Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: chocolate, dark chocolate, FDA, Willy Wonka
I saw this news item and it just hacks me off. The FDA is considering redefining what ingredients can be combined in order to make chocolate. Of course, they are doing this at the behest of big chocolate manufacturers who want to use cheaper ingredients, but still call their product chocolate. Apparently, you can get vegetable oil for around $0.70 per pound, but it can’t be considered real chocolate unless you use the more expensive cocoa butter, which is $2.30 per pound.
Now, I’m no choco-holic, nor am I chocolate snob. But I know good chocolate when I have it. My wonderful expert wife got me turned onto dark chocolate, which we now eat in extreme moderation (cause it’s frickin’ good!). Most of the time, I can tell when there’s a lot of junk in food. It just tastes different than the real deal. Just like I can tell the difference between bottled waters….and yes, spring water is NASTY!
Anyway, this is simply a perversion of a classic dessert and shouldn’t be tolerated. So I’m calling on all my fellow non-experts to lend their keystrokes to the cause and pitch a fit to the FDA. Here’s the page regarding the potential changes, and these are evil GCB’s (that’s greedy chocolate ba$tard$) trying to get by with perverting our chocolate! I say, let’s let them keep their silly “chocolate-flavored” labels and keep chocolate pure. I mean, think of the children! For Willy Wonka’s sake, we have to stop this! Is it not bad enough that most of our food has been processed, enhanced, and artificialized in some way already? No wonder we’re all dying of cancer! We’ve got to have at one pure, unadulterated, uncrappinated, undesignated (ok, it just fit the rhythm…) dessert option, but hey, I’m no expert!
Ok, I haven’t written in a while, but this is so cool, I couldn’t hold off any longer. Most people think of Post-it notes as just those little things you have all over your computer monitor, probably with you ultra-secure passwords written on them for the world to see, right? Well, these guys thought differently. They recreated the entire frickin’ first level of Donkey Kong in the windows of their engineering building. It took them about 5 hours to do and they even have a time lapse video to prove it. All I can say is…dang poopin’.
