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Skriven 2008-10-18 15:27:00 av Nancy Backus (23940.cooking)
  Kommentar till text 15109 av MICHAEL LOO (1:123/140)
Ärende: Re: chock full o choc 61
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-=> Quoting Michael Loo to Dave Sacerdote on 10-16-08  04:27 <=-

 ML>> They could decaffeinate/detheobrominate cocoa beans and make
 ML>> chocolate that wouldn't make me stay up all night.
 DS>> I really don't know why they don't make a caffeine-free version
 DS>> of chocolate.  It would be trivially easy.  I imagine that there's
 DS>> not that much awareness of caffeine in chocolate.

 ML> Funny ... most of the stimulant sensitives I know have stories
 ML> about chocolate that rival the stories about coffee.

I think that it's somewhat known.. but not necessarily by a wide
spectrum of "common man"...  After all, it's not exactly the same
caffeine as one finds in coffee or even cola... nor that of tea.

 ML> I wonder if messing with the chemical content of chocolate
 ML> would alter the vaunted emotional effects as well.
 
Probably.  It might not change the antioxididant qualities, though.

 ML>> SOW, I reinjured the leg: it was mostly better, and I sat on
 ML>> the floor and tried to get up too quickly, and boy that quick
 ML>> wave of searing pain woke me right up.
 DS> =(
 ML> Indeed. And it was for a phone call of great insignificance.
 ML> Some fool airport wanted my feedback on the "experience,"
 ML> and the first question was "what's your age group," and when
 ML> I said "fifty-one to sixty," the caller went, oh, we have all
 ML> the responses we need from that age group, click.

Sorry to hear of the leg... hope it heals better...  And tele-idiots
like that should be outlawed.

ttyl       neb

... Live so that the family parrot can live afterwards.

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