Farrel wrote:
>> Well I buy stuff from retailers and even Trader Joe's has it own
>> factory which
>> was recently moved leading to supply problems. Maybe TJ's factory just
>> makes
>> the bars but I think it may be working on the chocolate production as well.
>> Last I heard it was in Belgium though.
>>
>
> I have no knowledge, but would be very surprised if Trader Joe made
> their own chocolate. I would strongly presume that they have
> contracted with a Belgian chocolate maker to produce bars under the
> Trader Joe name. Incidentally, their chocolate is wonderful and on a
> price per gram basis is darn darn cheap. I once did an interesting
> comparsion of regular Hershey bar (60 g or so) vs Lindt bar vs Barry
> Callebaut broken up into 500g blocks by Whole Foods and Trader Joe
> slab (about 250g). The last two were so much cheaper (per gram) and
> Trader Joe's was phenomenally cheap. But then with so much chocolate
> in the house one just eats more chocolate. That invevitably costs more
> money and more time. The time is need to exercise to burn the energy
> content off. I have no chocolate satiety center in my brain.
>
If I could not limit myself to an ounce or less of chocolate
per day I would have to quit eating it. Usually I hold myself
to a third of an ounce and a tablespoon of cocoa in my drink
in the morning. Of course once a month I chop up a couple
of ounces of chocolate, and with 6 tablespoons of cocoa and
3 of chocolate bits make my infamous rice muffins with
walnuts and cranberries. 6 muffins that is and I freeze them
to eat over the next couple of weeks.

I do love my chocolate but moderation in all things but
recipes.

later
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"It is by will alone I set my mind in motion.
It is by the beans of cocoa that the thoughts acquire speed,
the thighs acquire girth, the girth become a warning.
It is by theobromine alone I set my mind in motion."
--from Someone else's Dune spoof ripped to my taste.