i never liked chocolate.
i can tolerate small amounts of dark chocolate as long as it is wafer thin and has some other zesty ingredient like intense orange flakes.
the worst type of chocolate to me is white chocolate.
it is quite sickly. too "lactosey". i love to suck on tubes of sweetened condensed milk which may seem similar, but white chocolate has a stinky babies milky head taste about it.
milk chocolate is diluted with milk and sweetened with extra sugar and i do not like it.
i have given some thought to chocolate however.
i think early south american civilizations like the aztecs or even earlier the maya discovered chocolate.
the cocoa bean is outrageously unpalatable and whoever discovered it by accident while maybe trying out foods in the forest, must have spat it out, but afterward felt a sense of calmness and stability of alertness.
he may have wondered about that effect, and then collected some of the beans to take them back to the tribe to ask them to try them and, even though they have a ferociously bitter taste, report whether they feel any positive physiological or psychological effects.
maybe many reported the effects i outlined above, so they incorporated it as a medicine.
to increase the palatability, someone invariably would have added some type of sugar (probably corn syrup) to assist in the consumption (a spoon full of sugar helps the medicine go down).
so an astonishing discovery was made that the addition of sugar not only made it less bitter, but perfectly augmented it's underlying taste, and it became an appetising taste, rather than just a tolerable one.
this would be how the modern idea of chocolate was discovered i believe.
but i still don't like it anyway.