I don't get it... part 2: chocolate

[altivo]

Meme concept courtesy of toy_dragon.


Name one ideology, belief, idea, concept, or theory that you personally just cannot "get" and copy this to your own journal. This has nothing to do with whether you respect it or not, approve or not, agree or disagree, admire or loath it. So the point here isn't to inspire a rant about something (at least, not too much) - just to point out something you fundamentally cannot grasp. In short, a thing that just doesn't work for you in the brain stem. (For example, a heterosexual person who is entirely fine with homosexuality may not personally comprehend what it feels like to be homosexual because, well, they're not.)


My first response to this was "football as a religion" which certainly has bugged me for all of my adult life, but it's very American and parochial.

Something else I've never been able to grasp. Chocolate. I am utterly immune to the sighs and moanings of pleasure, the cravings, the need, the whatever-it-is that seems to create chocophilia and chocomania in most of the population. So, it's chocolate. So? It's OK, but nothing that exciting. It certainly doesn't assuage feelings of hurt, or make me feel wanted or loved, or anything else that I crave. I'm not likely to bother even to go into the next room to get some, let alone travel halfway across the state or send away by mail with my hard-earned cash for some overpriced bit of fat and sugar.

This applies to all forms of chocolate: chocolate chip cookies are one that I encounter frequently. Everyone else finds them irresistible, while I'd usually prefer any other kind of cookie over those.

Interestingly, I've asked many chocolate addicts to explain it to me, and listened patiently to their ravings. But that's all they are to me, ravings. Nothing coherent has come of it, and I'm still utterly in the dark with respect to the brown sticky stuff.

Comments

[1-broken-toy.livejournal.com]

Well, a later post suggests you simply don't like chocolate period! :D But I digress (and read ahead)...

I like chocolate, but I'm not an addict. At no time did I ever "have to have" or "need" chocolate. It was just always a flavor my tongue could enjoy, but there are so many of those... I rarely get around to eating chocolate.

Now I did yesterday have an undenyable craving for Oreos, but that's because I was watching those commarcials where old people were teaching little kids the whole "dunking" thing and I got all nostalgic because I'm a sympathetic softie. :}

[altivo.livejournal.com]

No, I don't dislike chocolate. But if you offer me 52 flavors of ice cream and 40 of them are some kind of chocolate (about the way it usually seems to me) I'm likely to choose one of the other 12. I'm just puzzled by all the hoopla about chocolate. To me it's rather ho hum.

Oreos are too sweet. I can stand one or two Sunshine Hydrox cookies now and then, but a whole package would be way too many. I'd rather have oatmeal raisin or coconut or molasses cookies any day. ;)

I actually enjoy boxed chocolates, but not because of the chocolate itself. I like the variety of fillings. A rich caramel is a much more erotic experience to me than anything chocolate could ever be. The best place for chocolate, in my opinion, is dark bitter chocolate as a wrapper for mint cream. Like the old Mason mint or what is generically called a chocolate peppermint patty. The stronger and hotter the peppermint the better, I say.

[ruwhei.livejournal.com]

Chocolate is a bandaid, no matter what they say :)

[altivo.livejournal.com]

Is that what I was supposed to do with it? I thought people ate the stuff. Smearing it on wounds never even occurred to me. Guess I should read the directions, eh?