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By Kevin Hill
You walk into the room and the luscious smell of chocolate whacks you in the face. The aroma is narcotic. You become intoxicated and your senses trip into overdrive. Your taste buds tingle with delight. The anticipation is mounting. Milk, dark or white chocolate; it doesn't matter coz' it's chocolate ! The effects are dizzying, forcing you to lie down. The store assistant comes to you laden with massive tubs of chocolate. Your body is about to explode with the excitement. She gets a scoop of chocolate and playfully teases you with it. This ultimate, decadent experience is reaching its crescendo of wicked sensuous delight. The assistant places the chocolate in front of your mouth; you strain forward to taste this exotic delight. Then she slaps it onto your arm.
Hold the phone! What's going on here?
If you want to know what a Mars Bar feels like then head down to your local Taiwanese beauty salon. This chocolate isn't for eating--this is the latest fad to hit the beauty salons. Your body is covered in chocolate, and then you're wrapped in foil. Beauticians are now tapping into what the Mayans used for years--chocolate's healing and rejuvenating properties. Chocolate is made from cocoa, which contains anti-aging agents. Apparently my dentist and family have been lying to me all this time saying that chocolate is bad for me. Some salons use real chocolate, whereas others use a mixture of chocolate and mud (the latter is not edible). The effects are amazing.
At the moment it is mostly women who indulge in this treatment, but I'm sure that men will soon follow suit. However if you're a hairy beast like myself, trying to remove the chocolate from head to toe is not an enjoyable experience--no matter what the benefits are to body and skin.
And what do they do with the chocolate afterward? Do they recycle it? Do they serve chocolate from under my armpits?
Let's look at this scenario: You go to the salon and pay a lot of money to be smothered in chocolate instead of eating it. If you use Taiwanese or Japanese chocolate that's all right because, in my opinion, they aren't real chocolate anyways. American chocolate isn't much better, either.
But use European chocolate? Are you off your head? Have you been sitting under the power lines too long? We're talking about real chocolate. Chocolate that asks--nay, begs to be eaten. We should enjoy eating this chocolate, not covering our bodies with it.
| Kevin Hill lives in Kaohsiung with his wife and two kids. Kevin is a chocolate connoisseur and the author of two books: 501 Things to do While On Hold and Power Words: Teaching Bible Memory Verses to Kids , which are available from Trafford's (www.trafford.com) |
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