My west coast brother has informed me that today is "National Chocolate Covered Anything Day." Anything??? I don't think so. First of all, just to clear things up, I readily admit that I am a chocolate lover, especially dark chocolate and I know that chocolate is good for me. It is after all made from a vegetable. Beans are vegetables, and chocolate comes from cocoa beans so it's a vegetable, probably even a health food. It is also, as every thinking person knows, it's own basic food group. I'm sure it was somewhere in that food pyramid that we learned about in science class when I was in elementary school. But, coming back to today's topic - chocolate covered anything??? I don't think so. Strawberries, bananas, marshmallows dipped in chocolate, yes of course, that's fine. Many kinds of nuts and peanut butter balls are enhanced by dipping them in chocolate. But, I don't care how delicious the chocolate is, there are some 'delicacies' I will not be trying. I've heard of chocolate covered grasshoppers, ants and crickets. I'm told they are nice and crunchy, similar to chocolate covered nuts, but I will not be taste testing these toothsome bites. "But Luci," you may be saying, "maybe these poor people don't have anything else to cover with chocolate." Really? Almost every primitive culture I've ever heard of grinds grain and creates some sort of bread or cake. Chocolate covered cake sounds way better to me than chocolate covered walrus blubber. To quote Marie Antoinette, "Let them eat cake." Actually, I just Googled that quote and learned that there is no proof that M. A. ever uttered those words. I think what she probably said was "Let them eat chocolate."
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