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From: rlr@pyuxn.UUCP (Rich Rosen)
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Subject: Re: What is Chocalate, Cocoa, Carob
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Date: Sat, 3-Dec-83 17:21:07 EST
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Posted: Sat Dec  3 17:21:07 1983
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To quote from the Bible ("Chocolate: The Consuming Passion" by S. Boynton,
Workman Publishing, New York (c) 1982):

"Carob is a brown powder made from the pulverized fruit of a Mediterranean
evergreen.  Some consider carob an adequate substitute for chocolate because
it has some similar nutrients (calcium, phosphorus) and because it can, when
combined with vegetable fat and sugar, be made to approximate the color and
consistency of chocolate.  Of course, the same arguments can as persuasively
be made in favor of dirt."

In the same book there is an equally enlightening explanation of white
chocolate:

"You could unwittingly purchase as "white chocolate" a candy made of sugar,
milk, vanilla and congealed vegetable fat.  However, the very best white
chocolate is easy to identify. [NOTE:  The following explanation only works
if you are at a printing terminal using white paper.  If not, improvise.]
It has an ivory color like this:

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It smells like this:

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                           (scratch & sniff)
                                            <====this part even works on a CRT

And it tastes like this:

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                            (cut & chew)
                                       <==not recommended for CRT users
-- 
					Rich Rosen    pyuxn!rlr