6. Profit - inactive, on 06/29/2009, -0/+12Girls make my wallet hurt.
- Duncan3, on 06/29/2009, -0/+11It's a drug cocktail, that's both how and why it works, then they add sugar to make it taste sweet and even more addictive. Theobromine (stimulant), Tryptophan for a little seratonin push, a little Caffeine, and something for the dopamine too... oh and that load of sugar. How complex is that to understand?
Not that I don't like it :) - thegrantman, on 06/29/2009, -0/+10Girls make my heart hurt.
- shifty50fs, on 06/29/2009, -0/+9i love giving diggs to chocolate
- Duffle, on 06/29/2009, -0/+9Girls make my brain hurt.
- redwolfwalker, on 06/28/2009, -0/+8That's one way chocolate works
- DouglasQ, on 06/29/2009, -0/+8No longer will I have to frustrate myself into a stupor trying to get my head around the complexity of chocolate.
- tgc1, on 06/29/2009, -0/+7I love people giving me chocolate. I don't care about their gender.
- aizvek, on 06/29/2009, -0/+7We only like chocolate because it has loads of sugar in it. Try eating cocoa beans without sugar. Even monkeys spit them out.
- Roguecop, on 06/29/2009, -0/+7Dark chocolate is a hard expensive addiction to conquer. It's kind of like red wine with various notes of flavor, you get into in. Luckily the stuff is loaded with anti-oxidants and satisfies you with much smaller portions than milk chocolate or other sweets. If you prefer real dark chocolate(at least 72% cocoa) over plain milk chocolate, congratulations you have good taste. If you like 88% you're hard core. I recommend 'Endangered Species Extreme Dark Chocolate.'
Enjoy chocolate while it last, because some day, for a variety of reasons it(the cocoa plant) might be gone or very hard and expensive to acquire. We'll end up with some lab synthesized substitute. - ButterLoyalist, on 06/29/2009, -0/+6chocolate is poison for dogs
- tgc1, on 06/29/2009, -0/+4The raw beans are basically inedible. Try eating a raw coffee bean.
- waspbr, on 06/29/2009, -0/+4no dude, chocolate is for eating, not *****
- mctom987, on 06/29/2009, -0/+4Milk chocolate can cause you to get fat, but the darker the chocolate, the harder it is.
- pinkfish411, on 06/29/2009, -0/+4I mostly agree. While I've had a few really good artisan milk chocolates, most of what passes for chocolate is pretty disgusting.
I can understand the opinion that the purer forms of chocolate are an acquired taste, though. I personally love bars that are almost pure cacao, but I can't just pull one out of the pantry and start eating it. I usually have to progress through some weaker bars to acclimate my taste buds. I can understand how someone who's used to milk chocolate would be turned off if they picked up some unsweetened or barely sweetened chocolate without working up to it. - inactive, on 06/29/2009, -0/+4Poison is dogs for chocolate.
- EddiePotato, on 06/29/2009, -0/+4You mean it's like an 80s hair band to them?
- CaviMike, on 06/29/2009, -1/+5FTA
"Chocolate liquor is pure, unsweetened chocolate. Eaten in this state, it's pretty nasty because it is bitter, but it's possible to acquire a taste for it."
With the exception of when I was a kid, I've preferred this flavor over sweetened chocolate and I think milk chocolate is horrible. I don't know what this guy is talking about 'acquired taste.' I think you either like it or you don't. - anatoxindust, on 06/29/2009, -3/+7This is just silly. Black people don't work. /s
- inactive, on 06/29/2009, -0/+3its the june 29 is your caps still stuck
- bipolarruledout, on 06/29/2009, -0/+3I think organic dark chocolates have a much larger flavor profile and much less suger as well. It's a lot like dry wine, the sugar gets in the way. I like the sweet milk chocolate on occasion but you can't beat good dark chocolate.
- tgc1, on 06/29/2009, -0/+3I don't think you can actually get fat from eating chocolate. Even so, it would be a delicious ride there.
- Altotus, on 06/29/2009, -0/+3It's bad, but it's not as toxic as all that. Our dog once ate a 1.5 kilo brick of chocolate. I'm sure she felt awful for a few hours, but she had no long term side effects. The LD50 for theobromine in dogs is in the 100-200 mg/kg body mass range (depending on breed). The theobromine content of chocolate varies from 0 (whit chocolate), to 14g / kg for unsweetened dark chocolate. Your average milk chocolate will have in the ballpark of 1.5g / kg. So, 1.5kg of milk chocolate = 2.25g theobromine. A 20 kg dog (ours is a husky) has an LD50 of 150 mg/kg * 20 kg = 3g -- so that was uncomfortably close (she threw up), but odds were in her favor.
Not many people have 1.5kg bricks of chocolate laying about. However, my wife makes candy as a hobby, so it's not unusual for us to have 5.5kg bars of various chocolate around - albeit usually locked up and out of dog-reach. - nipterink, on 06/29/2009, -0/+3given that it's a female husky, that sounds pretty normal to me. even for a male that's still an acceptable weight.
- Kinneas12, on 06/29/2009, -0/+3After all, we are from ze land of chocolate.
- zacbro, on 06/29/2009, -0/+3I like chocolate.
- pinkfish411, on 06/29/2009, -0/+3Plain roasted cacao nibs are actually quite good, just an acquired taste. And you can find good chocolate bars with surprising little sugar in them. I've definitely had some 91% dark bars that I've enjoyed very much.
The perfect chocolate bar, to me, has very little sugar and just a drop of vanilla, both of which help bring out chocolate's more pleasing flavors and mask some of the bitterness. Cinnamon and/or ground chiles also make a good addition at times. - bipolarruledout, on 06/29/2009, -0/+2True but those drugs are present in fairly small amounts. Coffee is far more addictive just because of the caffeine.
- bipolarruledout, on 06/29/2009, -0/+2Throw in some oxycontin and we'll talk.
- zagatbuzz, on 06/29/2009, -0/+2Chocolate sure is delicious, but wow, Americans eat an average of 10 pounds a year? That's a little much...
- inactive, on 06/29/2009, -0/+2My cousin's dog got into a canister of baking cocoa one time when I was a child. He knocked it off of the counter, causing powered cocoa to go everywhere. He lapped a bunch of it up, and sniffed the rest up off of the floor like a junkie snorting cocaine. Afterward he sneezed for several minutes straight, then lay on the floor and convulsed for a few seconds before getting up and going about his business. He was find afterward and lived to a ripe old age. I would conjecture that some dogs are more susceptible to chocolate overdose than others.
- rklrkl, on 06/29/2009, -0/+2Of course, the article forgot to add this for US readers:
"The final step is to create a foul-tasting chocolate that anyone who's tasted just about any other brand of chocolate would spit out immediately. It's known as a 'Hershey bar' and *no-one* would ever want its so-called 'secret recipe'". - cawfee, on 06/29/2009, -1/+3Girls make my stomach hurt.
- diablo75, on 06/29/2009, -0/+2I'm pretty sure it's not very deadly for dogs in small amounts. It's just addictive as ***** if they ever taste it. Because once they do, they crave it. So if you ever gave them a chocolate chip cookie one day, they'd be fine, but then accidentally leave a chocolate cake or pan of fudge brownies sitting out they'd probably go ape ***** crazy while you're gone trying to get it down and gorge on the whole thing. That happened to me once, but my dogs didn't die. Just had horrible diarrhea.
- NtHammer, on 06/29/2009, -0/+2TOTALLY FUNNY EITHER WAY!
- nuketrap, on 06/29/2009, -0/+2You can enjoy chocolate when it's soft
- Indyanna, on 06/29/2009, -0/+2Ooops. My bad.
I was thinking of a malamute.
Sorry. - MrTankJump, on 06/29/2009, -1/+3There is literally zero scientific evidence that chocolate has ever given anyone acne, especially ***** acne. In-fact, multiple studies prove that there is no link between chocolate and acne.
- KJSatz, on 06/29/2009, -0/+2Toblerone ftw.
I ate a 400g bar in two days last week. OM NOM NOM. - waspbr, on 06/29/2009, -0/+2looks like you have never eaten the cacao fruit. Though you wont eat the seeds/beans the fruit itself is quite nice and sweet.
- Altotus, on 06/29/2009, -0/+2Good chocolate doesn't have that much sugar in it. Raw and roasted cocoa nibs are actually quite edible and make a decent snack in their own right. That's not to say that unsweetened chocolate or chocolate liquor isn't bitter -- it is. But it doesn't take much sugar at all to make it palatable.
- bipolarruledout, on 06/29/2009, -0/+2Of course your going to get dugg down but hershey's really isn't very good....but they're high end darks are passable if a little bland.
- thegrantman, on 06/29/2009, -0/+2@waspbr
You've never had your way with a hollow chocolate rabbit, have you? -
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