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Valentines’ Day, Or Indeed, Any Day At All
Chocolate is the solution…but at what cost?
Chocolate, one in each hand: it’s a balanced diet in anyone’s books.
Yesterday I went to a house auction. Not a soul was prepared to offer the first bid, and so, after a minute or so, out came the stingiest box of chocolates, the lure, and suddenly the bids were being tossed around like snowflakes.
I didn’t quite get that. Had the first bidder been the only bidder, the house would legally have been his (provided it was at the seller’s agreed on-the-market price), but I mean, a three dollar box of chocolates?
But obviously, we are a shallower species than I had thought. The lure worked, and the winner ended up being the top bidder on a two million dollar home!
We’ve all grown to love chocolate. It used to be a treat. But now, it’s ubiquitous.
It’s a pick-me-up when you’re feeling blue, partners a bottle of wine when you go to a dinner party, and is undoubtedly the language of love.
Emperor Montezuma maintained that an oversupply of chocolate could fend off the need for other food…and had other advantages besides!
‘Historians tell us that every night before going in to cavort with his…
