Chocolate

[TC]

I wondered who would be the first to look at this post - it would have to be a lady member.  Anyway, today has been the ideal Summer's day.  Wall to wall sunshine, a gentle breeze and a temperature of 23c.  Coming back from a trip down the coast, my lady wife suggested that we stop at a fancy ice cream parlour for some ice cream.  This is a fancy place that make their own ice-cream, chocolates and patisseries  - they have a French cook and choclatier(correct spelling?). The ice cream was good and the chocolates looked highly desirable.  On the way out, I came upon this notice.  This is open for discussion !

[bulborum]

My wife says that I am a man

Roland

[Maggi Young]

....and I was away eating some reconstituted beans of happiness.......

[alpines]

Chocolate....whether ground from beans, or not........ is definitely happiness.

[angie]

Chocolate....whether ground from beans, or not........ is definitely happiness.

I second that. I am at my happiest when eating chocolate. But don't ask me to share.

Angie

[jandals]

Hi . My name is jandals ( not my real name ) and I am a recovering chocoholic . It took me many years to face up to my addiction and even longer to build up the courage to tell others . I have been in and out of rehab many times . Choc ... its no good , I can't even say the word . It drags me down whenever I feel free of its cocoa bonds . Peppermint , duo , mousse .. it has many guises . It even covers my raisins and some of my biscuits . I can't escape  , it's everywhere I turn ,
and this week ... .Well, this week , in Dunedin, its the annual Cadbury cho  ah chcl it festival . Whilst all and sundry are having fun racing jaffas down the worlds steepest street and learning how to sculpt the unscrupulous brown stuff , I sit at home tormented by thoughts of drowning in a pool of a sweet sticky mess of hazelnut supreme.
This festival is always a difficult time for me . This year my team of counsellors had a great idea . Distraction is what I needed apparently . "Why don't you sign up with an online interest group . A group that has nothing to do with cho .. clte .. it . Perhaps a gardening group " . What a good idea I thought . I will rejoin the SRGC because there is no way they will have topic such as chc .,. clte .. arrgh   it .
So here I am, shot by both sides . The festival and the forum . Thats it . Back to chocolate for me and its all your fault !!!!!   

[Lesley Cox]

In spite of the Festival and in spite of having two runners in the Jaffa Race, I have my own addiction almost under control. I can now eat only HALF the packet of mallowpuffs in one sitting, leaving the other half until other persons are out of the house. I tried bitter chocolate in the hope it would be so unpalatable it would have the effect of turning me away but no, I quickly learned to make it into a sauce with brown sugar and cream and pour it generously over ice-cream. I am now able to make this sauce in small quantities so that I can have only one helping at a time. So I feel I'm doing very well and will soon have conquered my problem.

In view of the fact we are both from Dunedin Jandals, perhaps we should start a mutual support group?

Funny, I would have sworn it would be the Global Moderator who started this thread.

[jandals]

In view of the fact we are both from Dunedin Jandals, perhaps we should start a mutual support group?

Yep , you're on . One condition , we have some of your yummy chocolate cake

[Lesley Cox]

Still waiting for the guy to bring the new oven and wire it in. But anyway, aren't we supposed to support each other NOT to eat chocolate?

[angie]

Went into Thortons( chocolate shop ) to buy a box of chocolates for my neighbour and when I got to the till to pay for my £6.99 box of chocolates the lady said if you pay £10 you get a bag with three boxes of chocolates and  a few more goodies, guess what I did 

Angie

[alpines]

But anyway, aren't we supposed to support each other NOT to eat chocolate?

Who agreed to that Lesley? Certainly wasn't me. 

[bulborum]

You payed £6.99



Roland

[angie]

I did but do you believe me. Roland love that big grin 

Angie

[alpines]

Went into Thortons( chocolate shop ) to buy a box of chocolates for my neighbour and when I got to the till to pay for my £6.99 box of chocolates the lady said if you pay £10 you get a bag with three boxes of chocolates and  a few more goodies, guess what I did 

Angie

One of the downsides to emigrating is there's always someone who wants to remind you of just what you're missing. Thorntons........Ahhhhhhhhhh...they are THE best !!!!

[bulborum]