my poison

i love a good chocolate. sometimes i can be a glutton, having the same over and over again. the sales people at the old godiva shop all knew me when they still had a shop downstairs of my office building. but when i stop, i won't touch the thing for months. i can finish two bars of a regular size cadbury fruit and nut. i can finish this box in one sitting if i choose to.

in 1979 i was 26 and weighed 89 pounds. the first mr. summerfield was on a business trip to europe and asked me what i wanted him to get me. i said only chocolate. he didn't know which brand to get -- he's seen me devour a whole bar of suchard chocolate. what did he do? bought a smaller suitcase, put his stuff in his regular big suitcase and filled the his big suitcase with chocolate -- different sizes and all the big name brands of european chocolate candies. within a year, i weighed 140 lbs. and had to get help at the fat farm. in six months, i had trimmed down to 110 lbs.

i am partial to white chocolate, by itself or with nuts.

you, what's your poison?

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[bkb in the city]

Not sure but l Definitely love chocolate. Good thing this just a picture

[☠northy]

I never understood about white chocolate...

[Monique]

Dark chocolate for sure 😉

[JackieR]

I'm intrigued by the empty row, what flavour were they??

I can eat a bag of Bassett's liquorice all-sorts in one sitting, in the way others eat a packet of crisps!

[kali]

i like white these days , cant eat so much dark, too bitter

[FBailey]

This is my kind of photograph - if I can't eat it I can fantasize about it. White and milk are equally wonderful ...

[Lou Ann]

Milk chocolate is my fave. Great photo and really great narrative, Vikki.

[Maggiemae]

You must be now very tiny being only 110lbs! Not telling you my weight! I am the same - eat one, eat more. But mostly I refuse to even start because of that. When I was a young girl I spent my money on a bag of chocolate toffees and on the way home, I ate the lot. I was riding a bike but could not say anything for quite a while!

[Helen Jane]

these are good chocolates. I can't stop at one, or two. And then when I have had three I think I have blown it anyway so might as well eat the lot and get them out of the way.

[Kathy]

A well illustrated story. This photo makes my mouth water and I don't even like chocolate.

[Marnie]

90% dark chocolate's my favourite. Not keen on chocs in boxes. As for my weight I'm not saying anything except that I'm a big girl.

[Shutterbug]

I like dark chocolate especially with salted caramel. We always stop at the Ghirardelli factory when we are in San Francisco. (It’s not a factory anymore, but still has the sign which is a prominent feature in the SF skyline.)

[Caroline]

Oh, yum! I am definitely a dark chocolate girl! I do like this photo. Fav

[Mary Siegle]

Ah, geez...I had to see this right before turning off the light. Now I’ll be craving chocolate. Dark for me. White somehow doesn’t seem like “real” chocolate. Really nice photo— I do like the white in there for contrast.