Chocolate

Chocolate. Really, is there anything more that needs be said?

Chocolate. It's dark, velvety, smooth, and decadently delicious. Even slightly mysterious. It's been labeled a guilty pleasure. Today we know there is nothing to feel guilty about because chocolate is actually good for you! Can it get any better?

Chocolate. You can eat it as a desert. You can eat it as a snack. You can eat it when you're feeling down and it'll help your brain release endorphins so you'll feel better. You can pair it with other things, like ice cream or stir it into a pot of chili. You can drink it in milk, or in a liquor. You can make something spectacularly rich, eye-poppingly, complicated, or simply dip some fresh, plump, red, ripe strawberries into it. It can be frozen, heated, chipped, whipped, creamed, and stirred into any number of recipes. It's uses seem endless.

Chocolate. It even smells delicious. It's used in body washes, soaps, lotions, and perfumes. There's a chocolate strawberry truffle bubble bath that children should not be allowed to use. Why? Because it smells so wonderful, that even knowing it's bubble bath, it takes extraordinary will power not to lick the bubbles.

Chocolate. It's so highly prized, it's used for gift giving. It's been used as money, as medicine, as a divine energy drink, as well as for sculptures, fountains, and even clothing! But isn't the best just a small square of dark chocolate? With it's promise of mystery, of that velvety, meltingly delicious dark ride into smooth, rich, chocolaty, momentary oblivion.

Chocolate.