Isn't it embarrassing to see people get all emotional over chocolate?

Question

I had a chocolate cake at Damon's in Ann Arbor one day, and the waiter checked to see if I liked it with inordinate enthusiasm. He said no one had complained yet.

Pardon me, but not everybody either gushes over chocolate or hates it. It's a piece of cake, for pete's sake. I had a tootsie roll just now, and angels didn't sing.

Actually, I am, murphy. But yet, I'm not a girl, unlike my mysterious avatar.

Answer 1

LOL yeah

Answer 2

ANDDDDD...there are some really rational reasons to gush over chocolate, besides the fact that it tastes amazing. In the last five years, numerous scientific studies attempting to solve the mystery of humanity's obsession with chocolate, have shown the stuff to contain many chemicals that soothe some parts of the brain or stimulate other parts the same way that narcotics such as marijuana and bourbon do. Chocolate cantains cannibinols and chemicals similar to opiates. Chocolate's chemicals occupy some of the same cell receptors as the ones which manufacture the brain's natural "feel happy" drugs. If it weren't for the fact that most chocolate has a lot of fat in it, I bet doctors would prescribe it for depression and stress and sexual dysfunction (sounds like one post above uses it for this!!) and all manner of physical ailments. I bet one reason humans (and other animals) feel such enormous pleasure from eating chocolate, even craving it and fantzsiziing about it, is that our bodies are genetically hard-wired to seek out its beneficial, (and legal!), chemistry and the great taste is our reward! Science indicates that people might seek chocolate and grow dependant on it the way some people become obsessed with alcohol and dope. Think about it. Of all of the substances humans commonly ingest, how many are ever craved with the intensity and joy and delirium similar to chocolate? The only ones I can think of are booze and dope--then chocolate must be third. Maybe your enthusiastic and annoying waiter was trying to earn a big enough tip from you to feed his own chocoholism!!!

Answer 3

I used to think the same thing until I had some true Galler Belgium chocolate from Belgium. I remember angels singing and I almost cried it was sooo good!! And not hershey bar good when you eat the whole thing and don't really remember it. I can sit and savor a single piece of belgium chocolate for a 1/2 hour and be in total bliss!!

Answer 4

But that's Tootsie Rolls do not contain chocolate. I like the Hershey bar ads where the girl just jumps the guy for giving her a candy bar. I've given out a lot of chocolate but never have gotten that reaction.

Answer 5

Well, I think I may be a bad one then cause I love chocolate I even take a can of frosting to bed just to smear it all over my body .My husband sure goes crazy over chocolate! But it is annoying when the waiter does that but what I hate the most is when you get your food and it looks different than on the menu picture and the waitress says " ENJOY".

Answer 6

No singing angels, huh? Well, not over a tootsie roll, certainly. But there are chocolate experiences that far exceed singing angels, great sex, a hole in one, and a perfect game. You, obviously, are so out of touch with your emotions, you won't even give in to the seduction of a fine, dark Godiva. I bet you're dry-eyed at weddings and funerals, too. ;)

Answer 7

It's the job of the waiter to gush over it! He was hoping you liked it so much that you'll leave him a big tip.

Answer 8

There are snobs in food service just like anywhere else. I love it once a month, and indifferent to it the rest of the time ... whether it's Godiva or M&Ms.

Answer 9

It's only embarrassing if they don't share their chocolate.

Answer 10

not really