Tuesday, December 04, 2007

I don't like Chocolate

I have a dreaded dark secret that I’ve been trying to keep hidden from everyone for years. You already know what it is because it’s the title of this post: I don’t like chocolate. I like white chocolate with my favorite being the White Toblerone bars, Mmmm. I’m okay with chocolate cake, brownies, tootsie rolls, and even peanut M&Ms; straight up chocolate however is right out. The purer the chocolate the more I hate it. I bought Connie a 99% cocoa gourmet Lindt chocolate bar once and she had me try some. It was the second worst thing I have ever had tasted. I was going to say ‘had in my mouth’ but that just conjured up all the wrong associations.

When people, especially women, find out about my strong dislike for this revered confectionery they treat me like some kind of alien. They seem to find this whole admission even more offensive being that I was born on Valentines day thought they don't seem to be bothered by the fact that I don't run around in a diaper with a little bow and arrow. My only defense on the chocolate issue is to say that if I were to buy them some chocolate... say as a gift; they can rest assured that I won’t try to steal any. This usually grants me a temporary reprieve until they realize that the times I do happen to buy them some chocolate are few and far between. Its not that I’m not a loving, gift giving kinda guy, it’s just that I would rather get them something I can steal some of.

Now however, I have found any ally who understands my plight.

3 comments:

MICHAEL said...

For ages and ages I used to become sick whenever I ate chocolate that wasn't white. I was sooo pissed off when they stopped making white magnums. But then I grew out of it.

Joseph B. Hewitt IV said...

That is one of the good things about Australia though, white chocolate is much much much more common than in the U.S. You would be unlikely to find white chocolate in say, the candy section of 7-11 even though they have an entire row of candy.

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BugHunter said...

Sorry about the news spreading thru the tubes this morning. Details are lacking, and I'm not even real sure it's true, but if it is, that's a raw deal for many Auran folk.