Heroin. Coming to a Starbucks near you.

[Deuce 1]

OK, I just got back from a focus group. This one was done by Starbucks for a new product they've got coming out called "liquid chocolate".

Oh my freaking godallmighty. It is a hot chocolate product and is distilled chocolate perfection. Like 6 ounces of the best chocolate decadence cake you have ever eaten, but in a hot, creamy, delicious beverage.

Having grown up in a house full of women, and then having gone and created another one, I understand the soothing, healing power that chocolate has upon women from time to time.

This "liquid chocolate" stuff could bring about peace in our time. Fellas, when your lady is all impossible to figure out, you bring her one of these and a single rose and it may not be all fixed, but it will get you through to a time when it is.

And I got paid for the experience. Noice!

[turtlespeed 226]

You made MORE OF THEM!!!?

Thanks for the info. Any idea when they will be released?

I'm not usually into the whole 3-way thing, but you got me a little excited with that. - Skymama
BTR #1 / OTB^5 Official #2 / Hellfish #408 / VSCR #108/Tortuga/Orfun

[Deuce 1]

THey had it down to two versions, and I liked the one that was a little less sweet. Probably have it out for the holiday shopping season, which is starting.

Just awesome stuff. I avoid sugar pretty hard, but that little treat would be the bomb after a late movie.

[skymama 37]

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Fellas, when your lady is all impossible to figure out, you bring her one of these and a single rose and it may not be all fixed, but it will get you through to a time when it is.

Yummy, that sounds like Heaven.

She is Da Man, and you better not mess with Da Man,
because she will lay some keepdown on you faster than, well, really fast. ~Billvon

[batbex 0]

seriously - it's not fair, you can't say things like that and not say when they're available, my christ it sounds good - it's legal, not damaging to your health and doesn't involve any level of emotional commitment
I hope they release it in europe too - although florentine hot chocolate has been described as sex in a mug - so it may have a competitor

[lizzieb 0]

that sounds fabulous...

mmmm....liquid chocolate...mmmmm

[Deuce 1]

Seriously. I'm tasting this stuff and I'm thinking of all my choc-o-holic buds, Like my Mrs, and B-Squared, and the Leeses, and Skymama, and I'm thinking:

"This stuff could get me out of ANYTHING"

[kai2k1 0]

I hope its soon, my wife is bitchy already.

There's no truer sense of flying than sky diving," Scott Cowan

[andy2 0]

[QUOTE]my wife is bitchy already[/QUOTE]

LOL!

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let my inspiration flow,
in token rhyme suggesting rhythm...

[moodyskydiver 0]

You better update this when you find out the release date or you're gonna have some mad females talking mean about you in the women's forum.

Anyone wanting to get into my good graces can do so by bringing me some of this liquid chocolate...or Godiva, or a Starbucks white chocolate mocha latte w/whipped cream.yummy!Of course the traditional massage or feeding me jello shots will work nicely too.

Great! Now I'm craving chocolate..time to raid the pantry.

"...just an earthbound misfit, I."

[Michele 1]

Since I've got no-one to go get any for me, that may indeed explain the occasional bitchiness I display. However! A chocolate cure-all from my favorite overpriced, expensive "don't-call-it-coffee" shop is eagerly anticipated.

You know what they did, though?

"They", those unnamed evil, duplicitous nefarious mean sunso*b*'s put a great Barnes and Noble with Starbucks in the same store....and they encourage you to drink, read, and spend all your money. They accept all credit cards.

Drat.

Ciels-
Michele

~Do Angels keep the dreams we seek
While our hearts lie bleeding?~

[champu 1]

while you're waiting... may I recommend the next best thing to skydiving?

[Michele 1]

Thanks, a lot, Champu!

I appreciate it. Really. I mean that. (Hey, where's the "I'm serious" icon???).

Just to let you all understand the depth of my chocolate addiction, I informed my Boss he is no longer allowed to bring in the Belgian Choclates he sets out for everyone. When pressed to give him an answer as to why not, I told him simply "I eat them. Stick to black licorice. I hate that" and flounced out of his office. He laughed. He doesn't realize I'm serious. (Yes, well, the "flouncing" sorta killed the effect, but whatever.).

So yeah, thanks, Champu.



Ciels-
Michele

~Do Angels keep the dreams we seek
While our hearts lie bleeding?~

[Deuce 1]

Then Michele, when you have one of these you might actually be sated. I took a nap this afternoon (a benefit of being grossly underemployed) and when I woke up I smelled like chocolate. You know, like when you eat a ton of garlic you wake up and you smell like garlic?

Brutal. But I kind of figured it would generate more interest out of the ladies than guys. Every office I've ever worked in, it was the ladies who were really keen about good chocolate. It's supposed to go for $2.65 for a 6 oz serving. I thought it seemed kind of expensive, but they will probably give the first serving for free.

Like any good pusher.

[Michele 1]

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when I woke up I smelled like chocolate. You know, like when you eat a ton of garlic you wake up and you smell like garlic?

The example I thought you were going to use had nothing to do with garlic....

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It's supposed to go for $2.65 for a 6 oz serving. I thought it seemed kind of expensive, but they will probably give the first serving for free.

Then I got three words....

Bring.
It.
On.

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Like any good pusher.

Hell, let's just blame Hersheys. My first love - Hershey's Special Dark. When I was a wee girl (o.k., yes, that was a long time ago...), if given a choice, that is what I would choose. Every time. And then I grew up and discovered the joys of serious, real chocolate...but it started with Hershey's Special Dark.

Sigh...

Ciels-
Michele

~Do Angels keep the dreams we seek
While our hearts lie bleeding?~

[Deuce 1]

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The example I thought you were going to use had nothing to do with garlic....

Asparagus? Yeah, I've been told that's rude.

[champu 1]

I've brought this on myself...

[Michele 1]

Deuce, er, yes, asparagus. Yep, that's what I meant. Yeppers.

Champu...

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I've brought this on myself...

What did I ever do to you? Huh? I mean, really. Teasing me like that is unacceptable. Torturing me with pictures of delectable chocolate, simply irresistable specialness, dancing in my memory, traipsing my dreams...warding off all the girl things it wards off....and then blammo, I come back to reality. And a chocolate-less house. Gee, thanks. You're a good friend.

Hey, has anyone ever told you your name sounds like shampoo?

Ciels-
Michele

~Do Angels keep the dreams we seek
While our hearts lie bleeding?~

[batbex 0]

Hi - it just has to be said - don't get me wrong I'm totally addicted to chocolate and it is right up there with sex and skydiving - but I was brought up on european chocolate - and tasted hersheys for the first time this summer, and I never thought I could say this about anything that society accepts to be defined as 'chocolate' but it was the most foul and disgusting thing I have ever tasted in my life and clearly unworthy of the label 'chocolate'

fascinating fact - Mars(maltesers, mars, milky way, galaxy/dove, twix, snickers etc...) have a different lower grade chocolate recipe used for their american products as compared with their european products as the european market wouldn't accept such low quality

[Michele 1]

Hi, Batbex

I am way older than you. When I was a little girl, telephones still had rotor dials. We were the first on my block to get an answering machine...The TV's remote only had 2 buttons - on, and channel change. As a matter of fact, there were only like 13 channels to worry about. When I was a little girl, it was a good thing to have a Chevrolet Malibu station wagon, and you still had to think about the different grades of gasoline.

Chocolate was Hersheys. We didn't get imported, good stuff. Not for years. But man, when we did, it was utter heaven. Of course, that was after I had visited, and then lived, in Europe, and had realized that your chocolate was heavenly, and ours sucked. But Hersheys was better than nothing...

Sigh....I'll just keep dreaming, thank you!

Ciels-
Michele

~Do Angels keep the dreams we seek
While our hearts lie bleeding?~

[Darius11 12]

YOU EVIL HUMAN BEING.

Stop talking about sweet sweet chocolate. I have to be down to 190 by Apr. and your not helping bro.

GOD chocolate is my weakness. The best has to be Swiss milk chocolate oh god sooooooooooo good.

I'd rather be hated for who I am, than loved for who I am not." - Kurt Cobain

[champu 1]

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Hey, has anyone ever told you your name sounds like shampoo?

Actually, since you ask... (cracks open beer around the bonfire)

I got that name back in high school. There was a character in a water skiing arcade game named 'shampoo' and I was joking with my girlfriend that, "if you're going to have a name like 'shampoo', you better as hell spell it so that it sounds foreign and you can claim that the deeper meaning is lost in translation."

now it's just ridiculous 'cause I don't have any hair...

[batbex 0]

Hi michele - sorry to dis hersheys - but I recently had a whole 4 months in california without any of my favourite chocolates - I had to have recourse to my other two favourite activities to cope with the loss
I am relatively young - but I live in the middle of nowhere - and my telephone still had a rotor dial until 1999, we still don't have an answering machine, our tv remote had more than two buttons - but only 5 channels and unless you have skydigital - tv still only has 6 channels, we have a ford station wagon - and there are still different grades of gasoline!! lol! I like living out in the country! - you can't be that old

[Deuce 1]

Well, my tastes are pretty simple; two of my most favorite foods are a bacon-wrapped filet, and chicken Kiev. The best serving of food I ever had was a big plate of carpaccio in Rome.

The best cup of chocolate I ever had was in a little place in Venice.

This Starbucks stuff is really good. And I don't think kids will like it, which I like a lot, cause I don't want my kids to get in the habit of sucking back hot chocolate that costs $2.65. It had me thinking of European chocolate, but I'm sure lots of Europeans will be mortified that a gigantic US conglomerate has come up with something so good that's mass produced.

Who knows, it may suck when it hits the stores, but the chicks at the focus group were very much digging it.

[champu 1]

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The TV's remote only had 2 buttons - on, and channel change.

see... we had the luxury model with three buttons.

one button you'd press to turn in on, press it again to turn the sound down a notch, press it again to turn it down one more notch, and a fourth would turn it off

the kicker is that we could surf up or down with the other two buttons. still only had 7-8 channels but it didn't matter, there was something satisfying about pressing a button and making the knob on the TV turn by itself *clang* *clang* *clang*

/edit: sorry... uh I mean... so how about that chocolate? eh?