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In the Race
Now, here, you see, it takes all the blogging I can do to keep in the same place. If I want to get somewhere else, I must blog twice as fast as that! You see, I'm in the Red Queen's Race...
Obsession
By Janet Evans
Saturday, Feb 9 2008, 03:45 PM
Wisconsin candy shops, including Beerntsen’s of Green Bay and Manitowoc, Kaap's of Green Bay and Seroogy's of De Pere, have been featured in a New York Times article, “A Tour of Candyland in Wisconsin, Timeless and Sweet.”
In the article titled "A Tour of Candyland in Wisconsin, Timeless and Sweet" in the newspaper’s “Escapes” section, writer Kit Kiefer describes "the Wisconsin Candy Delta" -- a roughly 150-mile perimeter triangle formed by Green Bay, Manitowoc and Oshkosh. Kiefer describes the candy stores in Appleton, De Pere, Green Bay and Oshkosh, “None of these places should exist in the 21st century, doing what they’re doing.
But in eastern Wisconsin, when it comes to chocolates, creamy reality trumps bitter logic.”
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Some of you may believe chocolate is the perfect food.
And it's no wonder chocolate is one of the most popular gifts for Valentine's Day.
Chocolate makes you feel good.
It contains a natural "love potion," Tryptophan."
Tryotophan is a chemical that your brain uses to make a neurotransmitter called serotonin.
If you have high levels of serotonin, you can have feelings of elation, and sometimes ecstasy.
You would probably have to eat a lot of chocolate to have seriously high serotonin levels, though.
Dark Chocolate can be good for you.
It has flavinoids, which help to thin your blood and prevent clots.
If you eat chocolate three times a month, it's thought that you may live a year longer than someone who does not eat chocolate.
But, if you over indulge, you may have a shorter life expectancy, because of the fat content.
All I know is, when I eat a high quality piece of milk chocolate, and savor it, it makes me happy.
And I don't feel guilty. Never.
Not like when I might scoff down a dark chocolate Milky Way bar, and then say, "Why the heck did I do that?"
It took me less time to eat the thing than it did to unwrap it. Wasted calories, that's for sure.
But good quality creamy, milk chocolate.... it's worth every calorie.
So what "chocolate" is your type?
Milk, Dark, White?
With or without nuts?
Solid or cream or fruit filled?
Me...give me the best milk chocolate you can buy...
and for a gourmet candy nothing is more satisfying than a Godiva Open Oyster...
Milk chocolate in the shape of an oyster shell, filled with a hazlenut chocolate praline...heaven!
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