Candy Bars for Dinner

In 1579, English pirates raided a Spanish ship.

  Upon finding it's cargo of precious cocoa beans they burned the whole ship.  They mistook the beans for sheep dung.






That would never happen today.


I have chocolate on my mind, because my friend Liz, who has a big sweet tooth,  called this morning to tell me she ate two Hersey bars and some chocolate covered pretzels for dinner last night. She said this was the first time, or maybe the second time,  she had ever done this. Liz is the kind that always wants to order dessert first when she eats in a restaurant. "What? It's the best part!" she always says.

We found  the above story on line because Liz asked for confirmation that chocolate was "some kind of fruit or vegetable, right?"  She was trying to justify her actions.

It turns out, according to the Internet, chocolate is really a seed. Liz figures that the chocolate may have had more nutritional value than the corn dogs she had fed her family a few nights ago, and maybe she's right. Especially, she said, because she had a glass of red wine to go with her dinner.

"All those antioxidants!"  Liz was getting into it. "Maybe next time I'll have an Almond Joy instead.  You know, for the coconuts and almonds.  Coconuts are great for you and so are Almonds!" 

Well, she's not wrong.

 

 

I did say that if she does this again sometime-she could really even things out by having a vegetable for dessert.  She said I was a buzz-kill.