Chocolate and Candy

   -    The chocolate and candy you give or receive probably were made
    in one of our nation's manufacturing establishments. In 1995, 169
         such establishments employing 10,200 people produced chocolate
    and cocoa products. These manufacturers shipped $3.3 billion
         worth of goods that year. Meanwhile, 762 U.S. establishments,
         employing 53,700 people, manufactured candy and other
         confectionary products. They shipped $11.3 billion worth of goods.

   -    In many respects, Pennsylvania could be called the nation's
    sweetest state. It has more establishments making candy and other
    confectionary products (83) and chocolate and cocoa products (25)
    than any other state. The Keystone State also leads the way in the
         number of persons employed in establishments manufacturing
    chocolate and cocoa products, 4,891   about four times more than
    the next leading state, Wisconsin, with 1,294. Pennsylvania trails
    Illinois, however, in employees who make candy and other
         confectionary products -- 7,289 compared with 13,006.

   -    Then again, these sugary delights could have been made somewhere
    outside the United States. Between January and October, 1997, the
    United States imported $250.1 million worth of chocolate from
    Canada, more than from anywhere else. Likewise, the United
         Kingdom was the leading supplier of non-chocolate candy to the
    United States during the same period, with shipments totaling

Source: U.S. Census Bureau
http://www.census.gov/Press-Release/fs98-02.html

An elderly man lay dying in his bed.
In death's agony, he suddenly smelled the aroma of his favorite chocolatechip cookies wafting up the stairs.
He gathered his remaining strength, and lifted himself from the bed.Leaning against the wall, he slowly made his way out of the bedroom, andwith even greater effort forced himself down the stairs, gripping therailing with both hands. With labored breath, he leaned against the doorframe, gazing into the kitchen.
Were it not for death's agony, he would have thought himself already inheaven: there, spread out upon newspapers on the kitchen table wereliterally hundreds of his favorite chocolate chip cookies.
Was it heaven? Or was it one final act of heroic love from his devotedwife, seeing to it that he left this world a happy man?
Mustering one great final effort, he threw himself toward the table,landing on his knees in a rumpled posture. His parched lips parted; thewondrous taste of the cookie was already in his mouth; seemingly bringinghim back to life.
The aged and withered hand, shockingly made its way to a cookie at theedge of the table, when it was suddenly smacked with a spatula by his wife.
"Stay out of those," she said, "they're for the funeral."



Last edited by goodegirl on Fri Jan 20, 2006 8:20 am; edited 1 time in total

1. If you've got melted chocolate all over your hands, you're eating it too slowly.
2. Chocolate covered raisins, cherries, orange slices and strawberries all count as fruit, so eat as many as you want.
3. The problem: How to get two pounds of chocolate home from the store in a hot car. The solution: Eat it in the parking lot.
4. Diet tip: Eat a chocolate bar before each meal. It'll take the edge off your appetite and you'll eat less.
5. If calories are an issue, store your chocolate on top of the fridge. Calories are afraid of heights, and they will jump out of the chocolate to protect themselves.
6. If I eat equal amounts of dark chocolate and white chocolate, is that a balanced diet? Don't they actually counteract each other?
7. Money talks. Chocolate sings.
8. Chocolate has many preservatives. Preservatives make you look younger.
9. Put "eat chocolate" at the top of your list of things to do today. That way, at least you'll get one thing done.
10. A nice box of chocolates can provide your total daily intake of calories in one place. Isn't that handy?
11. If you can't eat all your chocolate, it will keep in the freezer. But if you can't eat all your chocolate, what's wrong with you?

Chocolate is derived from cocoa beans.
Bean = vegetable.

Sugar is derived from either sugar cane or sugar BEETS.
Both of them are plants, in the vegetable category.
Thus, chocolate is a vegetable.

To go one step further, chocolate candy bars also contain milk,
which is dairy. So, candy bars are a health food.

Chocolate-covered raisins, cherries, orange slices and strawberries all count as fruit, so eat as many as you want.

Remember:
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That's why I had to pass this on - - - I didn't want to risk it.

I'm moving to Pennsylvannia. I wanna get sucked up the chocolate pipe like Augustus Gloop. Also I want to tell the Oompa Loompas I hate them