Everything's Better with Chocolate: Difference between revisions

[[File:chocolate-cravings.jpg|link=Food Porn|frame|[[Death by Gluttony|Yes... indulge yourself...]]]]

 

 

 

Plain. Milk. Dark. White. Melted. Hot. Chilled. In small colored spheres. In portable kisses. In bars. In cups. In ice cream. In cake. In donuts. In syrup. In pudding. In spread. [[Up to Eleven|In chocolate]]. With peanut butter. With nuts. With caramel. With raspberries. With blueberries. [[Strawberry Shorthand|With strawberries]]. With cherries. With oranges. With lemons. With bananas. With vanilla. With coffee. With toffee. With mint. With croissants. With churros. With nachos. With chilli. With chicken. With pretzels. With cookies. [[Overly Long Gag|With chocolate]]. [[Deep-Fried Whatever|Deep-fried]]. Good days, bad days, the apocalypse, zombie apocalypse, PMS, pregnancy ([[Wacky Cravings|pickles optional]]), Birthdays, Weddings, Easter, Halloween, Christmas, New Year.

 

[[Truth in Television]], clearly. [[Powered by a Forsaken Child|Except for the child slaves]]. And the cavities caused by the sugar that is often added.

 

== Anime and Manga ==

* ''[[Axis Powers Hetalia]]'': The Valentine's Day strip involves, well, Valentine's Day chocolate. England goes to give America a chocolate bar that he had heard America wanted, but sees that he already has an entire bucket full of chocolate.

== Comic Books ==

* In ''[[ClanDestine]]'', a character with super-enhanced senses absentmindedly accepts a chocolate sweet. He promptly falls into a euphoric topor.

 

== Fan Works ==

* The novelisation of ''[[Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home|Star Trek IV the Voyage Home]]'' states that [[Alien Catnip|sucrose is an intoxicant for Vulcans]]. The [[Star Trek]] fandom somehow decided this meant chocolate, and so there are a lot of fics that involve Spock (or some other Vulcan) getting drunk off chocolate.

 

== Film ==

* ''[[Chocolate]]''... well, it's in the title. (The main character, an autistic girl, is obsessed with candy-coated chocolate.)

* Subverted in the first scenes of ''[[X-Men: First Class|X Men First Class]]''. If anything Klaus Schmidt casually offering a bar of chocolate to Erik {{spoiler|whose mother he will kill in the next few minutes}} made the scene even more sinister.

 

== Literature ==

** In [[Outbound Flight|Survivor's Quest]] he's shown biting into a "choclime twist" after devouring [[Call a Rabbit a Smeerp|tomo-spice ribenes]].

* ''[[Chocolat]]'': The [[Manic Pixie Dream Girl]] woman shakes up an entire town by introducing a chocolate shop.

** This is based on how chocolate is a 'cure' for depression in [[Real Life]]. Rowling was herself depressed at one point and ate chocolate to make herself feel better.

** One book earlier, Dumbledore recommends 'Bed rest, and a nice steaming mug of hot chocolate' {{spoiler|to Ginny after her ordeal in the Chamber}}. 'I always find that cheers ''me'' up.'

** The same book also established Susan has a taste for chocolate, although her iron self-control means she only eats one a day. (Well, only one ''official'' chocolate a day. Obviously, if she takes a nougat by mistake that doesn't count.) She seems to have inherited this from her mother, whose favourite dessert was Genocide By Chocolate.

* [[Young Wizards]], anybody? I mean, chocolate is so valuable it's involved in ''inter-galactic smuggling''.

* In the short story "Strung Out in Alientown" by Desmond Warzel, a woman stranded on an alien world is desperately trying to earn enough money to buy passage back to Earth, but an alien drug dealer stops by every payday to sell her chocolate, which she inevitably spends all her money on.

* Furthermore, Desmond Warzel's short story "You Never Know What You're Gonna Get" features a far-future [http://www.candywrappermuseum.com/whitmans.html Whitman's sampler] with chocolates from Earth, Rigel, and Aldebaran. Not all flavors are recommended for all species...

 

== Live-Action TV ==

* Subverted in Season 5 of ''[[The Amazing Race]]'', where a Roadblock forced teams to bite through 11,000 chocolates looking for one with a white center (of which there were only ''20''). The racers quickly got tired of the chocolate overload.

* Geraldine Granger, the titular [[The Vicar|vicar]] [[The Vicar of Dibley|of Dibley]] loves chocolate. It's her [[Trademark Favorite Food]]. [[Big Eater|she can eat dozens and dozens of bars in one sitting.]]

 

== Music ==

Sex and chocolate go handi n hand

they're the things that make life so grand! }}

 

== Newspaper Comics ==

* In ''[[Peanuts]]'', Snoopy often craves chocolate, despite it being bad for dogs.

 

== Theatre ==

* In ''[[Pygmalion]]'', Prof. Higgins persuades Eliza with a piece of chocolate.

 

== Video Games ==

* In ''[[Plants vs. Zombies]]'', you can feed Stinky the Snail or your plants with chocolate in your Zen Garden, speeding up the money production or Stinky who collects the money for you.

 

* Cecilia from ''[[PHD]]'' has a mild obsession for chocolate, varying with her stress level.

** She keeps an emergency bar taped to the bottom of her desk.

* According to Scarlette's sisters from ''[[Sequential Art (webcomic)|Sequential Art]]'', [http://www.collectedcurios.com/sequentialart.php?s=526f chocolate tastes like happiness.]

* Wally, of ''[[Wally and Osborne]]'', loves it.

 

== Web Original ==

* [[Cake Wrecks]] does not approve of [http://www.cakewrecks.com/home/2011/12/16/mmmm-crunchy.html chocolate covered anything day].

* [[Whateley Universe]]: the rich kids at [[Super-Hero School]] Whateley Academy have their own club, usually known as the Golden Kids. In "Ayla and the Birthday Brawl", Tabby is planning the next big party for the group, which is going to include chocolate ''everything''. The chefs are talking about finger food based around mole, all kinds of chocolate desserts, mochas to drink...

 

== Western Animation ==

* In an episode of ''[[Ben 10]]'', chocolate proves to be the [[Kryptonite Factor]] for alien with [[Flying Brick]] superpowers. Ben finds this out [[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero|after he offers a chocolate bar to him in a gesture of friendship]].

 

* Everything's better with [[Bacon Addiction]]. [[wikipedia:Chocolate-covered bacon|Even chocolate.]]

* Once a former ''[[Big Brother]]'' known as Cacau ("Cocoa") posed for the Brazilian ''[[Playboy]]''... You can probably guess what was smeared on her body by what page this is.

 

== Real Life ==

* Cocoa is actually good for a person. Of course, most chocolate have too much of added sugar and whatnot to offset the health benefits of pure cocoa. Generally, the more pure cocoa, the better.

* As a high energy, easy to carry/package/transport, long shelf life, delicious food, Chocolate is very useful not just as a treat but as a food source for soldiers. In the past South American Warrior Kings to Europeans Generals like Napoleon praised chocolate for its "fortifying" effect, since drinking a cup of chocolate is roughly equivalent to a meal in terms of calories, the sheer convenience of it must have been a blessing. Today chocolate is found even in modern armies as companies like Hershey's make it a point to supply American soldiers with specially adapted chocolates for whatever part of the globe the soldiers get sent. High temp/melt resistant chocolate in the desert ''does'' exist!

* [[Gordon Ramsey]] has a venison steak recipe involving grated dark chocolate. And not just regular dark chocolate, no 77% type stuff.

** It tastes good.

 

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