Come to the dark side. We have cookies, jl.

Now, now, now, jl. Why so much hating? You just haven't met the RIGHT dark chocolate for you. Obviously you haven't tried my very good friend, Dark Chocolate Body Paint. Warm and creamy and a lot of fun.

No problem, John. Move along - this is not the chocolate you're looking for.

It just means more dark chocolate for the rest of us!

Sorry, gang, it's a matter of taste. As a kid, I couldn't get enough of Suchard Bitra. And bittersweet is still my chocolate of choice. Hershey's milk chocolate? Why not? If nothing else is available, gimme' a Kiss.

I'm a milk chocolate kind of gal.

We may all have our own opinions about dark v. milk chocolate (dark for me), but surely we can all unite around a big collective "Gack!" for the "solidified sugar pudding" that is white chocolate. All together now . . .

In the UK, things are either chocolate or milk chocolate. And their milk chocolate is a lot better than our milk chocolate. Given the choice, I take chocolate over milk chocolate.

I don't know if everyone got this, but when the video started a banner ad flashed across the bottom of the video for "Hoagiefest 2009". I was so confused.

Milk chocolate leaves me phlegmy. Dark chocolate makes me want to fight a shark with my bare hands.

I think most of the doctors on TV who talk about dark chocolate must think we are morons, just because they are. If you take pure cocoa and add milk, sugar, anything at all it still has the beneficial cocoa in it. MIlk is not cocoa kryptonite.

Dark chocolate is still better. I like to load up on it before an amateur UFC bout becuse you can't be a beast in the Octagon of Death by eating milk chocolate! Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

jl, if you're truly worried about eating too much heart-healthy food, go to Salt Lake City for pastrami burgers, as reported in today's New York Times.

you haven't tried my very good friend, Dark Chocolate Body Paint. Warm and creamy and a lot of fun.

Oh my, MIss Porchetta, I had no idea. My word.

are we so full of ourselves that we can't agree that ALL chocolate rules? And, yes that includes the poor downtrodden white chocolate too!

White Chocolate? That was my street name when I was break dancing in Baden-Baden.

I don't know if my heart can take discussions of dark chocolate body paint and cotton candy in one week.

Oooooooooooooooooo................

Savoring the moment.

Move to the head of the class Lady Yummington. Get thine bacon crown and hie it over to the Manor post haste. It's fondue night for the Books and Diversions club.

We're introducing a new game tonight called pickle-feather-lizard. It's like rock-paper-scissors, sort of.

Viv, we're going to need a bigger pot.

If you were to insist that we have the milk chocolate chips in the house too I would never deny you them:

Ghirardelli Milk Chocolate Chips artfully combine real cocoa butter, whole milk powder, and pure, natural vanilla.

But for me and anyone who didn't say it I'll pull out the real ones:

Ghirardelli Semi-Sweet Chocolate Chips are a carefully balanced blend of the finest ingredients, including real cocoa butter, unsweetened chocolate, and just the right touch of sugar.

Available today at your better grocers.

Yum - Does the chocolate body paint come before or after the dye job?

White chopcolate was invented to use up excess inventories of cocoa butter. So, fundamentally, it is the plywood of chocolates. GACK!

jl: because I like to engage in synergistic thinking, I came up with this idea for us: black cherry flavored chocolate. And I know of just the thing for washing it down with...

Sheeesh! I had to go out at lunch to buy Dove Squares. And the very first Message inaside the wrapper? Chocolate therapy is, oh, so good!

Does the chocolate body paint come before or after the dye job?

Ideally, it should follow the viewing of the DVD.

Excellent point hmpstd!

Trixie, I believe it would be best enjoyed afterwards. You could choose the color(s) and then appreciate the pleasing and artistic combination.

Or, you may just follow hmpstd's advice. (Very, very good advice, hmpstd.) If you can ever pry the DVD from Lissa.

When I go to my parent's house I find myself breaking into the bags of toll house chips that my mom buys in bulk and stores until the Christmas cookie season. I'm taking straight handfuls. I'm throwing them in a bowl of cornflakes. It's just bad on so many levels.

Bam! Yum is on fire! Do they have any bacon flavored chocolate sauce? Quite a turn on the blog today. And now I think I will twitter somebody.

RoCK, I do that, too, except they are the bags of chocolate chips I keep around for my periodic cookie baking orgies.

The chocolate chip/sour cream/frozen strawberry/vanilla sugar mix wasn't a success.

RoCK - That sounds really good! And I am not a hugh chocolate fan. May have to stop at the store on my way home...

baking orgies..

color me there

TerrierGirl, when my Conan was a wee pup, my mother used to bake him homemade doggie cookies.

Even at a very bouncy 5 months, he'd sit in front of the oven when they were baking, at attention, motionless, until they came out.

I think he knew they were his, all his!

"hugh chocolate"

I hope that spelling guy doesn't yell at me for that!

Hugh Chocolate? Actually that was my ironic street name when I was with Der Breakin' Kinderpop! in Bayreuth. Break shnell!

I am seriously going to get written up at work for inappropriate spontaneous outbursts of laughter. Or hauled off for a psych eval.

"No really Doctor. There is this blog called D@L, and this guy named Owl Meat G(whatever G word he wants to use at the time)...Hello, hello, someone unlock this door!!"

hmpstd, thanks for the pastrami burger idea. I bet it'd be really good with pepperoni.

You're welcome, jl.

While we're still in heart-attack-inducement mode, I might as well include a link to Fancy Fast Food, which highlights haute cuisine made (almost) exclusively from fast food menu items. Like the site says: Yeah, it's still bad for you -- but see how good it can look!

Trixie, do you need me to start working on the embroidery pattern for your straightjacket?

Laugh @ me if you have to.
I have always loved Cella's Dark chocolate-covered cherries with "liquid filling".
Cost about $1.19 a box.
None of that cream filled stuff inside for me.
What the "liquid filling" is would be better left to my imagination because I'm sure it's something horrible I should not be eating.

Trixie, if you end up in the psych ward drop my name, you''ll get an extra fruit cup.

And if you drop Lord Marmalade's name, you'll get a digestive biscuit.

Lissa, Trixie, Owlie, you had me laughing-- but you have to admit, RoCK's comment is the whipped cream on top.

hmpstd,
I am not opposed to fast food. Especially when I'm in a hurry. But after seeing the 3F site, I'm more convinced than ever that it's best presented in a paper bag (sack).

My family sends me care packages of dark chocolate goodies from Wockenfuss a couple times a year. My favorite is the dark chocolate breakup, just big triangles of dark chocolate. Very hard in texture, but delicious. and the dark chocolate covered oreos are killer too.
I do like milk chocolate, but dark choc rules!

Lone Lady, I shudder to think what the "liquid filling" might actually be.

try glarus yet if you haven't. their truffles are most choice. we prefer dark-- coffee and kirsch. i won a big box of their chocolates in a WBAL contest a few yrs back (before they had the harbor east location) and have been a regular ever since.

for my rare sweet tooth/choco fix i default to a berger cookie and a highball of cold milk.

You haven't found the right dark chocolate. Now there is one that isn't loaded with sugar, fillers waxes and preservatives or caffeine and tastes delicious and is premium Belgian Chocolate. It is turning peoples lives around.There are thousands of clinical studies plus testimonials on the web and although it sounds too good to be true - dark chocolate really is the food of the gods!

Oh BOY, I am SO right for this test ... meet the criteria and LOVE dark chocolate! Where do I sign up? Oh damn, I don't live in Great Britain. FOOEY! JL, I'm glad you don't like dark chocolate -- more for me!

Lone Lady, I'm a fan of Cella Chocolate Cherries too, but since I'm not s'posed to eat them, I don't indulge often. I love dark chocolate flavored with orange, raspberry, or Amaretto. Okay, now I'm droolin'. Later, everybody.

Lone Lady, I'm with you and Dottie. Cella Chocolate Cherries are the best, and I love that liquid filling. It just has the most wonderful mouthfeel.

Well, this brings back memories of living in Switzerland, where some grocery stores had a whole aisle devoted to chocolate. I've never liked chocolate covered cherries or anything liquid-filled, but I make an exception for Kirschenstengeli, which are little chocolate batons filled with Kirsch. Wow!

Lissa - Why yes, that would be lovely. I am thinking a nice rorschauch print would be appropriate.

RoCK - Maybe if I mention Lord Marmalade, I'll get an extra ECT session.

Some say it's mystic
It's electric
Boogie woogie, woogie
You can't resist it
It's electric
Boogie woogie, woogie
You can't do without it
It's electric
Boogie woogie, woogie

Shill alert -- double postings at 1:51 PM and 1:53 PM! Please delete them.

...Much communication in a motion
Without conversation or a notion
Avalon...
When the samba takes you
Out of nowhere
And the background's fading
Out of focus
Yes the picture's changing
Every moment
And your destination
You don't know it
Avalon...
When you bossanova
There's no holding
Would you have me dancing
Out of nowhere...

what she said

Another shill at 5:09.

YP, I've had Avelon stuck in my head for two days now!

change the disc!

Joyce - Totally unrelated, but I have had the song "Build me up Buttercup" stuck in my head. Hey, butter, food blog, relevant issue!

For the last 4 years I've had "Let the bodies hit the floor" stuck in my head.

at least it's not Peanut Butter Jelly Time

My friends, as a public service, may I present my favourite anti-earworm

Thank you, Lissa--that takes me back!

"C" is for Cookie that's good enough for me,
"C" is for cookie that's good enough for me,
"C" is for cookie that's good enough for me,
Oh! cookie, cookie, cookie starts with "C"!

Glad to see you are a sister connoisseur of disco-era Muppets, Dahlink. Although Oscar was my favourite.

Trixie, that one gets me sometimes too. And so does, and I knew (I knew I kenw I knew) she could make me happy (happy happy)

Lissa, great vid! Love the muppets.

Buit K is for Kompressor, the greatest artist ever

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dWpn7Z6AcHM

Looking for better Kompressor songs, the greatest German hip-hop industrial artist ever

Kompressor does not dance

I like Kompressor's rendition of "The Girl from Ipanema".

NIce to see you Camille. Where you been?

Oh, I've been around. Nice of you to ask.

Don't you think that cookies, cherries, and chocolate covered cherries could be counted as concupiscent cuisine?

Lisa, I love grouches, too (at least the Muppet variety), but I was especially fond of Bert and Ernie. Were they the first gay couple on children's tv? I also loved Big Bird. Elmo came along way after our Sesame Street era.

I always hated Big Bird. I was a really snooty kid.

Camille, I think you are on to something. Perhaps one could add small cups of coffee?

I hated Big Bird. Very annoying. Gay couples on children's TV? What about Rocky and Bullwinkle? Did Mr. Rogers have a friend, because he sure seemed, ur, you know, ... not that there's anything wrong with that. The Three Stooges always slept in one big bed and were in a club called the Women Hater Society or something.

Wow, I also hated Big Bird. I was always favored Oscar, Cookie Monster and Bert and Ernie.

My wife is always saying that the two of us are Bert and Ernie. She gets to be Ernie because he's fun loving. I get to be Bert because I am evil

C'mon, Owl Meat -- everybody always figured that Boris and Natasha were the hot couple on that show. You never thought of Natasha hooking up with Fearless Leader. (Of course, this being the 1960s, you also never thought of Boris hooking up with Fearless Leader.)

I'll agree that Natasha was hot. Also Cruella DaVille. And Cher, of course. Not that she was a cartoon.

I also had a thing for Marie Osmond. And Mary Tyler Moore.

I wonder if Sesame Street is responsible for furries?

I think the Banana Splits were the original furries.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FtD4mn9CeH4

Now, no bad thoughts about my friend MisterRodgers. He really was a kind and gentle soul.

I'm with *◄:o)╥╥~YumPorchetta on this one. Won't you be my neighbor?

Hi,
I will vote for dark chocolates. I simply love them.