Lent Time! Time to fixate on chocolate, since, once again, I can't have any.
The other day (The Time Before Lent), the boss very kindly brought in a plastic container of Hershey's candy and said, "I found these in the back of the pantry. I thought you all might like them." I and the other addicts thanked him profusely. Imagine our dismay when the candy looked like distressed wood. (there was a pic, but it's gone now)
Sigh....You know how I pretend to be classy and say I really only like dark chocolate? And how I poo poo the milk chocolate and announce, with a righteous air, that I'm not going to waste the calories on the pedestrian chocolate by the checkout counter? Confession time: I do like dark chocolate the best, but truthfully, I will eat any chocolate. Snickers, Reese's Peanut Butter Cups, Almond Joys, chocolate filled with liquor, even calcium injected chocolate tastes good to me!
There was no chocolate I wouldn't eat.
Until the other day.
Shocked at the fact that chocolate could look utterly unappetizing, I asked how long the chocolate had been in the back of the pantry. His answer: "I don't know... 5 years? Maybe more?"
FIVE YEARS! Chocolate was around for FIVE YEARS? I wonder if he and his family are ascetic. I can't be around chocolate for 5 minutes without devouring it.
Vive la différence, obviously, but I'm having a hard time wrapping my head around the concept of forgotten chocolate.
39 more days.
The other day (The Time Before Lent), the boss very kindly brought in a plastic container of Hershey's candy and said, "I found these in the back of the pantry. I thought you all might like them." I and the other addicts thanked him profusely. Imagine our dismay when the candy looked like distressed wood. (there was a pic, but it's gone now)
Sigh....You know how I pretend to be classy and say I really only like dark chocolate? And how I poo poo the milk chocolate and announce, with a righteous air, that I'm not going to waste the calories on the pedestrian chocolate by the checkout counter? Confession time: I do like dark chocolate the best, but truthfully, I will eat any chocolate. Snickers, Reese's Peanut Butter Cups, Almond Joys, chocolate filled with liquor, even calcium injected chocolate tastes good to me!
There was no chocolate I wouldn't eat.
Until the other day.
Shocked at the fact that chocolate could look utterly unappetizing, I asked how long the chocolate had been in the back of the pantry. His answer: "I don't know... 5 years? Maybe more?"
FIVE YEARS! Chocolate was around for FIVE YEARS? I wonder if he and his family are ascetic. I can't be around chocolate for 5 minutes without devouring it.
Vive la différence, obviously, but I'm having a hard time wrapping my head around the concept of forgotten chocolate.
39 more days.
