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msparks
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 Posted: 02/02/05 - 11:07 Post subject: Wanted: Chocolate lover/freak/expert/Italian linguist for...
...information regarding a gift I received yesterday.
Suckers! Now you're going to get the whole story but there's still time to bail...
Okay, then.
A totally unexpected gift arrived via Mr. Postman yesterday. Even with an upcoming birthday, I didn't anticipate it. I recognized the return address - Bologna, Italy. That meant that I had a package from my favorite Italian pipemaker. The size of the box indicated that it very well could be a pipe. As I wasn't aware that he (Alberto Bonfiglioli) knew about my birthday, I was delighted to find that the package did indeed hold a pipe. But, here's where it gets interesting...and me to the point of all of this (insert applause/derisive sneers/etc.): included in the package was a bar of chocolate. The wrapper had this label: "Cioccolato Puro." Okay, we can all guess that one. However, the note he attached to it said: "Chocolate made with my own blend." Okay, so he knows English but, when I turned it over, another label had this printed on it: "Cioccolato Fondente Puro Al Tabacco." And this: "Ing: Cioccolato fondente al 70%, zucchero e tabacco."
Folks (those who are still with me), we can all be sure that Italian word for tobacco is, well, tobacco. And I'll take a wild stab and say that zucchero is, uh, sugar? (He finally comes to the question...)
Has anyone ever heard of, or actually eaten, chocolate with tobacco as an ingredient?
Okay, back to the regularly schedulted programming.
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HYPERASHEL
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Posted: 02/02/05 - 11:10 Post subject:
yes the zucchero is sugar. now while i haven't had it with Tobasco sause i have seen Chocolate with hot spices before. We have a small Icecream chain that has chocloate and jalepeno. I haven't tried that either.
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Dancer
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Posted: 02/02/05 - 11:13 Post subject:
| HYPERASHEL wrote: | | yes the zucchero is sugar. now while i haven't had it with Tobasco sause i have seen Chocolate with hot spices before. We have a small Icecream chain that has chocloate and jalepeno. I haven't tried that either. |
Tobacco not tobasco.
Anyhoo, I've never had tobacco in any form. Can't help, sorry.
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airehead
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Posted: 02/02/05 - 12:34 Post subject:
Too cool! I work at a chocolate factory but have never heard of this!
My husband is a pipe smoker, too, but I'm guessing hasn't heard of this either!
Too cool!!  Something new to research!!!!
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robp
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Posted: 02/02/05 - 12:54 Post subject:
A guy I used to work with smoked pipe tobacco that smelled like chocolate cake.
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airehead
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Posted: 02/02/05 - 13:07 Post subject:
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msparks
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Posted: 02/02/05 - 13:11 Post subject:
| robp wrote: | | A guy I used to work with smoked pipe tobacco that smelled like chocolate cake. |
Yeah! And I knew this one guy who brought some chocolate brownies to work one afternoon. I was still in the Navy and it was the eve watch. (2nd shift for the non-Nav types.) Man, that was the longest watch that I ever worked. Ate one of the brownies. Later, I had trouble concentrating on my work. The normally riveting classified traffic concerning Russian ship movement in the Mediterranean just didn't grab me as it usually did.
Is that along the same lines?
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brie k
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Posted: 02/02/05 - 13:12 Post subject:
Yes, I've heard of this. You just told me. 
No, never have tried it. I don't think I would. Chocolate is all kinds of good, but with tobacco--pipe or otherwise--ick.
Maybe though, when he says "tobacco," it's code for that other fine smoking stuff. That, OTOH, could be good stuff!
Kidding. I partake in no such thing anymore.
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gretriever
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Posted: 02/02/05 - 13:15 Post subject:
| brie k wrote: | Yes, I've heard of this. You just told me.
No, never have tried it. I don't think I would. Chocolate is all kinds of good, but with tobacco--pipe or otherwise--ick.
Maybe though, when he says "tobacco," it's code for that other fine smoking stuff. That, OTOH, could be good stuff!
Kidding. I partake in no such thing anymore. |
And we know that makes its way into one particular baked item featuring chocolate.
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rolling rock
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Posted: 02/02/05 - 13:30 Post subject:
there's only one way to find out.
try it, you'll like it.
report back later. 
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msparks
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Posted: 02/02/05 - 13:34 Post subject:
| rolling rock wrote: | there's only one way to find out.
try it, you'll like it.
report back later. |
Roger that. Copy you five by. Will wait until it's really my birthday before I open it so stand by to stand by. Report to follow.
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andydp
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Posted: 02/03/05 - 16:54 Post subject:
| brie k wrote: |
Maybe though, when he says "tobacco," it's code for that other fine smoking stuff. That, OTOH, could be good stuff!
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Alice B Toklas is alive and well !!
Peter Sellers Movice from the 70's: I Love you Alice B. Toklas
For the uninitiated, Alice was Gloria Stein's roomie in Paris.
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