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Do you like chocolates? What is your favorite kind?

I love good truffles with liquer, as well as dark chocolates. Hot chocolate, chocolate icing with mini-Hershey-chips in it... I like good chocolate covered pretzels, too. Ghiradelli brownie mix is awesome. (Can you tell I'm craving chocolate? LOL) *Note to self: tell hubby to bring home chocolate on the way home from work today!*

YUM!

What about you?

Chocolate is the perfect medicine for anything that ails you! (or me anyway.)

My favorite chocolate is DeBrands. It is made in the town where I work and is sold worldwide now.
I know the owner - and the one who does all the recipes.

My favorite is dark chocolate/rasberry filled.

LOL! I always say "chocolate will cure what ails ya." No lie!

Awesome!! <img src="/images/graemlins/cool.gif" alt="" />

I've not heard of that brand, Lynne. I'll have to keep my eyes out. We have some local chocolatiers that are great, too, but seem to do more of the milk chocolate. <img src="/images/graemlins/frown.gif" alt="" /> (But I'll take what I can get!)

Do you like white chocolate?

White chocolate is not one of my favorites. It's too sweet. Dark chocolate and milk chocolate for me, :love:

Godiva. It doesn't matter *what* kind of chocolate it is, as long as there is a wide assortment. I love samplers of chocolate of any kind! Is it true that chocolate is not only an aphrodisiac but a mood elevator?

white brown and dark brown all taste the same to me

I love dark chocolate. I find it fascinating that for years people in the US (raised with sweet tooths on Hi-C) would mostly only eat milk chocolate. In fact when Godiva first started selling chocolate here they had to make a sweetened version for our US market to get people to buy it.

But over the years our tastes have "matured" and now Godiva sells us the same richer flavor that they've always sold to the European market. I have a poll on chocolate running on the main BellaOnline site and it's about 50/50 as far as dark/milk!

You know, I've never tried Godiva chocolate but I almost bought it several times. Now that Amazon.com sells it, it's even more tempting! I'll definitely have to try it sometime. Oh! Wait! I did try a small sampler several years ago. Very good as I remember! (All the chocolate tends to blur together... Gosh, I'm a chocolate lush!)

IQ, chocolate contains small amounts of a chemical called phenylethylamine (PEA), which is a mild mood elevator. It�s the same chemical that our brain produces when we feel happy or �in love.�

Btw, did you know that a Harvard University study found that men who ate chocolate lived one year longer than those who didn�t? Hmm. Not sure what to make of that! I would expect chocolate to add at least 10 years to the lifespan! <img src="/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" />

Lisa, there's a glaring omission to the chocolate poll: All. <img src="/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" />

I do. I'm gonna buy some chocolate and feed my SO.

Awwwww! How sweet! :love:

My husband was dipping into my mint chocolates that I bought last night. *holds up crumpled wrapper as proof*