Saturday, February 7, 2009

Chocolate Wisdom


Good Living is an act of intelligence,by which we choose things which have an agreeable taste rather than those which do not.


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Strength is the capacity to break a chocolate bar into four pieces with your bare hands - and then eat just one of the pieces


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Giving chocolate to others is an intimate form of communication, a sharing of deep, dark secrets


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A chocolate in the mouth is worth two on the plate.


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There's nothing better than a good friend, except a good friend with CHOCOLATE


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Chocolate causes certain endocrine glands to secrete hormones that affect your feelings and behavior by making you happy. Therefore, it counteracts depression, in turn reducing the stress of depression. Your stress-free life helps you maintain a youthful disposition, both physically and mentally.


So, eat lots of chocolate!


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Forget love-- I'd rather fall in chocolate!!!


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I never met a chocolate I didn't like.


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EMERGENCY ALERT: If wearer of this shirt is found vacant, listless, or depressed, ADMINISTER CHOCOLATE IMMEDIATELY.


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This guy found a bottle on the ocean, and he opened it and out popped a genie, and he gave him three wishes. The guy wished for a million dollars, and poof! there was a million dollars. Then he wished for a convertible, and poof! there was a convertible. And then, he wished he could be irresistible to all women... poof!


he turned into a box of chocolates.


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It's not that chocolates are a substitute for love. Love is a substitute for chocolate.


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Chocolate is, let's face it, far more reliable than a man.


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All I really need is love, but a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt!


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Chemically speaking, chocolate really is the world's perfect food.


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Put the chocolate in the bag and nobody gets hurt.


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I have this theory that chocolate slows down the aging process.... It may not be true, but do I dare take the chance?


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I am a serious chocoholic. For the serious chocoholic, chocolate is better than sex. If you believe that, you REALLY need to meet that special someone who can change your mind. If you HAVE met that special someone and still believe that, I REALLY NEED to know where you get your chocolate!!!


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Don't wreck a sublime chocolate experience


by feeling guilty.


Chocolate isn't like premarital sex.


It will not make you pregnant.


And it always feels good.


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Life is like a box of chocolates -


you never know what you're going to get.


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If life is like a box of chocolates,


then its time for me to buy another box,


I seemed to have already devoured all the good ones!


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Life is like a box of chocolates,


the best ones are half eaten!!


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In the beginning, the Lord created chocolate,


and he saw that it was good.


Then he separated the light from the dark,


and it was better.


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Chocolate in the morning is what makes


moms get through their day!


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Man cannot live on chocolate alone; but woman sure can.


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Researchers have discovered that chocolate produced


some of the same reactions in the brain as marijuana.


The researchers also discovered other


similarities between the two,


but can't remember what they are.


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All of the evil that people have thrust upon chocolate


is really more deserved by milk chocolate,


which is essentially contaminated.


The closer you get to a pure chocolate liquor


(the chocolate essence ground from roasted cacao beans)


the purer it is, the more satisfying it is,


the safer it is, and the healthier it is.


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... the taste of chocolate is a sensual pleasure in itself,


existing in the same world as sex...


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For myself, I can enjoy the wicked


pleasure of chocolate...


entirely by myself.


Furtiveness makes it better.


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Simply put... everyone has a price,


mine is chocolate!


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choco alchemist

"It is dark as the Alchemist walks along the corridor,
rough stone under his feet,
air warmed from well smoldering hearth
fires stirring his cowl.

He opens a hewn timber door,
worn smooth at the threshold over years of use.

He breathes deeply the comforting smells of this laboratory.

Hints of wood and smoke linger in the air
from the last time he roasted raw materials
for his elixirs.

Another smell, heady and almost intoxicating,
brings a smile to his face as he remembers
the smell wafting up as he was last grinding
his pastes and powders.

He looks about.

Everything is in place.

The roasting drum is cool in the hearth.

The mortars and pestles are laid out neat and tidy,
only a small amount of deep brown paste
marring their finish.

The cracking mill is sitting ready,
waiting for the next batch to be crushed
fresh out of the roaster.

It is time to begin his magic,
his devotion, his passion,
his Alchemy, yet again.

He prepares himself for the work ahead.

The roasting, the cracking,
the winnowing, the grinding,
the mixing.

The transformation of base materials into
something more than they were.

The transformation of cocoa beans to chocolate,
the work of Chocolate Alchemy."