Candy

[alpharaposa]

Yesterday, for Valentine's, I took the day off work and we all went to Colonial Williamsburg to watch them make chocolate the old-fashioned way. In the morning, they roasted the beans. Around noon, they were pounding roasted, shelled beans into pieces and starting to grind them on a heated stone. By the time we left in the afternoon, they had several completed batches and were finishing another. They talked about how chocolate was used as a drink (like tea or coffee, not like hot cocoa). How drinking chocolate was used medicinally for people with sore throats and breathing problems.

Then, I come in to work today, and there is candy on my desk.

I appreciate the thought behind the gifts, but it doesn't appeal to me, anymore. I stopped eating so much sugar, and now the thought of those sugar and starch hearts doesn't appeal at all. The big chocolate heart? I read the ingredients and it was a litany of byproducts and oils. No cocoa butter, just some cocoa. Even the label only said "chocolate flavored".

I can't tell you how sad that made me.

Tomorrow is Monster Day! In the past, I would have eaten V-Day chocolate, but now all I want are veggies and some good dip made with Greek yogurt. I'm officially weird.

Comments

[djinni.livejournal.com]

That is why delicious vegetables are official Monster Day food - because it is not weird to not want a ton of sugar. :D

[haikujaguar.livejournal.com]

Whoo hoo! I can get behind this monster day. :D

[collinsmom.livejournal.com]

I guess that means you will not want the Girl Scout cookies that Dad bought. I told him I did not want them so he said he would send them to you.

[stryck.livejournal.com]

We bought some Girl Scout cookies, but fewer than we used to. Another box or two would be okay, I think.

[tuftears.livejournal.com]

Yay for chocolate factory! ^_^ I've visited one or two, they are pretty nifty.

[laffingkat.livejournal.com]

I don't eat nearly as much chocolate as I used to, and when I do, I try to get something high-quality. But I am more than a little envious that you were able to see them making chocolate at Williamsburg!

[neowolf2.livejournal.com]

Stryck, may I use that icon on another web site? I just like it so much.

[stryck.livejournal.com]

I don't mind. It's not original, but I don't remember where I found it.

[neowolf2.livejournal.com]

ty!