0k maybe this is a better angIe

u can see y0ur 0wn p0st and that the ch0c remains un-0pen

Save the Green and Blacks migsy...I can make some great chocolate muffins with those. Ahh moist and gooey...

wiII check expiry date

by the way I rem0ved s0me pics as reaIised it w0uId 0therwise get t00 tempting f0r many

pIus d0nt wanna draw attenti0n 0f r0bbers

on the 0ther hand - rather than me saving the Ione bar that I have, u C0UID bring ME s0me?

Only if ya behaves yourself. I have this picture of Thai customs officers with sticky chocolatey fingers all smiling happily as smokie rages at them....

Only if ya behaves yourself.

when havent I

I have this picture of Thai customs officers with sticky chocolatey fingers all smiling happily as smokie rages at them....

and I have this mem0ry 0f me checking thr0ugh cust0ms at a certain c0untry - had t0 decIare f00d items

sh0wed them my hand Iuggage

the cust0ms guy I00ked at my bag, Iaughed, I00ked again, then whiIe Iaughing grabs a few bars 0ut and starts caIIing c0IIeagues t0 c0me 0ver f0r a I00k

a few 0f them gathered r0und and j0ined in the fun and Iaughter - every n0w and then turning t0 j0ke with me ab0ut 'ms, y0u kn0w that we have ch0c0Iates in this c0untry?"

aII with nice charming smiIes 0fc0urse

Haha

I once brought 40 Harrods Christmas puddings through Suvarnabhumi along with a whole truckle of Colston Basset stilton and 3 bottles of Taylors 40 year old port.

Forgot to mention the four boxes of Celebrations...doh...!

That was a humdinger of a party I can tell ya!

0ff t0pic!

theres n0 ch0c0Iates 0n that Iist!

bringing f00d int0 - 0r 0ut 0f - thaiIand is n0t t00 hard

taking f00d stuff int0 0ther c0untries are harder!

as per my ch0c0Iates exampIe

I had a couple of big Toblerone bars as well...but I ate them myself...shhh

not sharing chocolates makes you fat

thats why I always share mine

One of our students just arrived back from Finland and seems custom now for anyone coming back from Europe to bring Chocolates with them, usually Sweden or now Finland. Never had Finnish chocolate but these were delicious. Went back the next day for 2nds ... all gone.

P Tywais, usually you always get two? one for you and one for me - or at least thats what you tell me!

notice its called geisha?

now...speaking of sticky fingers...someone sent me this link

chocolate bath

looks rather disgusting to be honest

the green n black wont last longer than mid March.....

so no muffin for me I think

now my current obsession these days is the Pods

Im sure I have posted about these before

but here are some reminder pics

(and found a vid ad!)

the green n black wont last longer than mid March.....

so no muffin for me I think

Don't worry migsy...I'll post some muffin pics here!

P Tywais, usually you always get two? one for you and one for me - or at least thats what you tell me!

notice its called geisha?

now...speaking of sticky fingers...someone sent me this link

chocolate bath

looks rather disgusting to be honest

the green n black wont last longer than mid March.....

so no muffin for me I think

Loose lips sink ships Mig.I got a 5 pound Hershey chocolate bar as a present.

Loose lips sink ships Mig.I got a 5 pound Hershey chocolate bar as a present.

trying to figure out how much is 5 pounds - that will determine how nice I have to be to roo

Don't worry migsy...I'll post some muffin pics here!

the usual meanie

gets my hopes up...and then....crash boom bang!!

Just now, I read about the book "Adventures with Chocolate: 80 Sensational Recipes". Making your own truffles seems quite messy, but I see that the author has a shop in Islington where he sells his creations and as I shall be in London later this year I am putting it on my itinerary.

yummm!

I get hopping mad whenever I see a news report about a scientific study, on any subject, without giving a link to the jounal where the study was published. Nobody does, neither tabloids nor broadsheets.

Chocolate can 'help you slim'

EATING chocolate could help make you slim, a study suggests.

The research shows that adults who ate a modest amount of the sweet treat more often were thinner and had a lower body mass index than those who ate less.

They also tended to eat more and did not exercise frequently.

The University of California study using 1,000 men and women suggests that the benefits to a person's metabolism of eating chocolate could offset any fat put on by having the snack.

And research leader Professor Beatrice Golomb said: "Our findings appear to add to a body of information suggesting that the composition of calories, not just the number of them, matters for determining their ultimate impact on weight.

"In the case of chocolate, this is good news — both for those who have a regular chocolate habit, and those who may wish to start one."

Source:

www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/4219998/Chocolate-can-help-you-slim-University-of-California-study-says.html

The researcher, Beatrice Golomb, seems to have an

impressive curriculum vitae, but I would have liked to find out who funded this research.

I have found out a little more, in a German-language newspaper, about this chocolate research by Prof Beatrice Golomb.

• Published in Archives of Internal Medicine
  
• 1018 test persons, of whom two-third were men
  
• Average age: 57 years
  
• Average BMI: 28
  
• Ate chocolate twice per week
  
• On average did sport 3.6 times per week
  

Conclusion: I should have posted this in the "I'm Too Fat Forum", since BMI 25–30 means overweight.

Here's a news article in a more reputable paper about the study: www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/news/fullstory_123396.html

The bottom line seems to be that if you are fat and eat chocolate you are likely to weigh a teeny bit less than those who are fat and do not eat chocolate.

LOL

even without the further analysis you kindly obtained for us, even "I" would not have bought that story about chocolates helping people slim

I wish!!!

if that were the case then Id prolly have the best body in the world ----or I might just be all bones

You just need to share it out a bit more fairly migsy!

I'll get my coat...

I do share

you know I do

(Would have saved the green n black for you - albeit for slightly selfish reason, expecting it to miraculously turn to some sorta brownie someone talked about ) but it cant wait anymore!)

So much chocolate...so little time....

Just wundrin if we have had this most enjoyable looking event in here.

Just needs some DAIRY WHIP....... yaaaaaas......!!!!!!!

i actually think thats kinda yucky

roo sent something similar...

6 April 2012

Chocolate printer to go on sale after Easter

The researchers say the printer is very easy to use

The UK scientists who developed a prototype chocolate printer last year say they have now perfected it.

They hope to have the machine on sale at the end of April - just missing the Easter egg rush.It would allow chocolate lovers to print their own custom-made sweets, layer by layer.

It would allow chocolate lovers to print their own custom-made sweets, layer by layer.

Read more: www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-17623424

You reported about the prototype last year didn't you meastro

Posted with a chocolate munching machine

That was another story: Le Whif. Hurry and apply for the sole distribution rights in Thailand

In early April I posted about a chocolate printer, invented at a UK university, and today I found some videos about it on YouTube. The machine is not on sale yet but a company named Choc Edge Limited seems to be working on its production and is taking pre-orders for version 1. GBP 2,488 is a bit hefty for me but hopefully the price will come down as demand increases. Don't see why it should cost much more than an inkjet printer.

http://www.chocedge.com/

Maestro re your post #528, et al, I fail to see how that can be? Is it related to a particular type of chocolate only? Does chocolate have the effect of somehow eliminating portions of fat from the body? Presumably the fact that most chocolate is sweetened wouldn't make much of a difference? Since you seem to have done some looking into this particular issue, it would be interesting to know the reason for the effect. (Presumably, this doesn't mean that wolfing down a large bar of Nestlé every day would be a good idea...)