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3 years ago
If you carefully chew off the ears each year your children will grow to believe in the Easter Gopher.
HariSeldon has written 2 entries about this goal
I guess I should start with my normal 72% Cocoa-mass Belgium. Very dark to the eye, very firm to the teeth, no room for sugar or wax, almost too hard to bite, you concentrate in anticipation on how long it takes for the chocolate to melt in your mouth, you have to let it melt from the warmth of your mouth, feeling the change of texture as it warms, suddenly releasing it’s aroma into your mouth and nose, the tongue suddenly starting to taste, rub your tongue on the roof of your mouth and feel the smooth texture of the fine chocolate, as it coat your taste buds and making it more difficult to taste subtle notes, then the chocolate chemical ecstacy kicks in.
phenethylamine is similar to amphetamine in its structure and rewarding properties in the central nervous system It may act by increasing attention and alertness mechanisms in the brain, by raising blood pressure and blood glucose levels, potentiating dopamine and norepinephrine, which have connections to the reward pathway of the limbic system, methylxanthines, such as caffeine and theobromine, which act as antagonists at inhibitory adenosine receptors, the caffeine is present in chocolate in much lower concentrations than theobromine. There is a possibility that theobromine may also have addictive properties, and thus chocolate craving may represent an attempt to alleviate withdrawal from either of the methylxanthines Researchers have also found tyramine in chocolate, which is known to have varied effects throughout the menstrual cycle.
