I read an article today about a trans CIA agent (https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/03/transgender-cia/520050/ (https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/03/transgender-cia/520050/)) that, quite incidentally, had this to say: "Chocolate is amazing on estrogen."
One of the first people I came out to told me, "Now, you'll have cravings for chocolate."
"Too late," I replied, "I have always had cravings for chocolate."
"In fact," I continued, smacking my forehead like Homer Simpson in a D'oh! moment, "That should have been an early clue!"
I can't say that I've noticed a difference between chocolate on T and chocolate on E, but I will agree that chocolate is amazing. I hear people say that chocolate is better than sex, and I know exactly what they mean: it is more available; it gets you higher; it lasts longer (sorry, TMI).
So what do you think about chocolate? Did you notice a difference after starting HRT? Is is a wonder drug or just junk food? Do you stockpile it in case there is a shortage? (Guilty on that one!)
Yes, Kathy, chocolate is amazing.
I have no experience of chocolate on estorgen, but I suspect it's spectacular with or without E,T or P. Personally I like the simple dark, about 70% cocoa solids type for most occasion--usually Lindt Excellence 70%; it's available, excellent quality, and always in my reserves stashed away in my kitchen.
A really simple mind blowing treat is this with some big usually somewhat tannic red wine. I like it either toward the sweet such as vintage ruby port (Taylor Fladgate or Graham's Six Grape) or toward the dry (big zinfandel, cab or syrah based wines from either new or old world).
Also, a simple desert we serve to friends and guests--70% dark goes well with sharp, salty Romano or similar hard aged cheeses and a ripe pear or black tannic table grapes.
On the question of sex, it can go either way. NEver worse, sometimes better, sometimes leads to...
Sex leads to chocolate and wine? Life is hard.
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Quote from: Steph Eigen on March 21, 2017, 10:08:29 AM
A really simple mind blowing treat is this with some big usually somewhat tannic red wine.
OMG,
YES!!! One of my favourite combinations! And yes, quite mind-blowing.
Quote from: CoriM on March 21, 2017, 10:50:36 AM
Sex leads to chocolate and wine? Life is hard.
LOL! :D
Life's simple pleasures are usually the best.
I like dark chocolate, the kind that most people don't, the 70% plus cocoa kinds, the weird "bitter" ones, or the types without regular sugar.
To be honest since HRT I have found it pretty easy to give up. I gave it up along with most junk food in December, I hope for good. I notice I do not think about eating anymore if stressed, HRT itself has reduced the stress almost completely anyway.
I have sat and watched other people eating chocolate and cake with zero desire to join them in it, them basically waving it under my nose and telling me to eat it and attempting to see if I'll cave. Wouldn't have resisted a few months ago. Something has changed.
Can't say I ever got much pleasure out of eating it, whatever they say about it being equivalent to sex or a hug. Like a dog who eats it because it's there and hoiks it back up again. Except nothing escapes my cast-iron stomach.
Yep. Go for the 85-90% cocoa solids bitter chocholate with a cup of really good espresso. Wow!
Steph, KathyLauren, you two are KILLING me. Auggggh!
Dark bitter chocolate and espresso... Red wine and dark chocolate... Oh, why did I have to look at this thread?
I feel a lost weekend coming on. TCHO chocolates two blocks away, Prima and their lovely wine shop calling... I need someone to lash me to the mast lest I be drawn onto the shoals by the Sirens call.
Quote from: Steph Eigen on March 25, 2017, 10:27:15 AM
Yep. Go for the 85-90% cocoa solids bitter chocholate with a cup of really good espresso. Wow!
Lindt have a 99% chocolate that is available from time to time. It is a bit too intense to just chow down on, but with an espresso ... Oh, yeah!
Michelle,
Careful with the literary allusions: The man, Odysseus was lashed to the mast, the sirens' call is definitely a straight-cis call to the me of the crew!
Maybe better, the lost time, the entrancing effect of chocolate like the spell of Circe over Odysseus.
Steph
Alas, I fear Michelle has set sail for Cacao Island. :laugh:
Quote from: Devlyn Marie on March 25, 2017, 07:24:23 PM
Alas, I fear Michelle has set sail for Cacao Island. :laugh:
Bwah-ha-ha! We snared another one. High-five, Siren Steph!
Dark chocolate with chili and a good dark beer like Guinness! Wine is good too.
Milk or dark chocolate cordial cherries before and after E. End of story.
Green & Blacks used to do a kind of dark chocolate with cherries inside it. Not sure if they still do.
They do an 85% kind now for you cocoa fiends.
I've oddly never really fancied chocolate. Most light/milk chocolate products I find too oily for human consumption, and most dark I find too powdery. I've yet to find a happy medium. Mint chocolate items or orange chocolate (something to take the edge off the chocolate flavor itself) I can tolerate in small doses. I could definitely do without chocolate entirely, my guilty pleasures have always been more along the lines of salty or peppery snacks or ice cream. >.>
Quote from: Angela Drakken on March 27, 2017, 11:43:11 AMmost dark I find too powdery.
Yes, the cheap stuff can be. I see from your profile that you are in Canada. If you can find Denman Island chocolate, it is the creamiest, smoothest chocolate you will ever taste. (Full disclosure: I worked in their factory at one time. Bwah-ha-ha! >:-) ) Nothing remotely grainy about it. We can even get it here in Nova Scotia, so it is right across the country.
Susan's doesn't want me to resurrect this thread, but I don't care! Kathy just sent me here, and I'm gonna make my thoughts known. This thread ended before I started here, so I wonder what other awesome things I've missed...
I just loves me dark chocolate. The bitterer the betterer, and with coffee of any kind... O.M.G. Sue only likes pure chocolate, but I like mine with fruit, too, especially dark chocolate cordial cherries. Drooool.
I hadn't thought about it with wine, and I know so little about it anyway. But I just found a bottle of Pinot Noir that someone left behind from my party, so I poured myself a glass and went to get some chocolate... and there isn't a single bite in the house. Oh, the humanity!
I do have chocolate ice cream. Anybody ever try a chocolate pinot noir float?
Stephanie
If you like really dark chocolate, Montezuma Chocolate makes a bar called Absolute Black. It is the only 100% dark chocolate bar I have ever found that was edible. I ordered quite a bit of chocolate from them this year, including three dozen bars of Absolute Black. They are in the UK. I ordered on a Saturday and it was at my door in Colorado on Friday.
I LOVVEEEEE Chocolate, its my krpytonite.. OMG any kind of chocolate.... not really Dark or White chocolate kind of girl but everything else YESSS gimme gimme gimme
and i have also wondered if Chocolate tastes better on E
I've always loved chocolate but I love it even more since HRT. I tend to avoid candy because of calories but chocolate is something I have no self control with. Chocolate peanut butter cups and cordial cherries, forget it! Once when I was watching TV I was eating cordial cherries and I was totally horrified when I realized I had eaten the entire box of 8! That had to have been like a million calories. I've also scarfed half a bag of the reeses miniatures before. And I always buy chocolates the day after valentines day when it's like 75% off. Chocolate can also improve my bad moods. When I get in a snarky mood my dad and brother give me chocolate. Tristan has started doing that too. The weird thing is they always seem to have it on hand. I sometimes wonder if they keep stashes of chocolate just to give me when I'm in a bad mood. But I'm not THAT moody. At least I don't think I am.........
Quote from: KathyLauren on March 21, 2017, 09:24:38 AM
So what do you think about chocolate?
I can't stand it. It makes me nauseous. The smell alone makes me gag. Although the same could be said for almost all sweet things. But chocolate especially is, to me, utterly repugnant.
I think I must've been born with enlarged canines rather than a sweet tooth.
*slinks off to a dark corner*
The dark chocolate cordial cherries are MINE! 4 posts above yours Stephanie I laid claim to them first so everyone hand them over. You shouldn't have thrown all your fruit at passerbys. Now you'll have to buy some more to go with your chocolate.
Hugs,
Laurie.
I've always loved chocolate. HRT makes it even more amazing.
I've always liked wine as well. When I came out a friend commented "that explains the wine and chocolate thing"
I stopped drinking alcohol quite a few years ago. And I looooove chocolate after starting HRT. So I'll just have to eat more chocolate to offset the lack of wine.
I've been eating way too much chocolate lately. This week I finished off 33 chocolate bars since Monday. I need to get that back under control. :-(
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Quote from: Laurie on January 06, 2018, 08:23:23 PM
The dark chocolate cordial cherries are MINE! 4 posts above yours Stephanie I laid claim to the first so everyone hand them over. You shouldn't have thrown all your fruit at passerbys. Now you'll have to buy some more to go with your chocolate.
Up here on the fridge I can hold my box of dark chocolate cherry cordials up out of even your reach. And they're sooooo goooood.
- Stephanie
Quote from: Steph2.0 on January 06, 2018, 11:13:08 PM
Up here on the fridge I can hold my box of dark chocolate cherry cordials up out of even your reach. And they're sooooo goooood.
- Stephanie
I am sooo going to smack you.
Quote from: Sephirah on January 06, 2018, 07:40:15 PM
I can't stand it. It makes me nauseous. The smell alone makes me gag. Although the same could be said for almost all sweet things. But chocolate especially is, to me, utterly repugnant.
I think I must've been born with enlarged canines rather than a sweet tooth.
*slinks off to a dark corner*
More for us!! >:-) It's all good.
Quote from: Laurie on January 06, 2018, 08:23:23 PM
The dark chocolate cordial cherries are MINE! 4 posts above yours Stephanie I laid claim to them first so everyone hand them over. You shouldn't have thrown all your fruit at passerbys. Now you'll have to buy some more to go with your chocolate.
Hugs,
Laurie.
One year one of my customers gave me a box of cherry cordials for Chrismas. They had a gold box and looked expensive. I couldn't wait to try one that night after dinner. They were beautiful dark chocolate and I popped one in my mouth. OMG, it tasted just vile! I thought they were rotten or something and spit it into a napkin. My dad started looking at the box and then started laughing. They were alcoholic cherry cordials. Alcoholic! WHY????? How could anyone ruin cherry cordials like that? That's just wrong.
Quote from: Julia1996 on January 07, 2018, 07:37:27 AM
One year one of my customers gave me a box of cherry cordials for Chrismas. They had a gold box and looked expensive. I couldn't wait to try one that night after dinner. They were beautiful dark chocolate and I popped one in my mouth. OMG, it tasted just vile! I thought they were rotten or something and spit it into a napkin. My dad started looking at the box and then started laughing. They were alcoholic cherry cordials. Alcoholic! WHY????? How could anyone ruin cherry cordials like that? That's just wrong.
Oh my, I haven't had liquor filled chocolates in years. There was a fad back in the 80's. Problem is that some would crystalise next to the chocolate. And after you've eaten enough of them they taste fine :)
When I was a kid back in the late 60's my grandmother used to make big batches of rum balls at Christmas. They were heavy on the rum and I always thought they were pretty good.
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Rum balls, yummy!
When my first wife and I would fly up to Portland to visit her parents there was a bakery across from the Weinhart's Brewery who's name currently escapes me.
While I wanted to go to the brewery, she told me the place was the brewery's annex. After a few rum balls I didn't care.
Quote from: Deborah on January 07, 2018, 08:29:38 AM
When I was a kid back in the late 60's my grandmother used to make big batches of rum balls at Christmas. They were heavy on the rum and I always thought they were pretty good.
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I've eaten a rum ball before. It wasn't as bad as the alcoholic cordials but it was still nasty.
Quote from: Cali on January 07, 2018, 08:21:15 AM
Oh my, I haven't had liquor filled chocolates in years. There was a fad back in the 80's. Problem is that some would crystalise next to the chocolate. And after you've eaten enough of them they taste fine :)
One of my mom's clients gave her alcoholic chocolates for Christmas one year. They were individual little chocolate bottles filled with some kind of alcoholic filling. Each little bottle was wrapped in foil of different colors. They were really cute. The person who gave them to her was Swiss so it might be a European thing. But I never imagined alcoholic cherry cordials. They looked like high end chocolates too. Yuck!
:icon_caffine: :icon_caffine: :icon_caffine: :icon_caffine: :icon_caffine: RUMBALLS!!!!!
Quote from: Julia1996 on January 07, 2018, 08:39:32 AM
One of my mom's clients gave her alcoholic chocolates for Christmas one year. They were individual little chocolate bottles filled with some kind of alcoholic filling. Each little bottle was wrapped in foil of different colors. They were really cute. The person who gave them to her was Swiss so it might be a European thing. But I never imagined alcoholic cherry cordials. They looked like high end chocolates too. Yuck!
These bottle chocolates were the ones I was referring to. Don't see much of them anymore.
Quote from: Julia1996 on January 07, 2018, 08:39:32 AM
One of my mom's clients gave her alcoholic chocolates for Christmas one year. They were individual little chocolate bottles filled with some kind of alcoholic filling. Each little bottle was wrapped in foil of different colors. They were really cute. The person who gave them to her was Swiss so it might be a European thing. But I never imagined alcoholic cherry cordials. They looked like high end chocolates too. Yuck!
yummy. like anything, some better than others but still .. yummy
Then there's chocolate covered ants.......
Chocolate covered grasshoppers and baby bees too.
OMG, I LOVE chocolate!! Around 2 months into HRT a friend bought me some truffles from Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory, and it was AMAZING. I had never knew chocolate could taste so good!! I'm highly partial to both dark & white chocolate. Milk chocolate is kinda meh.
My friends have a box of cordial cherries sitting in the kitchen unopened. I SO want to dig into it! My mom got me a bag of Lindor assorted chocolates, and I'm trying my best to eat them slowly.
So yes, I absolutely agree that chocolate is better with higher estrogen.
Quote from: Cali on January 07, 2018, 10:21:04 AM
Then there's chocolate covered ants.......
Quote from: Laurie on January 07, 2018, 10:33:32 AM
Chocolate covered grasshoppers and baby bees too.
Ewww! You girls are weird. :P What a thing to do to perfectly good chocolate!
What you haven't tried them??? It was kind of a fad back in the late 50s and early 60s.
Anything tastes better dipped in chocolate but there are limits. Many times I've told someone to " go eat a bug". Now I find out it's actually a thing. Lol
One of my brother's friends ate an earthworm once because the other guys dared him to. Not only was it not chocolate covered, it was still alive. 😖😖😖😖😵 Guys ate so weird. It seems like guys can't refuse a dare. Hmmm if I dared my brother to start doing all the housework I wonder if he would do it? Probably not, only a dare from another guy seems to work.
I tried chocolate covered crickets before. Had I not been told what it was before hand I would have thought it was one of those crunchy crisp rice containing chocolates. That's exactly what the taste and texture was like. It was surprisingly "normal" tasting to be perfectly honest.
Quote from: Julia1996 on January 07, 2018, 11:38:41 AM
One of my brother's friends ate an earthworm once because the other guys dared him to. Not only was it not chocolate covered, it was still alive. [emoji37][emoji37][emoji37][emoji37][emoji43] Guys ate so weird. It seems like guys can't refuse a dare. Hmmm if I dared my brother to start doing all the housework I wonder if he would do it? Probably not, only a dare from another guy seems to work.
I chewed up and ate the worm in a tequila bottle once at a party. That act was most definitely spurred from drinking liberally from said tequila bottle first though.
I know about the dares though. In my high school the big dare was two guys putting their firearms together and then setting a lit cigarette between them. The first one to move his arm lost. Both were left with burn scars though. Someone dared me to do that once and I just declined and said that it was a really stupid thing to do.
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Back in the day when things were illegal, my friend and I spent over $200 1972 dollars on chocolate munchies of all kinds. I think that is where I got diabetes.
Quote from: Deborah on January 07, 2018, 02:05:40 PM
I know about the dares though. In my high school the big dare was two guys putting their firearms together and then setting a lit cigarette between them. The first one to move his arm lost. Both were left with burn scars though. Someone dared me to do that once and I just declined and said that it was a really stupid thing to do.
Whoa, that typo had my scratching my head for a minute! :D
Quote from: DawnOday on January 07, 2018, 02:17:19 PM
Back in the day when things were illegal, my friend and I spent over $200 1972 dollars on chocolate munchies of all kinds. I think that is where I got diabetes.
Chocolate was illegal in 1972??? How was that possible?
You aren't the only one Kathy It does say firearms but I am sure she meant forearms. I must be from the same time frame because that was a thing when I was a teenager. Just another form of playing "chicken"
Quote from: Julia1996 on January 07, 2018, 03:23:01 PM
Chocolate was illegal in 1972??? How was that possible?
I believe Dawn was referring to another item that was illegal that was known to cause extreme cases of the munchies. It's legal here and where Dawn is now.
Young whippersnappers... Got to love em!
Such a beautiful chocolate plant!!!!
Quote from: Julia1996 on January 07, 2018, 03:23:01 PM
Chocolate was illegal in 1972??? How was that possible?
Chocolate was not illegal. Chocolate was the cure. Not the disease. It's called munchies my dear and is an outgrowth of too much lawn clippings. AKA grass.
I like dark chocolate, but I tried the 85% and that was a bit too much for me. 60% is about my level. And the one with the red chili in it? ahhhhhh delicious! ;D
Quote from: Devlyn Marie on January 07, 2018, 03:43:13 PM
I like dark chocolate, but I tried the 85% and that was a bit too much for me. 60% is about my level. And the one with the red chili in it? ahhhhhh delicious! ;D
I like the 85% and the cherry and orange flavors. Chili is also good.
Quote from: Laurie on January 07, 2018, 03:25:22 PM
You aren't the only one Kathy It does say firearms but I am sure she meant forearms. I must be from the same time frame because that was a thing when I was a teenager. Just another form of playing "chicken"
Yes, it was forearms. I hung around with lots of rednecks but ones without firearms.
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I have a few favourite chocolates, but I've never been what I'd call a "chocoholic". I start therapy next month, so once I get approved for HRT, I think I'll have to make sure I have some chocolate before and then after, so I can see if there's a difference. I never really thought about this before lol!
Quote from: Colleen_definitely on January 06, 2018, 08:24:19 PM
I've always loved chocolate. HRT makes it even more amazing.
I've always liked wine as well. When I came out a friend commented "that explains the wine and chocolate thing"
I want some of both now! Unfortunately, it's 5:00 in the morning and I have to leave for work soon.
The spy who came in from the cold in the War Between the Sexes.
Yesterday I ran the 15k "Hot Chocolate" race in SF Golden Gate Park. The medal looks like a chocolate bar and chocolate throughout the course and lots at the end.
You can make chocolate coffee by adding a packet of instant coco to your coffee. I do that so a have chocolate to start the day. Lol
One simply does not drop a packet of Swiss Miss in a cup of Jamaican Blue! :laugh:
Hugs, Devlyn
Quote from: Devlyn Marie on January 08, 2018, 11:03:18 AM
One simply does not drop a packet of Swiss Miss in a cup of Jamaican Blue! :laugh:
Hugs, Devlyn
If you're a coffee connoisseur, no. If you're like me, buying the huge can of Walmart brand coffee and brewing it strong enough to dissolve the spoon, cocoa powder doesn't ruin the taste. Lol.
Quote from: Julia1996 on January 08, 2018, 11:33:47 AM
If you're a coffee connoisseur, no. If you're like me, buying the huge can of Walmart brand coffee and brewing it strong enough to dissolve the spoon, cocoa powder doesn't ruin the taste. Lol.
To me, drinking more than two cups of coffee is like taking speed, lol.
However, a year or so ago I found that I liked "Ice Coffees" but paying close to $5/bottle was insane. So, I bought a quantity of mason jars and some somewhat decent coffee. I now may up about five pots of coffee and (well, one at a time) pour the coffee into a mason jar to the 12 mark leaving some space for creamer later. Then place the jar in cold water until I hear the plink and then remove it and place it in the frig. Later, when I feel like an ice coffee, just take it out,put some creamer or milk and maybe a cube or two of ice and enjoy.
The medical clinic I go to has a pharmacy and a coffee shop. I want an Estradiol Soy Mocha, no whip. Or in warm weather, a Femmucchino.
Quote from: Kendra on January 08, 2018, 12:29:13 PM
The medical clinic I go to has a pharmacy and a coffee shop. I want an Estradiol Soy Mocha, no whip. Or in warm weather, a Femmucchino.
The Soy will get you :)
Quote from: Kendra on January 08, 2018, 12:29:13 PM
The medical clinic I go to has a pharmacy and a coffee shop. I want an Estradiol Soy Mocha, no whip. Or in warm weather, a Femmucchino.
Double estresso for me.
- Stephanie
Quad Femmucchino, please.
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I don't like iced coffee except for Starbucks cinnamon roll frapuccino. But that's more like a coffee milkshake.
Quote from: Julia1996 on January 08, 2018, 02:26:22 PM
I don't like iced coffee except for Starbucks cinnamon roll frapuccino. But that's more like a coffee milkshake.
I like Chocolate Frappe's..... oh and Chocolate Thickshakes too...
never tried Iced Coffee really
Quote from: Christy Lee on January 09, 2018, 02:21:02 AM
I like Chocolate Frappe's..... oh and Chocolate Thickshakes too...
never tried Iced Coffee really
I love McDonalds chocolate milkshakes even though they aren't milkshakes. They're so good though. Once when I didn't have any chocolate I used some of my dad's chocolate muscle milk protein powder to make a chocolate milkshake. Nasty! That stuff has a lot of nerve claiming to be "chocolate" . My dad, boyfriend and brother all use that stuff. It always LOOKS really good in the glass but it always tastes like a sawdust smoothie. Gross!
Has anyone invented a chocolate patch yet? Oh wait, that might taste like chocolate muscle milk protein powder.
Quote from: Kendra on January 09, 2018, 12:49:56 PM
Has anyone invented a chocolate patch yet? Oh wait, that might taste like chocolate muscle milk protein powder.
I don't know why they don't improve that protein stuff. My dad, brother and BF all eat those nasty protein bars too. Once I was having a chocolate craving and didn't have any. I noticed a box of chocolate peanut butter protein bars so I grabbed one. What a let down! It was awful! Like cardboard with a chocolate colored coating. And insult to injury my brother told me not to " waste" his protein bars because they were for people who lift weights and work out hard. Excuuuuuse the hell out of me Mr. Universe. Keep your nasty ass protein bars!
Quote from: Julia1996 on January 09, 2018, 12:59:41 PM
I don't know why they don't improve that protein stuff. My dad, brother and BF all eat those nasty protein bars too. Once I was having a chocolate craving and didn't have any. I noticed a box of chocolate peanut butter protein bars so I grabbed one. What a let down! It was awful! Like cardboard with a chocolate colored coating. And insult to injury my brother told me not to " waste" his protein bars because they were for people who lift weights and work out hard. Excuuuuuse the hell out of me Mr. Universe. Keep your nasty ass protein bars!
They put chocolate (or more likely, carob) on those bars to help hide the nasty taste. Imagine how bad they would taste without it!
The spy who came in from the cold in the War Between the Sexes.
Quote from: Dee Marshall on January 09, 2018, 01:47:41 PM
They put chocolate (or more likely, carob) on those bars to help hide the nasty taste. Imagine how bad they would taste without it!
The spy who came in from the cold in the War Between the Sexes.
I had to google carob. No wonder they taste disgusting. There is absolutely NO substitute for chocolate. Ever.
I insist on bioidentical chocolate.
Quote from: Kendra on January 09, 2018, 12:49:56 PM
Has anyone invented a chocolate patch yet? Oh wait, that might taste like chocolate muscle milk protein powder.
I tried but it keepth thticking to my tongue.
Thtephanie
Chocolate melts easily enough, I don't see why it couldn't be administered intravenously. Hell, even I'd volunteer for that needle! ;D
Hugs, Devlyn
Quote from: Devlyn Marie on January 09, 2018, 05:25:01 PM
Chocolate melts easily enough, I don't see why it couldn't be administered intravenously. Hell, even I'd volunteer for that needle! ;D
Hugs, Devlyn
I don't know about that. Nothing more sinful or delish than chocolate on one's tongue.
Quote from: Cali on January 09, 2018, 05:28:44 PM
Quote from: Devlyn Marie on January 09, 2018, 05:25:01 PM
Chocolate melts easily enough, I don't see why it couldn't be administered intravenously. Hell, even I'd volunteer for that needle! ;D
Hugs, Devlyn
I don't know about that. Nothing more sinful or delish than chocolate on one's tongue.
Must...resist...temptation... >:-) :laugh:
Quote from: Cali on January 09, 2018, 05:28:44 PM
I don't know about that. Nothing more sinful or delish than chocolate on one's tongue.
It's all about the taste. It's the taste/smell of chocolate that gets you high, not anything that goes into your stomach. Someone actually did a study on that, monitoring brain waves to detect the high. You get the high before you even swallow. Intravenous (while tempting, I admit) won't do the job as well as tasting it.
Quote from: KathyLauren on January 09, 2018, 05:44:16 PM
It's all about the taste. It's the taste/smell of chocolate that gets you high, not anything that goes into your stomach. Someone actually did a study on that, monitoring brain waves to detect the high. You get the high before you even swallow. Intravenous (while tempting, I admit) won't do the job as well as tasting it.
Could chocolate be administered sublingually?
Quote from: KathyLauren on January 09, 2018, 05:44:16 PM
It's all about the taste. It's the taste/smell of chocolate that gets you high, not anything that goes into your stomach. Someone actually did a study on that, monitoring brain waves to detect the high. You get the high before you even swallow. Intravenous (while tempting, I admit) won't do the job as well as tasting it.
I've been a bad, bad, bad girl. I purchased some Hersey's Christmas Kisses the other day and some mini peanut butter cups and had planned on sharing them with my daughter. I don't know what happened, all of a sudden there's Hersey tags all over the house and my eyes are glazed over :)
Quote from: Dena on January 09, 2018, 05:57:51 PM
Could chocolate be administered sublingually?
Wow Dena! That's how I do it!!!!!!
Quote from: Dena on January 09, 2018, 05:57:51 PM
Could chocolate be administered sublingually?
As long as most of it eventually gets to the right taste buds, you'll be fine.
I bought my sister one of those 1lb reeses peanut butter cup packages like the Devyln had , a bag of regular ones, and a bag of raspberry flavored chocolate squares yesterday. I bought me one orange flavored chocolate bar. Somehow I feel cheated.
Quote from: Laurie on January 09, 2018, 06:31:20 PM
I bought my sister one of those 1lb reeses peanut butter cup packages like the Devyln had , a bag of regular ones, and a bag of raspberry flavored chocolate squares yesterday. I bought me one orange flavored chocolate bar. Somehow I feel cheated.
Us Diabettys have to be careful.
all this talk of chocolate. After I got home yesterday from work I received an email .. package arrived at work for my.
I opened the stashed package this morning and ...
(https://i.imgur.com/kuTdZZ2.jpg)
Usually more box than chocolate but that's ok, I'm not supposed to eat much anyways (not for health, for diet)
Quote from: Faith on January 10, 2018, 06:24:09 AMI'm not supposed to eat much anyways (not for health, for diet)
Not to worry, Faith, I'll help you dispose of it! >:-)
I'm very good about not eating fattening stuff but put chocolate in my reach and it's a different story.lol
Quote from: KathyLauren on January 10, 2018, 06:59:07 AM
Not to worry, Faith, I'll help you dispose of it! >:-)
Alright!! Chocolate Party!! everyone meet at my house for a sampling! hmm, I'll have to stock up. Do they have Chocolate Caterers? Did that sound right? how about, Caterers that don't serve food, just chocolate ;D
Quote from: Faith on January 10, 2018, 06:24:09 AM
(https://i.imgur.com/kuTdZZ2.jpg)
You uh...., you need any help with that? :icon_dribble:
Sorry, I can't share any of that particular package. It'll be gone long before anyone could get to it. Please refer to the previously mentioned chocolate party.
Quote from: KathyLauren on January 09, 2018, 05:44:16 PM
It's all about the taste. It's the taste/smell of chocolate that gets you high, not anything that goes into your stomach. Someone actually did a study on that, monitoring brain waves to detect the high. You get the high before you even swallow. Intravenous (while tempting, I admit) won't do the job as well as tasting it.
OK I need to invent a little vaporizer thingie loaded with the active ingredients in chocolate now. Women everywhere (myself included) would be lounging around in a semi-comatose state and loving every moment of it.
Quote from: Faith on January 10, 2018, 07:29:31 AM
Sorry, I can't share any of that particular package. It'll be gone long before anyone could get to it. Please refer to the previously mentioned chocolate party.
I'm in my car and headed south. You need to lock it up or eat it all in the next two hours. The clock is ticking.
- Stephanie
Quote from: Steph2.0 on January 10, 2018, 07:54:44 AM
I'm in my car and headed south. You need to lock it up or eat it all in the next two hours. The clock is ticking.
- Stephanie
drive fast ...................................................------------------->>>>>>>>>>>>>>
Quote from: Faith on January 10, 2018, 08:05:48 AM
drive fast ...................................................------------------->>>>>>>>>>>>>>
If only the weather was better and I could fly down...
- Stephanie
Quote from: Steph2.0 on January 10, 2018, 08:07:46 AM
If only the weather was better and I could fly down...
- Stephanie
promises promises. If chocolate is what it takes I am not opposed to coercion.
One of my closest friends loves, LOVES, LOVES! Chocolate. A little bit, anyway. I got her several imported dark chocolate and orange bars, as I find the two flavors are great complements (and they go well with a nice Cabernet...). It made a nice Christmas present, along with some teas.
Quote from: Colleen_definitely on January 10, 2018, 07:37:45 AM
OK I need to invent a little vaporizer thingie loaded with the active ingredients in chocolate now. Women everywhere (myself included) would be lounging around in a semi-comatose state and loving every moment of it.
There's a billion-dollar idea right there!