At 03:15 PM 1/10/01 -0500, les clark wrote:
[snip]
Though some chocolate comes from Brazil, they export it for extra income.
There are some seven grades.
Only the last and least desirable is left for domestic consumption.
Actually, Les, there are some two *hundred* grades of chocolate world-wide
(I know this because I used to date a young lady who worked for Bernard
Callebaut chocolateries here in Canada). Bernard Callebaut, who came to
Alberta from Belgium in the early 1980s, and whose family had been making
Belgian chocolates for five generations, uses only Grade #1. YUM. Not
very sweet (reagrdless of the "darkness" of the chocolate), and with extra
cocoa butter. Damn, they're good. A female friend of mine refers to 'em
as "orgasms in a box."
One Christmas, B.C. had shipped an extra carton of a chocolate known as
"Hexad" (dark chocolate, hazelnut/chocolate cream filling, oh baby) to the
south-side Edmonton store from his head office and chocolaterie in Calgary,
and the proprietor asked me if I wanted it. He charged me $20.00 for the
box, which was approximately 2.5 kgs of the stuff, and worth (at the time)
about $200.00. It was virtually all I ate for the next week -- never got
sick of the stuff!
OM content: yeah, I'm sure I chanted "OM" a few times whilst savouring
those delectables. ;-)
Garth
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