Everybody wants a box of chocolates

[venta]

OK, I want opinions on chocolate.

Now, as previously discussed with some of you, I'm not an enormous fan of chocolate. Sure, I like it, but I don't really hold it in the kind of reverence that many do. It's a niceish, sweet tasting thing - sadly not the extreme sensual experience which some people seem to find it (and do they really, or are they just exaggerating ?)

So, what I want to know: how much chocolate is too much ? How many people actually don't think there is such a thing as too much ? People who are allergic/intolerant to chocolate (hello, half my family) are a different case. Would anyone seriously claim to be addicted to chocolate ?

For reference, I've eaten a Tw*x and two Cadbury's Roses in the last hour, and am now feeling distinctly queasy about the whole experience. Should have stopped after the Tw*x, really, but when someone hands anything edible round I eat some on reflex.

Update: is there any mileage in the idea that extreme dedication to the eating of chocolate is a female thing ? A quick mental survey of blokes of my acquaintance suggests "no", but some people seem to believe it quite firmly.

Comments

Chocolate varieties

[leathellin.livejournal.com]

Dark bitter chocolate is wonderful and like coffee but you don't want to eat too much of it. Milk chocolate is kind of well sweet gooey stuff that is okay really and white chocolate misses the point.
Milk chocolates with nuts in are better than other milk chocolate because nut goes with milk chocolate for some reason.

Re: Chocolate varieties

[lathany.livejournal.com]

and white chocolate misses the point

Although people who both like and are allergic to chocolate (my father-in-law, for example) can eat white chocolate. They say that it's better than nothing.

Besides I like the stuff. Particularly in large cookies.

Re: Chocolate varieties

[triskellian]

I'm with leathellin (except that I'm not all that keen on the taste of coffee, which probably makes me a philistine or something ;-)

(Oh god, this is a 'me too' post. Are me toos allowed when it's data points you're after?)

Re: Chocolate varieties

[lathany.livejournal.com]

except that I'm not all that keen on the taste of coffee, which probably makes me a philistine or something ;-)

Yep, it does.

;-) (too).

Re: Chocolate varieties

[venta.livejournal.com]

No they're not if you're not answering any of the questions :)

I want to know, assortedly, how much is too much, whether you'd consider it addictive, and whether boys like it too. Me-tooing that you prefer dark to white is no use at all.

Bah :)

Re: Chocolate varieties

[leathellin.livejournal.com]

Well if it is white then obviously the point is that any is too much and although dark chocolate is lovely I don't really want to eat more than a few Lindt squares at a time.
Addictive in the case of chocolate is I think more of a mental thing than a physical thing.
I think that of course boys like it too it's just that girls whinging about being on a diet are much more likely to comment on how much they wish they could eat some.

Re: Chocolate varieties

[triskellian]

Sorry - implicit question answering there ;-)

Too much = any more than a little bit of dark chocolate (not cos I don't like it, but because it's a bit overwhelming)

Too much = a moderate amount of milk (it's not overwhelming, but it's just not that exciting)

Too much = a slightly larger moderate amount of milk-with-nuts

("A moderate amount", incidentally, is at most two normal-sized chocolate bars. And only that much if I'm in an especially chocolate-craving mood. I think I eat the equivalent of maybe one bar a week, and am perfectly satisfied.)

Too much = any white chocolate. Why bother? (Unless it's Lindt white-with-coconut)

For the last two questions, I present bateleur as defence exhibit A.

Re: Chocolate varieties

[uitlander]

Indeed. Pure dark chocolate is the food of the gods, and should be treated with appropriate reverence.