What's your most humorous or interesting account/s, of the most
chocolate that you've ever ate in one sitting (or whatever it is you
were doing).

My best story was a certain incident with dark chocolate pudding with
chocolate whip cream and hot fudge on top. Myself and a friend ate a
batch meant for 40 generous servings. Needless to say after that, we
didn't eat chocolate again for a week.

at Tue, 23 Mar 2004 01:41:29 GMT in
>,
(K_Stafford) wrote :

>What's your most humorous or interesting account/s, of the most
>chocolate that you've ever ate in one sitting (or whatever it is you
>were doing).

I've got "war stories" to fill an entire book. But I think of 3 that really
stand out.

Many Easters ago, at the age of 4, I received one of the most beautiful
Easter presents ever - a chocolate turtle with a hollow shell, in which
were stuffed multiple small chocolate "turtle babies". The whole assembly
was probably pushing 1 lb. Well, I became instantly enamoured of this
creation, and ate the whole thing - in one sitting. This was my first real
experience with chocolate overdose. My, was I sick! My sister, meanwhile,
not a chocolate-lover, got the same thing - and she didn't finish hers
until 3 months later! Not that this experience blunted my passion for
chocolate, and, I have to admit, if I had to do it over again, I'd still do
it. 30 minutes of sheer pleasure are worth 10 hours of sheer torture.

When El Rey first started to distribute to my area, I naturally had to try
it. Well, back then they didn't have retail bars, and so I bought a 1 kg
bar of the Gran Saman. At that time I didn't quite know it was a
considerably stronger 70% chocolate than anybody else's, thanks to a low
cocoa butter content. And I also wasn't really paying attention to how much
I was eating. In any case, I ate the entire bloc. At once. So then I'm
walking up to the local coffee shop (I usually get a coffee about 10 pm or
so). Gradually, I start to feel hyper-energised. Wow, this is great! I'm
virtually flying to the coffee shop. Seems great, for a time, but then 2
hours later, I'm starting to feel dizzy, light-headed. This is wierd. Am I
hyperventilating? Is the oxygen level in the house too low? I decide maybe
I'll take a walk in the fresh air. No, this doesn't improve anything. Now
I'm feeling spacey, out of it, completely disoriented. I got pretty scared.
Is this ever going to end? I had about 4 hours of this before my brain
stopped spinning enough for me to fall asleep. It wasn't until morning that
it was truly gone.

But perhaps the greatest amount of intake, in terms of the main flavour
constituent and of mind-altering chemicals, was the time I made a pane alla
cioccolata (chocolate bread) *entirely* with cocoa, save for the addition
of a small amount of gluten flour. So in the loaf I had perhaps 4 cups of
cocoa. In one sitting, I ate half the loaf! That's 2 cups of pure,
unadulterated cocoa powder. At least after the Gran Saman experience, I
knew what to expect when the first symptoms hit me. Uh-oh. This is going to
be bad. Better open the windows and lie down NOW. It turned out I had to
convalesce for *all* of the next day - the withdrawal wasn't complete until
the following night. Based on this experience, I can conclude that the
claim that Montezuma drank 50 cups of chocolate a day is apocryphal, at
least at face value. It's possible that this number refers to Montezuma and
his court, in which case I could believe the figure, or it could have been
a number claimed for symbolic and ritual purposes - not an actual tally of
how many cups were consumed but simply a sufficiently large number to
indicate that the consumption was huge.

--
Alex Rast

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"Suvrit" > wrote in message
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> wow!!!! the amount of chocolate consumed by alex is truly
astounding......i
> eat just 1 piece of 85% (or higher) every two or three days!
>
> -s

I agree with that!

But I do have a story about my mother, a genuine chocoholic (not a
knowledgeable one, just a chocoholic). She and my grandmother went to visit
the Hershey Chocolate Factory, the original, and acquired a 5 pound bar.
They ate it all in one day, apparently.

John