The chocolate plateau paradox
Here's the problem with chocolate in a nutshell: There's no plateau.
You eat chocolate and it's wonderful, so you're naturally inclined to continue repeating the experience. And, assuming there are adequate supplies of chocolate, say, for example, on Easter Day when bountiful amounts of chocolate are available, that chocolate will be consumed. Because it's wonderful.
Until it's not.
There doesn't seem to exist that perfect moment and which just the right amount of chocolate has been eaten, and you can sit back and be content. There's no plateau, instead there's only a vicious peak followed by an inevitable and precipitous decline.
Which is to say, I think I may have eaten too much chocolate...
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Hmm. "Too much chocolate." I've heard people say that before, but I just don't get it.
It's frightening, but I've never actually hit a peak in chocolate consumption, even in one sitting. Oh, and I've tried. I just get full. I remember an instance when George and I were laying in supplies at the Endz for a movie night. We bought a few pounds of dark chocolate, sampled a couple of pieces, and finished the first bar. We had to go out again so just finished the second one. We went out, bought more, and if I recall correctly finished the others as well.
Oh, then there's the entire Death by Chocolate that Martin bought me for my birthday once, but let's leave that for now...
Mark looks on enviously.