Chocolate Lament

Is it possible to resist chocolate?

I only know a few people who claim not to like chocolate, and I consider all of them suspect. My mother included. How can you not love it? It's sweet, but a little bitter, creamy and fatty and rich as butter. It melts in your mouth and coats every taste bud. It's like eating sex.

It's doubly hard to resist when your best friend in the whole wide world works in a chocolate factory ("I'm an Oompa-Loompa," she cheerfully says) and when Christmas time at work means all our suppliers plying us with wave after wave of cocoa-soaked treats as a ploy to keep us in their grip for the coming year. I'm not ashamed to admit, it works.

Like a lot of people, I'm trying to watch what I ingest, trying to be more mindful of my health and all that jazz, but the fermented, sweetened offing of the cacao plant is my trigger, the one thing I can't say no to.

I think I'll have a truffle now ;-)