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With Valentine's Day coming up

Feb 4, 2004 8:02PM PST

--Chocolate is derived from cocoa beans. Beans are a vegetable. Sugar is derived from either sugar cane or sugar beets. Both are plants which places them in the vegetable category, too. Thus we can only conclude that chocolate is a vegetable. To go one step further, chocolate candy bars also contain milk, which is dairy. So candy bars are a health food. Chocolate covered raisins, cherries, orange slices and strawberries all count as fruit, so eat as many as you like.

--If you have melted chocolate all over your hands, you're eating it too slowly.

--The problem: how to get 2 pounds of chocolate home from the store in a hot car. The solution: eat it in the parking lot.

--Diet tip: Eat a chocolate bar before each meal. It'll take the edge off your appetite, and you'll eat less.

--If I eat equal amounts of dark chocolate and white chocolate, is that a balanced meal? Don't they actually counteract each other?

--Chocolate has many preservatives. Preservatives make you look younger.

--Put "eat chocolate" at the top of your list of things to do today. That way, at least you'll get one thing done.

--A nice box of chocolates can provide your total daily intake of calories from one convenient source. Now, isn't that handy?

--If not for chocolate there would be no need for control top pantyhose. An entire garment industry would be devastated. You can't let that happen, can you?

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Re: mmm mmmm I'm lovin' it (nt)
Feb 4, 2004 9:35PM PST

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I have never before seen so much good advice in one post! ;-) --nt
Feb 4, 2004 10:42PM PST

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