Everything's Better with Chocolate: Difference between revisions

* 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.