Wendy wrote,
> On Thu, 11 Nov 2004 22:32:21 GMT, "Peter T. Daniels"
> > wrote:
>
> >Wendy of NJ wrote:
> >>
> >> On Thu, 11 Nov 2004 17:59:43 GMT, "Peter T. Daniels"
> >> > wrote:
> >>
> >> >Wendy of NJ wrote:
> >> >>
> >> >> On 11 Nov 2004 00:41:39 -0800,
> >> >> (neurocratic malfunction) wrote:
> >> >>
> >> >> >over the weekend, i decided to be a little fancy and bought some
> >> >> >imported european chocolate cuz i heard it's so much better than
> >> >> >american stuff.
> >> >> >
> >> >> >bullshit. american stuff is much better. hershey almond is the best.
> >> >>
> >> >> I used to agree with you (but it had to be DARK chocolate), but then,
> >> >> a colleague came back from Eruope with some French chocolates. OMFG.
> >> >> The only thing that supassed that was sex. (and only really GOOD sex).
> >> >
> >> >Wait'll you find out about Belgian!
> >> >
> >> >(And the readily available Godiva isn't considered the best over there.)
> >>
> >> I find the entire chocolate thing slightly amazing, considering the
> >> amount of processing it takes to convert cocoa/cacao to chocolate (and
> >> that someone figured out how to do it in the 17th century).
Actually it was done much early by the Meso-Americans. The Spanish
imperialists/colonialists stole it and didn't begin to change it to a
modern form. Modern chocolate dates from the late 19th- early 20
century
and before that you had a form of chocolate drink that was thick and
bitter
requiring intense sweetening to be truely palatable.
> >
> >I'm impressed by butter.
> >
> >And bread.
As ancient as beer.
> >
> >And tapioca.
South Americans Indians discovered it.
> >
> >And soufflé.
> >
> >And meringue.
> >
> >They're all just so inherently implausible -- kind of like, How did the
> >eye evolve?
>
> But, according to current knowledge, the eye evolved independently on
> Earth about 18 different times, and they are all quite similar to each
> other. (OK, maybe it's 4 instead of 18, but still).
Is the compound eye of the insect much like the eye of a lobster
or the eye of a octopus or squid or the blue eyed mussel or the eye
of a homo sapiens sapiens?
>
> It's like, to me anyway, someone looking at a crab or a lobster and
> thinking this thing could possibly be edible.
But they are edible and have been used as food as early as the
baboons. That is because if you get hungry enough you will try to
eat anything including dirt. Hold it down and pound it with a rock
until it stops struggling and try it in your mouth is the rule for
ambulatory foods. For plants stick it in Mikey's mouth and make
him swallow, if he is alive tomorrow we will all have a feast.
later
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It is by the beans of cocoa that the thoughts acquire speed,
the thighs acquire girth, the girth become a warning.
It is by theobromine alone I set my mind in motion."
--from Someone else's Dune spoof ripped to my taste.