That being, the willingness to sell your soul for a chocolate. How about it, how many of you ladies Love chocolate? How many of you guys do, and if you do are you "Mormon"?
As I mentioned on the Lent thread, I intend to give up sweets starting Monday. But the main problem will be chocolate. I think I may pick up a dozen Krispy Kreme this afternoon too. I guess this may sound absolutely horrific if you are currently observing Lent, so I apologize. Just pretend I wrote this a month and a half ago.
Posted by digging_holes (Member # 6237) on :
I am not a mormon, and I am not a girl, and I love chocolate, especially when it's shaped like bunnies.
Posted by Derrell (Member # 6062) on :
It's not a girl thing, or a Mormon thing, it's a chocolate thing. MMM! chocolate bunnies.
Posted by Eruve Nandiriel (Member # 5677) on :
ooooooh...chocolate! *goes off to eat M&Ms*
Posted by JonnyNotSoBravo (Member # 5715) on :
How can you think only Ladies or Mormons love chocolate after watching Charlie and the Chocolate Factory? Did you not see (or read) about Augustus Gloop? I assure you, he was neither a Lady nor Mormon.
Given popular culture's portrayal of women's infatuation with chocolate, perhaps often implying it's a substitute for sex, I understand from whence that notion came. But the Mormon thing just seems out of left field...
Posted by UTAH (Member # 5032) on :
I think it's a chocolate thing . . . Looks in the cupboard for the 5th time in the last hour to find any hidden morsels . . .
Posted by digging_holes (Member # 6237) on :
You're right, the connection between Mormons and chocolate has me baffled.
Posted by Dobbie (Member # 3881) on :
Now THAT might be soulworthy.
Posted by Ralphie (Member # 1565) on :
It must a Mormon thing. I've never even HEARD of 'chocolate'.
Oh, wai-
Posted by Shigosei (Member # 3831) on :
I love chocolate. Especially dark chocolate. So it may be a female thing, but it's not just a mormon thing.
Posted by mr_porteiro_head (Member # 4644) on :
It must be an impulse shopping thing. If you look carefully on Ebay, you can get a lot of chocolate AND meat for the price of one soul. Posted by kacard (Member # 200) on :
[ April 10, 2004, 05:51 PM: Message edited by: kacard ]
Posted by captainmoriar (Member # 6416) on :
I think chocolate does have something that causes the brain to release some sex-like signals but I'm not sure on that or where I heard it.
Posted by dangermom (Member # 1676) on :
I love chocolate. Not because I'm Mormon, though.
But for those who are confused about the association, I have found that Mormon women can out-consume anyone in the chocolate area. Some of them scare even me--and I dip my own chocolates. I think it's because we aren't allowed any other vices... Posted by luthe (Member # 1601) on :
Perhaps it is the THC content of chocolate?
Edit to add: yeah I know it takes an incredible amount of chocolate to get high from. Just a joke.
[ April 10, 2004, 06:31 PM: Message edited by: luthe ]
Posted by pooka (Member # 5003) on :
Wondering what kat's link was originally titled.
I was thinking more in terms of it being a permissable vice. What actually started this train of thought is that I was at the store last night and there were "masculine gift baskets" on display. The baskets were moss and redwood colored, with items such as trout-shaped picture frames, soccer ball clocks, and coffee mugs in them. After we got to the parking lot I realized I hadn't even noticed if there was any chocolate in them. And I asked my husband if all men really even like chocolate.
Posted by Telperion the Silver (Member # 6074) on :
Mmmmmmm... dark chocolate is the best. And that's from an agnostic ex-Catholic gay boy.
Posted by Synesthesia (Member # 4774) on :
I love dark chocolate. I wish someone would leave me a basket of it in front of my door. Ghiradelli dark chocolate Dove...
Posted by Da_Goat (Member # 5529) on :
I think it's a human thing.
Posted by Ralphie (Member # 1565) on :
quote:Mmmmmmm... dark chocolate is the best. And that's from an agnostic ex-Catholic gay boy
Oh, so it's a gay thing.
Crap. Now I have to question my orientation again.
Posted by beverly (Member # 6246) on :
Synth, I'd send you some. Mmmmm, Dove truffle eggs....
Posted by Synesthesia (Member # 4774) on :
Really? Dark truffle eggs? That would make me happy to tbe point of exploding... Even milk ones would make me happy.. IT'S CHOCOLATE!!!! *updated profile*
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Posted by skillery (Member # 6209) on :
We get those bags of Hershey's miniatures, and my wife eats everything but the Special Darks. She doesn't know what she's missing.
Dark chocolate is better than that "one thing."
Posted by Narnia (Member # 1071) on :
I like chocolate in the form of gooey ice cream with chocolate nuts and chocolate covered nuts.
I like chocolate in solid form at any time.
I like chocolate on the Dairy Queen dipped cones. That really is the best part about a dipped cone, isn't it? I mean, who really wants the ice cream?
Yes. Easter has the best chocolate of all the holidays. It's saddening that Cadbury only comes out once a year. Cadbury mini eggs, Cadbury cream eggs....I have been trying to abstain this year and I have done a lot better...but I have definitely partaken of my share.
Oh, and I'm Mormon and female if that makes a difference. Posted by suntranafs (Member # 3318) on :
Well I'm extremely attachached to being a male, but i might be willing to become a mormon for chocolate. Oh, I know, I could be dual-sex would that work? Posted by plaid (Member # 2393) on :
Another non-Mormon guy for chocolate
Especially dark chocolate
Especially Cloud 9 Oregon Red Raspberry Dark Chocolate. Wow. It's ambrosial.
Posted by plaid (Member # 2393) on :
Does anyone else ever get intense dreams from chocolate? If I eat chocolate too late in the evening, I get really strange and creative dreams. They're very interesting... but it doesn't make for very restful sleep, and so I usually try to avoid it...
Posted by Son_of_Priam (Member # 6411) on :
Chocolate is the best. they make these new chocolate hershey's kisses with caramel inside of 'em, they are awe inspiring! I once had a dream that there were hundreds of them jumping on my stomach yelling "Let our people free" it was hilarious.
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Posted by pooka (Member # 5003) on :
Skillery, she may just be a dark chocolate snob. Dove dark is a lot smoother than Special Dark. I usually prefer milk over dark, but I like Dove dark. But I will eat Special Dark if it's the only game in town. I've not yet crossed the line into going to the store in the middle of the night for chocolate. Because I also needed a plastic utility knife. P.S. This google ad is so lame. It's trying to sell me some Mormonism. But I guess I'm glad it's not trying to sell us girls.
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Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
I made three dessert-type things for Passover so far: a toffee-crunch which was covered in melted chocolate, almond cookies (no chocolate), and brownies. And my brothers ate at least as much of 'em as we womenfolk.
C'mon, it's CHOCOLATE! *drools*
Posted by skillery (Member # 6209) on :
Pooka: I wonder why the Google box picked LDS Singles instead of chocolate. The webmaster must be able to pre-set the keywords for the search, and there must be a heirarchy to the search, because I've seen the ads change as new, more favored words entered the thread.
I don't understand why the webmaster didn't put the word "chocolate" at the top of the list. Maybe the webmaster is the Lord, and we should take a clue that chocolate only ranks second on the list of most important things.
Posted by Stan the man (Member # 6249) on :
Peanut M&Ms. Almond Hershey Kisses. Mackinac Island Fudge is the best.
Posted by skillery (Member # 6209) on :
Stan: I like peanut M&Ms too, but once in awhile there's a nasty peanut in there. So I suck the chocolate off and then visually inspect the peanut. Hard to do during a movie, so I take a flashlight.
Posted by fugu13 (Member # 2859) on :
its mostly automated, skillery. The webmaster can specify certain things be excluded, but it basically just picks up on keywords of interest and shows a randomly selected ad based on them.
Posted by Scott R (Member # 567) on :
Chocolate bunnies are an abomination.
I ate a piece of one of my children's bunnies this morning-- it tasted like chalk.
Bleh.
Posted by ak (Member # 90) on :
I'm a fool for Hershey's Special Dark. Dark chocolate is so much better than milk chocolate, isn't it? But now you're telling me the fat in chocolate may raise HDL? Wow! If I could find some artificially sweetened dark chocolate, it might even change from a forbidden food to something that's good for me!
(I always thought it was a girl thing, but hey, who knows? I'm both so you can't use me to distinguish.)
Posted by Boon (Member # 4646) on :
I just checked several of the threads...the ads are based on the title of the thread, not the content as far as I can tell.
Mmmm...Godiva. Hershey's is fine, but Godiva is heaven!
Posted by plaid (Member # 2393) on :
What are the ads that folks talk about?
I use Opera and Internet Explorer, and don't see anything using them...
Posted by Kasie H (Member # 2120) on :
plaid,
The Google ads alllll the way down at the bottom of the page. They're sort of easy to miss.
Stan,
quote:Mackinac Island Fudge
You said it, man. *drools*
Chocolate is *definitely* not just a Mormon thing. I am absolutely *addicted* to those little Dove Promises. Sooooo good. Usually I get milk chocolate, but their dark chocolate is also to die for....
My Mom rocks... *breaks out the Easter chocolate that arrived yesterday*
Posted by plaid (Member # 2393) on :
Um, nope, I'm scrolling all the way to the bottom in both Opera and Internet Explorer and don't see anything.
Hmm, and I used the search function and it lists a thread called "Forum ads..." that I can't get to.
*Looks very suspiciously at Google ad mentioners*
Posted by Dragon (Member # 3670) on :
<-- non-morman female
Dark chocolate is the most amazing stuff in the universe! (it's interesting how almost everyone in this thread has said they like dark as much or more than milk...)
my word of the day - ambrosial
(we ought to have a :drool: smilie...)
Posted by Kasie H (Member # 2120) on :
You know, it would be *just like* Bill Gates to write IE so it didn't recognize Google ad placements. All this talk about him getting in the search game late....
Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
I'm using IE and I see the ads. And they change as the thread progresses, so it can't be JUST the thread title. In fact, some of them seem entirely based on content -- like the Jewish dating ads in the Clinton/Hatch/proxy baptism thread.
As far as types of chocolate go, dark is nice, but milk chocolate -- at least, GOOD milk chocolate -- is way better!
Posted by Synesthesia (Member # 4774) on :
Like what sorts of milk chocolate? Dang... I can't wait till Wednesday so I can get some post Easter Chocolate... *longs for chocolate*
Posted by beverly (Member # 6246) on :
Synesthesia, you know I would so love to eat a Dove dark chocolate truffle egg, but for some reason they aren't selling them around here! The only ones I have seen are the milk chocolate. They are pretty darn good, but I sure could go for a dark chocolate one. Dove truffle eggs are hard to find in general around here.
I honestly don't understand why they aren't wildly popular. The thing that really bugs, though, they used to have the two halfs of a whole egg, but now they just sell a half-egg truffle that is approximately 3/4 the size of the full egg. Then they sell them for the same price. I'm being ripped off! And yet I still buy them....
Posted by Dagonee (Member # 5818) on :
Non-mormon, non-female, love dark chocolate. Very dark chocolate. Mmmmmmmmm.
And the ad on this page is now for a LDS dating service.
Dagonee
Posted by beverly (Member # 6246) on :
Ad at the bottom of page: "Mormon? Get paid $75!" Supposedly they will pay you to fill out a survey. Wow, how generous of them.
Posted by Eruve Nandiriel (Member # 5677) on :
Dark chocolate...blah! Milk chocolate is best! Posted by Synesthesia (Member # 4774) on :
Milk is too sweet. I'm getting old and don't like sweet things as much. I like the delicate combination of sweet and bitter... The interplay of flavours But somehow cadbury dark is not as good as Ghiradelli dark... Which i wish I had in pure dark no nuts no fruit or junk form.
Posted by tt&t (Member # 5600) on :
<--- Non-conforming non-mormon girl.
Chocolate... meh. It's all very good and well occasionally. I mean, I like it and stuff. White, then milk, then dark, probably. But I get sick of it easily (far more easily than I used to, interestingly enough) and I haven't even opened my Easter eggs yet. It's midnight, Monday, here.
I guess I'm a freak.
O, but I don't think liking chocolate is a girl thing at all. My sisters all like chocolate, sure, but so does my brother, and I think Dad likes it at least equally if not more, and my boyfriend likes it way more than I do. So do most of my friends... Hmm. Yeah, I'd say the sexes are equal on this one.
Posted by breyerchic04 (Member # 6423) on :
Chocolate rules the world and should be given its own religion so that we can celebrate it the way it deserves. I am a girl but not mormon and I probably don't go a day without it.
Posted by Eaquae Legit (Member # 3063) on :
Would everyone be shocked to learn that I'm not a huge chocolate fan? I mean, I like it and all, but it can't be pure. I can't handle solid milk chocolate (dark is too bitter and I have a harder time with it anyway). I had to threaten bodily harm to my poor mother to get her to stop buying those d*** chocolate easter bunnies. If there's something to break up the chocolate, even just rice crisps, it's different and I'm fine. But my vices run more in the direction of gummy sweets and berries (the real kind of berries - strawberries ARE candy, mmmmmm).
[edit] <---- Catholic Girl [/edit]
[ April 12, 2004, 12:10 PM: Message edited by: Eaquae Legit ]
Posted by romanylass (Member # 6306) on :
quote:Chocolate rules the world and should be given its own religion so that we can celebrate it the way it deserves
Interestingly, the active compound in chocolate, the one that makes you feel like you're in love, is theobromine which translates to "gift of God" (godds if you prefer).
My Lutheran church has a "Chocolate Sunday" every year. Ity is a fundraiser for youth missions and corresponds with the last day on Sunday School ( in case you forgot to get your kids teacher a gift). The pastor actually wears a Hershey's stole.
I love chocolate. Only dark though, no nuts or anything. Although I made some peanut butter eggs for Easter and they were quite yummy (Adam;s peanut butter and brown sugar for the filling, dipped in melted Ghirardelli double chocolate chips.) Also made some dark chocolate coconut haystacks. Didn't make truffles this time though, ran out of money. My favorite bars- Terra Nostra Organic Dark Truffle and Dagoba New Moon 74%. Divine.
Posted by Audeo (Member # 5130) on :
mmmm...chocolate. After reading this thread I'm very glad I have some from easter. I got a pouch of Ghirardelli's squares. Ghirardelli's dark chocolate is absolutely the best. For Christmas I got Ghirardelli's dark chocolate with mint filling, sigh....there's just no words to describe it. I savored every bite. I enjoy all kinds though. Even the cheap Easter bunny chocolate, though the dark stuff is best. BTW Ghirardelli's has a website that's pretty neat. Ghirardelli chocolate And we really don't need a religion, I mean we already have a whole holiday devoted to chocolate, sure some folks confuse eggs, bunnies, and something about Christ, but really it's about chocolate. There's a similar one in October, though it's more nondenominational and simply celebrates all candy, but chocolate plays a big role. For the record I am mormon and female, but even my non-mormon brothers and male friends enjoy chocolate, so it isn't just gender or religion, well except for being a religion of its own.
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