Comments on: American Chocolate Week Giveaway

By: Lauren

Lauren — Fri, 01 Apr 2011 23:53:24 +0000

I love chocolate. More specifically I love candy bars, which I have been collecting the wrappers from the ones I eat for about 5 years, and now have over 300 of them. I even give my friends money to buy me candy when they travel to different countries.

I have also written research papers about the benefits of eating chocolate in high school and in college, and later this semester I will be presenting how chocolate is made to the food processing class I’m in.

By: stephen

stephen — Thu, 31 Mar 2011 01:33:28 +0000

Occasionally we drive up to Canada for the sole purpose of buying chocolate. The chocolate in Canada is formulated differently and it just seems to taste better. My favorite bar is dark chocolate with whole roasted hazelnuts. And we always buy a few random bars just to try. I’m pretty sure I’ve had every Cadbury product by now.

By: Aaron

Aaron — Tue, 29 Mar 2011 07:53:09 +0000

What’s been striking me lately is how my chocolate tastes have evolved. I used to love regular old store bars but now I almost cringe when I have a Snickers. I need better and weirder chocolate now to be excited by sweets. Good timing, since the 2000s apparently are the age of chocolate covered fava beans.

By: Catherine

Catherine — Tue, 29 Mar 2011 03:21:07 +0000

My favorite chocolate memory: when I was 6, my health-nut mom bought several different kinds of chocolate hazelnut spread and had us blind taste test them all, comparing until we settled on a favorite.

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By: patrick

patrick — Mon, 28 Mar 2011 00:52:28 +0000

I travel a lot, so I try to pick up new and unique chocolates to bring back for my family. My wife gets a kick out of it b/c its something fun, and I love surprising her with fun things

By: Meredith

Meredith — Sun, 27 Mar 2011 23:18:16 +0000

my brother once sent me a whole case of british chocolate bars for my birthday. that was an awesome birthday.

By: Taras

Taras — Sun, 27 Mar 2011 04:37:52 +0000

As most cherished collections or unique experiences my chocolophilia was subtle, unintentional, and hardly noticeable. An innocent bite here, a recommendation there, before long a size-able portion of my time and conversations all turned to chocolate; it was like Godwin’s Law (only with chocolate!) ie- given enough time in a discussion with me, chocolate will be mentioned! I’ve run up and down the streets of San Francisco looking for Smarties as per a British friend’s fond chocolate memories, drove to various Whole Foods (NY/NJ) to find Grenada Dark Chocolate, and stopped into EVERY chocolatier I saw in Vienna with my mother just to see what was different. Through it all this ‘addiction’ has left me with: a cherished collection of memories, unique experiences, and new friends made along the way. Do I ever: Feel the need to CUT DOWN? no. ANNOYED by people criticizing my chocolate habit? no. GUILTY for consuming chocolate: no. Need chocolate as an EYEOPENER: occasionally (CAGE assessment=chocoholic)

By: meredith

meredith — Sun, 27 Mar 2011 00:33:16 +0000

i absolutely adore chocolate – and my favorite recipe is short rib ragu with chocolate to help add some sweetness to the savory. I love to search for new uses of chocolate, and I like to have a stash on hand at all times

By: Heather L

Heather L — Sat, 26 Mar 2011 17:17:46 +0000

I’m such a chocoholic that for my 18th birthday, my high school choir gave me a massive box of candy bars. They’d each bought me 3 or 4 candy bars, so it ended up being 70+. They lasted months.

By: amy

amy — Sat, 26 Mar 2011 03:41:03 +0000

O chocolate how I love thee
luscious, creamy, and sweet
how I recall so fondly
the chocolate bar with heat.

The chilis come on slowly
with the sweet melt of the bar.
As the heat does surely linger,
I feel I need some more.