LUXURIOUS, RICH,SUMPTUOUS, SMOOTH, INTOXICATING......... BINGING! In February 1999 I realized I was completely and almost hopelessly an addict of
chocolate. I was at the bottom of the going hard core darker than dark chocolate.
I would only eat the best and the most bitter I could find. If someone offered me
something chocolate flavored I felt like I had been insulted that it was not the real thing. I could tell that they new nothing about this brown, sleek, velvety substance that I used on a daily bases to bring heaven to my lips. I wasn't rude, but when they weren't looking I got rid of it. Non of this imitation cheep waxy gunk for me. I was the Guru of chocolate. I knew where you could get the best and I spent big bucks to have it.
If I wanted it fast then I stuck to the bags of Ghirardelli chocolate chips. If you are vegetarian you look to see if there is any bovine in it. This is the only chocolate chip retailer that didn't use animal fat in their chocolate. Now candy stores, that is another story. You have to ask, and most use it.
I was so hooked on this luscious substance that if I was wanting it and I was out, even at 2:00am in the morning, I went for the coco box. You know that box that has powdered coco for cooking, yea that one. I only did that a couple of times and it isn't quite the same without the sugar in it. Now I have been eating chocolate for many years before 1999. This date however is the one that sticks in my mind because this is the day I spent laying in a heap crying my eyes out because I could not stop eating CHOCOLATE. But we will get back to this later.
I want to tell you just how much chocolate was in my life. It was in my linen closet underneath the sheets. It was in the glove box of my car. It was stashed in my knitting bag and under the the couch, but the one place it was always sure to be was in the freezer, nice and crunchy cold. I loved it frozen because I liked the hard crunch of it. I ate it with nuts in it mostly. I love the variety that the nuts gave it. I put it with my ice-cream any flavor, after almost every meal, and always while watching a movie at home or in the theater.
When I was in a landscape business I took two pound bags of M&Ms to work and shared it with the other workers, so I didn't feel so bad that I was the one that ate the most. My kids also ate a lot of my M&Ms and other chocolate because I gave it to them.
Are you relating to this? If you are you might be having what I had. I say had because I have not eaten a whole piece of chocolate or a chocolate chip since this date I am writing about.
I have bought it for others and made cakes and cookies and even fudge and I have left it alone.
If you want to know more about chocolate and addictions come back I will be writing more about this next time. For now have a day filled with peace and joy. Jacklen
chocolate. I was at the bottom of the going hard core darker than dark chocolate.
I would only eat the best and the most bitter I could find. If someone offered me
something chocolate flavored I felt like I had been insulted that it was not the real thing. I could tell that they new nothing about this brown, sleek, velvety substance that I used on a daily bases to bring heaven to my lips. I wasn't rude, but when they weren't looking I got rid of it. Non of this imitation cheep waxy gunk for me. I was the Guru of chocolate. I knew where you could get the best and I spent big bucks to have it.
If I wanted it fast then I stuck to the bags of Ghirardelli chocolate chips. If you are vegetarian you look to see if there is any bovine in it. This is the only chocolate chip retailer that didn't use animal fat in their chocolate. Now candy stores, that is another story. You have to ask, and most use it.
I was so hooked on this luscious substance that if I was wanting it and I was out, even at 2:00am in the morning, I went for the coco box. You know that box that has powdered coco for cooking, yea that one. I only did that a couple of times and it isn't quite the same without the sugar in it. Now I have been eating chocolate for many years before 1999. This date however is the one that sticks in my mind because this is the day I spent laying in a heap crying my eyes out because I could not stop eating CHOCOLATE. But we will get back to this later.
I want to tell you just how much chocolate was in my life. It was in my linen closet underneath the sheets. It was in the glove box of my car. It was stashed in my knitting bag and under the the couch, but the one place it was always sure to be was in the freezer, nice and crunchy cold. I loved it frozen because I liked the hard crunch of it. I ate it with nuts in it mostly. I love the variety that the nuts gave it. I put it with my ice-cream any flavor, after almost every meal, and always while watching a movie at home or in the theater.
When I was in a landscape business I took two pound bags of M&Ms to work and shared it with the other workers, so I didn't feel so bad that I was the one that ate the most. My kids also ate a lot of my M&Ms and other chocolate because I gave it to them.
Are you relating to this? If you are you might be having what I had. I say had because I have not eaten a whole piece of chocolate or a chocolate chip since this date I am writing about.
I have bought it for others and made cakes and cookies and even fudge and I have left it alone.
If you want to know more about chocolate and addictions come back I will be writing more about this next time. For now have a day filled with peace and joy. Jacklen
2 comments:
Hey, I was just getting into the story when you left me hanging. This is a great story for a book. ha.
Love you mom
What about the m&m's I remember those alot! So why were you eating so much chocolate anyway? Tell me more!
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