But... Money and chocolate makes me smile…

Getting the money all at once can give you a lift, but get/consume the chocolate all at once and just see how you feel!

I figure after eating at most ten bars, the pleasure would decrease exponentially turning rapidly to pain.

And apart the from digestive effects, the weight gain resulting from consuming them would be a HUGE downer for me - a lot more than eating them, even gradually, could ever be.

After all, they're quite affordable, so how come we're not all munching away on them right now?

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Originally posted by Amanda:

After all, they're quite affordable, so how come we're not all munching away on them right now?

Speak for yourself.

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Originally posted by wtg:

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Originally posted by Amanda:

After all, they're quite affordable, so how come we're not all munching away on them right now?

Speak for yourself.

My word, is that really YOUR fridge? If so, I don't know if I'm more impressed by the neatness or the contents!

Perhaps this is a good time to confess my addiction - first to sweets, overall (sets off a metabloic insulin snafu), but above all to chocolate.

So far,not unusual. A single example, though, may show I'm extreme. One year at my boarding HS I lived exclusively off Hershey kisses. Don't remember the oz size bag, but I didn't gain weight because I really ONLY ate them.y, (I still blame the school, in locus parentis indeed!, for negligence. After all, I ate in the dining hall with daily supervision - rather "ate". What's more, despite not putting on weight, I was constantly sick as a result. Literally, I spent nearly as much time in the infirmery as out.

It wasn't until I was in college, and pulling the same thing with a new candy addiction (Zabar's halvah! ) - along with the constant illnesses - that I learned the connection and something about nutrition. My room-mate educated me about the existence of vitamins. Her health-conscious family not only consumed them, but only trusted an organic brand named STURDEE's. Within a few months of taking them, I stopped with the chronic sickness. Then, little by little - but only later! - I began to self-strategize about the sweets addiction.

Only by abstention!, though Nothing else works. I wouldn't dare have chocolate around, much less in bulk, or I would NOT be able to stop. (Once I found a trove of hugely reduced giant Hershey kisses after Valentines Day and bought a half dozen which I stored in the freezer for safety - I thought! Biting off "just the tip" one day - "couldn't hurt"- ended up costing me a $5K dental implant as it snapped off a front tooth. So much for refrigerating/freezing it...

Clearly, you aren't as susceptible to the even just one bite triggering effect. INVU!!

PS But please tell me you only eat it at room temperature, as a true chocolate gourmet!

I haven’t had any chocolate in a very long time. Maybe I’ll have a piece at Christmas.

I miss it.

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PS But please tell me you only eat it at room temperature, as a true chocolate gourmet!

Fear not. That's my basement food storage area. Just open shelving, not a refrigerator.

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Zabar's halvah