Chocolate.

[senanserat]

Do you like it? I love it but I have to restrain myself to avoid pulling a Kissing (refer to my other thread here).

What about you? Do you love it? Hate it?

In my opinion how one compress the very essence of the universe into a chocolate is a question for someone far more learned that I. Chocolate is the meaning of life if there is a good he made us so we could create chocolate and Piano.

I demand a piano with chocolate keyboard! NOW!

[rachmaninoff_forever]

My first piano teacher would give me tons of chocolate during our lessons.

[Bob]

I've been trying to eat more pure chocolate.  I can handle 70%.  100% takes too barky/bitter to me still.

[senanserat]

My first piano teacher would give me tons of chocolate during our lessons.

She succeeded in creating an addicting subconscious bond between pleasure (chocolate) and piano playing.

[outin]

I do like chocolate but have no craving for it, not the way I do for salmiak... If the black keys were made of it I could be licking the piano while playing 

[faulty_damper]

Chocolate isn't all created equal.  Hershey's is disgusting.  Guittard is sublime.  High quality chocolate is like high quality wine; the taste and texture can leave your tongue lingering with the aroma long after it's in your stomach.  But what's nice about chocolate is that complex flavors can be coaxed out of the beans depending on the roasting process.  Flavors such as cinnamon or banana nut bread can be had.

I started a thread about chocolate a long time ago here.  At the time I thought that a Swiss chocolate brand, Lindt, was really good.  I was so wrong.  It's pretty disgusting to me now and I consider it candy rather than chocolate.

Edit: Here is the thread.  I can't believe I was so naive!
https://www.pianostreet.com/smf/index.php?topic=3650.0

[the_fervid_pig]

I used to think I liked chocolate, I think I still do, though I still have an Easter egg in the fridge.

[evitaevita]

Do you love it?

YES!!! 
But I avoid it, as well as sweets generally, because of some health issues.

My first piano teacher would give me tons of chocolate during our lessons.

Oh! That's pretty funny, because, in every piano lesson, my teacher is coming with chocolate bars, biscuits, donuts, fruit juices, ice creams, coffees, cakes, sweets, etc. And he not only eats them, but he also offers to me and I feel uncomfortable having to refuse his offer most of the time. 

P.S. He manages to maintain a healthy weight btw!...  But I'm not really about high blood sugar, etc.!

[Bob]

Dark baking chocolate has less calories than milk chocolate.

[lostinidlewonder]

Chocolate..... say it again?

[senanserat]

Chocolate..... say it again?

I remain stoic, I know chocolate won't harm the same way Fiendyre won't harm me if I manage to put it under control.

[h_chopin148]

I love toblerone and Cadbury chocolate. My piano teacher has toblerone chocolate during lessons sometimes and always offers it to me. 

[ted]

I keep a couple of big bars of Whittaker's chocolate on hand, usually coconut rough or hazelnut. Whittakers is not as sickly sweet as Cadbury's or imported brands, or so it seems to me. I like a few pieces of it prior to training if my energy is low. In general though I rarely eat anything very sweet such as cakes and lollies. I did as a child but my mother kept on reminding me that the family of one of my grandparents had many diabetics, so to keep her quiet I reduced sugar intake to a minimum in my teens and have never consumed it in any large quantity since. My father used to have a big bowl of ice cream, cream and sugar every other night for decades and had type two diabetes at eighty. I don't know if there is a connection, or even if I inherited the propensity at all. I don't think one bar of chocolate a month is going to do much though.

[senanserat]

I feel tempted now...for soe Nutella perhaps

[h_chopin148]

I feel tempted now...for soe Nutella perhaps

Ehh, that stuff isn't that good imo.