Not a chocoholic

[barondave]

I got three boxes of chocolates for my birthday in April 2005. I gave one away, spent much of the next year going through one of them, and was saving the other for a rainy day. Someone reminded me that chocolate spoils, so I opened the last one and have been eating the contents, no more than two at a time, for months. Today, I ate the last choc. I won't miss them, and have no plans to get more.

For some, chocolate is a powerful, addictive, drug. I tend to avoid sweets in general, successfully avoiding diabetes, and chocolate doesn't do much for me besides taste pleasant.

What's your chocolate story?

Comments

[cari-rose.livejournal.com]

I am allergic, but like it a lot other than that. =)

My mother is defiantly a chocoholic.

[mmagidow.livejournal.com]

I have come to the conclusion that women's fascinating addiction to chocolate is entirely hormone driven. Now that I am past the hump on the menopause adventure, I find that I don't really crave or care so much about the stuff. Of course, it took me quite a while to figure this out, so I keep buying my old favorites out of habit. I recently cleaned out the fridge and found that I had more chocolate that Jeff had film! Almost as much chocolate as non-specific condiments, which took up most of the room in the fridge. So if anyone is craving some really good chocolate, please come over and help me out here.

[hunnythistle.livejournal.com]

Chocolate is good!

But, I'm also something of a food snob. Trapped in a room with cheap, low quality chocolate (meetings and parties that include M&Ms), I'm likely to eat some. However, I'm not going to buy any.

Since the chocolate I buy tends to be expensive, we don't have it around all the time. When I do buy it, it also goes quickly. Generally, a ~2oz gourmet chocolate bar is purchased every 2-3 weeks, and is consumed immediately. It is often shared at least partially with others. An 8 oz box will go in three days -- although 1-2 oz will get eaten by Lee/friends. I don't buy boxes for myself, but occasionally receive them as gifts. I generally buy more flavored chocolate than plain -- currently I'm obsessed with lavender chocolate.

I can't imagine a box of chocolate lasting for months after it is open. If it's good, I'll eat it quickly; if it's not, it gets pawned off during gaming. I suppose a box could be "lost" for a couple of years, hidden in a corner cupboard that I can't reach or see, but that's never happened, AFAIK.

We generally only make dessert for dinner parties, and then it's a toss up between something chocolate and something fruity, usually citrus. I rarely order dessert in restaurants; when I do, it's likelier to be chocolate than anything else. I always order the passionfruit if it's offered. And yes, the B.T. McElrath passionfruit chocolates are fabulous!

My Dad doesn't care much for chocolate, but my Mother obsesses over it. Menopause has had no appreciable affect on my mothers chocolate cravings. Although I have corrupted her to prefer darker, better quality chocolate. Lee only likes good quality chocolate, usually 75% or higher, or white chocolate. He will not stoop to eating the M&Ms, unless trapped in an engine room for 14 hrs straight with no lunch. And it's the only thing in English that the convenience store sells.

[barondave.livejournal.com]

I generally prefer high quality chocolate too, for health reasons as well as taste. The less sugar, the better: bitter is good!

If Lee is also a chocoholic, he could learn to read "chocolate" in other languages...