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Walter Bushell
 
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Wendy of NJ > 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).

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


Hunger. Now about oysters and clams! It was a brave (or hungry) man or
belike woman who first ventured upon eating an oyster.

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