This Charles William Post is consecrate to all my fellow chocoholic Flossers , who might dare strive to salute 50 cup of umber a daylight as Montezuma , the Aztec king , was order to do . Or just anyone who care to have a slight cocoa here and there . Happy Valentine ’s Day !
" ¢ There are , of line , several mixed bag of chocolate rate from milk to very dark . So - call " blanched chocolate " ( can you sense my coffee snobbery ? ) is n’t cocoa in the technical sense , since it ’s be of cocoa butter , pelf and milk , but no genuine cocoa solidness .
" ¢ obtain just the good consistency that " melts in your mouth and not in your handwriting " can be difficult . The thawing point of drinking chocolate butter is just below the human body temperature – explaining why it literallymelts in your mouth .
" ¢ Legend has it that Forrest Mars , Senior met soldiers in the Spanish polite war eating chocolates covered in a hard shell that prevented them from run . The inspiration paid off , and M&Ms became apopular snackfor soldiers in WWII .
" ¢ Besides being a pleasant-tasting and occasionally effete treat , umber has plenty of other economic value . It canfuel a car , be used as fake blood ( like in the shower scene in Psycho ) , work as aband - aid(er , sorta ) , and peradventure even helpstop global thawing . Did I also note sealed varieties have been shown to reduce the risk ofheart diseaseand helped aid in the conception of themicrowave ?
" ¢ Though Richard Cadbury came up with the first center forge box in the 1860s , and much of Valentine ’s day is about the familiar heart symbolisation since , some may choose a chocolate heart that ’s a mo more … anatomically correct .
" ¢ More evidence of the impending Robot Revolution , and the kind of confect they will enjoy : Mars , IBM , and the Department of Agriculture have teamed up to sequence and canvass the entirecocoa genomein the hopes of unleash a impregnable , disease - tolerant , genetically superscript coca plant !
" ¢ If you simply ca n’t get enough coffee , inspect " Chocolate Covered February " in Hershey , PA . But ensure your misstep includes the Hotel Hershey ChocolateSpa " “ whipped cocoa bath , alternative of a chocolate dome polish or Chocolate Sugar Scrub , and 50 - min Cocoa Massage and lunch . No matter how much you enjoy chocolate though , you still might not want to getstuck in a vatof it .
" ¢ Those of you in the Boston area may need to consume some chocolate in ordering to activate your serotonin levels , because atax on sweetsmight be come - watch out !
What are some of your favourite kinds of chocolate , Flossers ? Any that you contemn ? I ’m a dark deep brown missy myself - at least 60 % drinking chocolate for me to even discover it suitable of consumption !
" ˜Dietribes ' appears every other Wednesday . solid food photos aim byJohanna Beyenbach . You might remember that name from our post about hercolorful dieting .
