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On Thu, 11 Nov 2004 22:32:21 GMT, "Peter T. Daniels"
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>Wendy of NJ wrote:
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>> On Thu, 11 Nov 2004 17:59:43 GMT, "Peter T. Daniels"
>> > wrote:
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>> >Wendy of NJ wrote:
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>> >> 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).

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>I'm impressed by butter.
>
>And bread.
>
>And tapioca.
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>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).

It's like, to me anyway, someone looking at a crab or a lobster and
thinking this thing could possibly be edible.


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