there's a place downtown that has awesome chocolate and awesome magazines--i need to go there tomorrow for both (yes, my momentary blood glucose scare has passed). the right stuff in sufficient quantities can be had in satisfying quantities without being problematic.Originally Posted by KKM
i have no patience for brown wax sold as food.
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I treat myself to a bar of dark chocolate sweetened with sugar beet juice. 88% cocoa. It is low glycemic as it only has 5mg of sugar carbs per 42 gm half bar. It is not as good as sex, but keeps me satiated, and out of trouble. :yum:
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IDK about there but I have yet to find any chocolate that I like here in Spain. Most of it is made in Belgium and is dark chocolate which is very very bitter. I like milk chocolate...hard to find here. Then again, so is "whole milk". Not a big loss as I dont often eat chocolate.
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You might be able to get Swiss chocolate, Lindt for example. They make some that are sweet and creamy.
In London cinema foyers, after a Walt Disney childrens's film, you'd find on sale "chocolate" animals representing some of Disney's characters. On examination I noted they were the worst kind of "chocolate", seemingly a waxy substance and the label stated "chocolate flavouring". My American friends there promptly refused to let their children eat them.
I'm pleased to report that "Hotel Chocolat" have now expanded with over 70 stores in the UK and 5 in the USA. You get a box of assorted chocolates each month and they're all in pairs so no fighting. This coincides with the introduction of "Slimming World" to the USA.
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Brown wax sold as food? Why that's not wax! No, that Brown 25™ from Uranus Corporation.
"In London cinema foyers, after a Walt Disney childrens's film, you'd find on sale "chocolate" animals representing some of Disney's characters. On examination I noted they were the worst kind of "chocolate", seemingly a waxy substance and the label stated "chocolate flavouring"."
That's Disney marketing for you.
"No, that Brown 25™ from Uranus Corporation."
I see you have discovered the source of the raw material. "Things come out a little different at Uranus."
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Most of our food these days is mostly corn.
Been trying to get away from processed and factory farmed foods as much as possible. Now that I live out in the country once more I can raise my own chickens and rabbits, grow veggies, and seek out farmers for fresh foods that have not been processed and pumped up with medications in order to keep them alive till butcher time.
If you ever visit a feed lot or giant chicken farm, you would never want to buy meat at the store again.
"The further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those that speak it." - George Orwell
They are the best argument for vegetarianism one could ever present.
All the world’s a stage, but obviously the play is unrehearsed and everybody is ad-libbing his lines. Maybe that’s why it’s hard to tell if we’re living in a tragedy or a farce.
Read some of Joel Salatin's books if you have not already. He has been preaching organic and multi-layer farming for years.
He is featured in the documentary "Food Inc." and "Fresh". Good stuff.
"The further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those that speak it." - George Orwell
I've always had my doubts about the claims that are sometimes made about organic produce being nutritionally superior to conventionally-grown stuff but none at all about it being a better method when it comes to long-term sustainability. When I lived in southern Oregon, back in the late Seventies, I had about two acres and raised rabbits and chickens for meat and eggs.
All the world’s a stage, but obviously the play is unrehearsed and everybody is ad-libbing his lines. Maybe that’s why it’s hard to tell if we’re living in a tragedy or a farce.
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