Favorite Chocolate Positions?

[TheSilverKnight]

Vanilla Ice Cream
Chocolate bars inside the Vanilla Ice Cream
Caramel and Chocolate Sauce poured over the ice cream...
Yum...

[Blodrast]

I rarely (and then only because it would be impolite to do otherwise, i.e. hurt the host's feelings) eat anything sweet unless it's made of chocolate (at least mostly, if not entirely).

Following where Beirut left, there's hardly anything better than lying in bed late at night reading a good book and stuffing your face with chocolate...which usually has to be almonds/hazelnuts-based...
I usually go all the way, too: if you start it, finish it ;) so no half-chocolates in my cabinets ;)

A rich chocolate milk, steamy hot with roughly half a ton of sugar (if the chocolate powder not sweet enough already) is great too.

Oh, and my grandma used to cook these delicious cakes, basically dough, chocolate, syrup (i.e. water & sugar mostly), and more chocolate. The platter would barely fit in our fridge (well, we had a small fridge, true).

[Kraellin]

ah, the blessings of chocolate. there's a cake they make around here (and prolly other places too) called 'better than sex'. yup, it's a cake, very chocolatey, and it really is a race between the two as to which is better.

mocha coffee was my favorite for a long time. i still enjoy it from time to time.

and there was this little ice cream parlor kind of place in ann arbor michigan, in Arborland (one of the malls), that served a hollow pie crust ball, cut in half, filled with ice cream, usually vanilla, and smothered in hot chocolate that was to go out of your way for. i believe they called them chocolate cream puffs. sadly, they went out of business quite a few years ago :(

but, and this is going to surprise some of you, my favorite chocolate drink i learned about on a golf course. at about the 12th hole on the course they had a little refreshment stand. the favored drink was half Vernor's gingerale and half chocolate milk. the mix of those two is really quite enjoyable.

and Hires Root Beer stands in MIchigan served 'black cows', which was a mix of Hires root beer and chocolate ice cream. also quite good.

and the Hershey's semi-sweets are one of those that i tend to savor, just letting it melt in my mouth and sort of ooze into my pores.

and i forget the brand name, but it was one of those heart shaped boxes you see around valentine's day, large and filled with mixed centers. one of those brands had some cherry, raspberry, and strawberry filled chocolates that there was just too good to give the box to your girlfriend, even though that's why you supposedly bought it ;)

K.

[Louis de la Ferte Ste Colombe]

Short of exchanging pets around, there are few other ways one can meet or improve relationships with one's neighbour beside giving chocolate. A neighbour might forgive some lawn trampling and depredation of his landscape with enough chocolate.

In case I got to be the target of your goodwill and you are willing to give me some chocolate so that I excuse your multiple faults, let me lay out my preferences;

- dark, dark, dark. It got to be dark. 70% is a good number, the more the better. If it's sweet, it ain't chocolate.
- do NOT mix chocolate with anything else. No nuts, no berries, nothing. If you really, really want to give some fruity touch to chocolate, I might consider chocolate and orange, or citrus.
Milk chocolate is an heresy, white chocolate an insult; neither would improve your standing with me.
- if you want to cook with chocolate, you ought to consider my dear mum "failed chocolate cake". An utter failure she won't display outside of the family. The chocolate kind of all glue together, and the cake change into a big chocolate crumble with some nuts of intense chocolate it in. Nap it with some vanilla light cream...

There is no upper limit to the amount of chocolate you can give me. Be sure, I'll be gratefull until I need some more.

Louis,