DiD someone say Chocolate?
Hershey taps into growing Asian market by altering standard flavors
Hershey’s is seeking to join its top competitors on more candy shelves in places like India and China as it makes a bid to expand its global presence.
Green tea Kisses and almond Reese’s cups?
With annual sales of $28 billion, the U.S. retail market for candy, chocolate, gum and mints is projected by Euromonitor to grow at less than 2 percent a year.
Ahhh… Chocolate. There are few foods that people find so irresistible and feel quite as passionate about.
Dang. For some of us just thinking about chocolate can evoke bliss. Mmmmmmmm.
What do ya suppose it is my “sweet” friends…Heh.
Is it the caffeine, the stimulant theobromine, the amphetamine phenylethylamine?
Or is that T.M.I.? (too much info?) 
Chocolate has gotten a bad rap.
Claims that it causes acne and tooth decay, that it’s a fattening, nutritionless food.
Then again, it’s been known to be an anti-depressant and heck, even an aphrodisiac.
Some even claim that the cocoa butter in the chocolate may coat the teeth and protect them by preventing plaque from forming. Go figure.
We’ve heard the recent findings that the phenolics, in chocolate may help lower the risk of heart disease.
Well, that’s encouraging aint it?
What’s your pleasure friends.
Chocolate syrup. Ice-cream. Chocolate cake. Chocolate chip cookies.
Me?..I’ll take a simple milk chocolate hersheys kiss anytime.
Come to think of it..make that a dozen.
Perhaps the more ya know ’bout this charismatic confection, the more y’all should consider experimenting and sampling different types and brands of chocolate eh.
Kinda like yer own research project ya know. 
Points to Ponder:
If you’ve got melted chocolate all over your hands, you’re eating it too slowly.
Money talks. Chocolate sings. 
Put “eat chocolate” at the top of your list of things to do today. That way, at least you’ll get one thing done.
If you can’t eat all your chocolate, it will keep in the freezer. But if you can’t eat all your chocolate, what’s wrong with you?
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May 1st, 2007 at 8:27 pm
“If you can’t eat all your chocolate, it will keep in the freezer. But if you can’t eat all your chocolate, what’s wrong with you?”
Diabetes.
Fortunately for me, there’s sugar free chocolate!
May 2nd, 2007 at 12:35 am
I love Japanese chocolate! There are some unique tastes.
May 2nd, 2007 at 1:35 am
Life is like a box of chocolates: squarish and tastes a little like paper…
May 2nd, 2007 at 1:56 am
MMMM delightful post! Chocolate really is one of my favorite things!
May 2nd, 2007 at 4:05 am
One of the finest things about life in Israel is the overall quality of the chocolate here.
But sometimes, I yearn for a Hershey bar…
May 2nd, 2007 at 5:16 am
I did a report a few years back for a nutrition class I took where I essentially redesigned the food pyramid into a tree. Obviously chocolate was the trunk. My reasoning is that healthy eating was easier to stick to if the cravings were satisfied as well. I got an A.
May 2nd, 2007 at 6:08 am
oy chocolate…green tea??? my cousin just visited from belgium…brought me a box…a box…of leonidas chocolates…it was the first time in 37 years that i contemplated moving from jerusalem…that good
May 2nd, 2007 at 7:29 am
Suddenly I have a craving for chocolate, Angel. Gee, I wonder why? LOL! There’s no chocolate in the house either. Dang!
May 2nd, 2007 at 8:26 am
Nothing better than a traditional Hershey’s Kiss with that after-dinner cup o’ Joe!
May 2nd, 2007 at 8:45 am
You are killing my diet with this post!!! Venezuela has great chocolate. There is a chocolate company here, owned by a Jewish family, that has won international awards. Del Ry Chocolate! To die for!!!A member of our church works there and regularly GIVES me KILO blocks! thats 2.2 pounds! Lasts a day or two!
May 2nd, 2007 at 9:00 am
i keep emergency chocolate - you know, for those three or four days a month where the evil one kicks in…
one time, our daughter asked me why i keep “emergency” chocolate and i emphatically told her, “it’s my in-case-i-want-to-kill-somebody relief!” she responded, “oh.” a couple of years later, she knew what i was talkin’ about…*:]
May 2nd, 2007 at 11:04 am
lol…thanks y’all for the yummy input!
May 2nd, 2007 at 2:37 pm
You’re killin’ my diet, girl!
May 2nd, 2007 at 10:19 pm
Shake me wake me, when they get up to Pizza Kisses…then i can combine some of my vices….make that a double!!!!!
May 3rd, 2007 at 8:26 am
Perri Nelson’s right. Sugar free chocolate is just as good as the real thing these days. I highly recommend Figi’s (http://www.figis.com). I keep a running order for their chocolate coconut haystacks and petite fours, sugar free of course.
I treat myself with one haystack and one petite four after dinner. Yum Yum
May 3rd, 2007 at 10:20 am
I love simple chocolate, but recently we came across Hershey’s Extra Dark assortment. Very good, especially the one with cranberries, blueberries, & almonds. Yum.
For ice cream I prefer vanilla though. Go figure.
May 4th, 2007 at 6:01 am
I have tried every M&M version to come out - I think! - and only one, so far, has been a loser. Crunchy M&Ms don’t make the cut. There was also a Cafe Con Leche M&Ms. I found them once, bought a bag, enjoyed the heck outa them, and have never seen them on the shelves since! Dang!
I like the idea of confectioners trying new things as long as they don’t abandon what really works for something that may only be a fad.
“Just gimme da chocolate and nobody gets hurt, see?”