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Chocolate in peril Posted: 12 months ago by bingo
Is there any treat more decadent, more luxurious than chocolate? Well, it need not be a guilty pleasure - the chocolate you eat was almost certainly grown on small farms in poor countries. When you buy chocolate, you help poor farmers feed their families. It's a start, at least
*Now the bad news...
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Chocolate Week Posted: 1 year ago by pocksucket
Do you love chocolate? Are you in the UK right now? If you answered yes then no you're doing it wrong for from 13th-19th October it is Chocolate Week - a glorious British tradition when eating anything but chocolate is against the law* and all chocolate is free**.
*Might be a lie.
**Y'know, I'm not sure about this one either. It is Chocolate Week though.
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Chocolate Bar In NYC Posted: 3 years ago by musicgirldani
Chocolate By The Bald Man is a new chocolate restaurant opening in NY's Union Square. Everything in the restaurant is made of chocolate. The owner will be opening more in the future.
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How To Make Chocolate Mice Posted: 12 months ago by AutumnLotus
So you want to make chocolate mice, hm?
They're adorable! Let's get started!
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Sold out at £6 per bar… bacon-flavoured chocolate Posted: 1 year ago by AutumnLotus
The unlikely hit Christmas gift is Mo's Bacon Bar, which contains chunks of applewood smoked bacon combined with smoked salt and milk chocolate. At ?5.99 per 3oz bar it is far from a cheap treat, but Selfridges – the only UK stockist – sold its entire stock of several hundred within 48 hours at its four stores and has urgently ordered more.
Where do you keep the stash, Pock?
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Restaurant Dishes Out Chocolate Pizza Posted: 3 years ago by ybne1else
I'm a chocoholic, but I'll pass on that one. As for the ice cream popsicles that come with bowls of melted chocolate, my mouth waters just thinking about it. Check out this chocolate cafe on your next coffee break (and sign up at the gym on your way home!)
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Scientists Explain Source of Chocolate Cravings Posted: 2 years ago by deepcleanfun
If that craving for chocolate sometimes feels like it is coming from deep in your gut, that's because maybe it is.
A small study links the type of bacteria living in people's digestive system to a desire for chocolate.
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The Real Effects Of Chocolate On Health Posted: 1 year ago by Bornbad
Chocoholics, we've been told for the last three years how our drug of choice is so beneficial to our health. "Oh, chocolate is a wonderful anti-oxidant! Eat it! It will keep you healthy," they said.
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Chocolate Club's Chocolate Recipes Posted: 3 years ago by Neiako
Recipes ranging from cakes and candies to cookies and drinks.
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12 Odd & Unusual Chocolate Flavored Items Posted: 1 year ago by AutumnLotus
Here are 12 other chocolate flavored items for chocolate cravings and fantasies.
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I'll Have The Chocolate Coated Pigeon Please Posted: 10 months ago by pocksucket
"Larks' tongues. Wrens' livers. Chaffinch brains. Jaguars' earlobes. Wolf nipple chips. Get 'em while they're hot. They're lovely. Dromedary pretzels, only half a denar. Tuscany fried bats."
Pigeons are often found in and around fountains, but usually the water variety rather than chocolate.
Animal rescue experts had to be called in to save the bird from both the fountain and the gangs of chocolate fiends chasing it.
Although that might be a lie.
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Buy some chocolate Posted: 2 years ago by pocksucket
Cadbury's have come to the conclusion that for the most part, their target market already know what chocolate is and so don't need to waste expensive advertising time telling people.
Following on from the Gorilla here's some airport workers.
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Chocolate Bar Stickers Tell You When to Taste Posted: 2 years ago by mitzuzake
Dars chocolate, a premium Japanese bar, now features a temperature sensing sticker that indicates when "high quality mouth meltiness" has been achieved.
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Hershey's chocolate and a severed arm Posted: 2 years ago by Hoosker
Two things that don't go together, Unlike the chocolate and peanut butter in "Reese's Peanut Butter Cups"
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Fashion, Superheroes, and Chocolate! Posted: 1 year ago by maven
The 11th Annual Chocolate Show is this weekend, including a chocolate fashion show! This year, former Project Runway designers and celebrity pastry chefs joined forces to create pieces under the theme of Superheroes!
More pics in comments
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Big Brother Messes With Chocolate Posted: 3 years ago by VooDooPeacock
. . . and people get mad. Crazy mad.
Basically, the FDA is considering changing the requiremants for chocolate, allowing vegetable fat substitutes in place of cocoa butter, which will affect the taste of what's considered "real" chocolate.
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Lenny, The Chocolate Moose Posted: 3 years ago by Neiako
The World's Only Life-Size Chocolate Moose! Made of 1,700 pounds of fine milk chocolate, unveiled July 1, 1997.
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Eat more chocolate and help the environment Posted: 2 years ago by AutumnLotus
Chocoholics can assuage any guilt they may feel after a new process was developed that turns the by-products of making chocolate into a biofuel -- meaning you can eat your chocolate and be eco-friendly.
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Chocolate Covered Ants Posted: 2 years ago by sholom22
Ingredients –
100 Live Black Ants (avoid red ants, their too spicy)
1 vanilla bean split and seeds scraped out
2 Egg Yolks
1 Tbsp. Sugar
1 tsp. Butter, melted
12 oz. Bittersweet Chocolate
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Wanted: volunteers to eat chocolate every day for a year in the name of science Posted: 4 months ago by AutumnLotus
Scientists from the University of East Anglia are searching for volunteers to eat chocolate every day for a year.
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