now here's some "pearls" everyone can enjoy!

[mikehrz]

"New M&M'S(R) White Chocolate Treasure Discovered by Pirate "Ragetti" at NYC Seaport
In Time for Disney's "Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest" New Yorkers Are First to Plunder Packs of M&M'S(R) White Chocolate Pirate Pearls"
http://www.marketwire.com/mw/release...ease_id=126919

I am employed by one of the (many, many) retailers who will be bringing this wonderful new kind of pearl to you. Being a chocolate snob, I am happy to report that these pearls are solid white chocolate, not white-chocolate-plated nuts. Though they all have the same shape, they are of course not round; instead they are oblate spheroids. Their luster is rather poor, despite obvious candy-coating surface treatments. Fortunately, this does not affect the taste.

[jshepherd]

I love it! But isn't white chocolate bleahed somewhere down the road

[Zeide Erskine]

Hi Jeremy,

There is no "white chocolate" the only reason why "white chocolate" is white is because it does not contain any actual chocolate. It is a mixture of cacao butter (sans chocolate liquour), sugar, milk powder, and flavorings. I feel even more strongly about "white chocolate" than about akoyas and other pearl plated beads. "White chocolate" is a crime against humanity. I recommend Chocolate a Consuming Passion for background reading. Chocolate is produced by an Italian company called Domori and the best chocolate-related products otherwise come from the company Hachez. All else is sugary brown stuff.

http://www.chocosphere.com/Html/Products/domori.html
http://feeds.feedburner.com/uberswiss

Zeide

[pearltime]

Hi Jeremy,

There is no "white chocolate" the only reason why "white chocolate" is white is because it does not contain any actual chocolate. It is a mixture of cacao butter (sans chocolate liquour), sugar, milk powder, and flavorings. I feel even more strongly about "white chocolate" than about akoyas and other pearl plated beads. "White chocolate" is a crime against humanity. I recommend Chocolate a Consuming Passion for background reading. Chocolate is produced by an Italian company called Domori and the best chocolate-related products otherwise comes from the company Hachez. All else is sugary brown stuff.

http://www.chocosphere.com/Html/Products/domori.html
http://feeds.feedburner.com/uberswiss

Zeide

Oh no! I love white chocolate more than real chocolate.

[Zeide Erskine]

Hi Peartime,

That's o.k., when I relax again I may even send you a pair of akoya and diamond earrings and a bar of white Hershey's. To each his/her own. Pearls are my passion and chocolate is my religion. I am a very faithful observer of it.

Zeide

[pearltime]

Hi Zeide, I'd love that. Thanks!

[Caitlin]

when I relax again

What do you need to do that? Real chocolate?

Love to get up in the AM to a belly laugh like this thread!

[Satine De La Courcel]

Hmmmmmmm... Now I have been thinking.. be VERY affraid..... I wonder If I could make a Chocolate edible pearls necklcae to give out as a gift at one of our upcoming events.... Let me ponder and play with that idea........

[purepearls]

That's a great marketing idea! It wouldn't be hard to do!

[Satine De La Courcel]

Hi Amanda

Feel free to use it and enjoy! Just send me some .. Now that would be a collection to have.....

"Chocolate pearls" from all over the world! using different types of chocolate.....

Can ya tell its friday! LOL!!!!!! Have a great weekend everyone

Cheers

Ash

[mikehrz]

Pearls are my passion and chocolate is my religion.
Zeide

Wait a minute. Does that mean I'm a chocolate heretic?

[Zeide Erskine]

Hi Mike,

You can only be a heretic if you otherwise profess to be a believer in chocolatanity. A buddhist is not a christian heretic, you know.

If, for instance, somebody who is not really interested in pearls but rather fashion wrote an essay on the virtues of short-cultured and overtreated pearls, that's just a Sheer Hype Report, however, if I did that it would be heresy.

Zeide

[mikehrz]

Well, tie me to a stake and stack some firewood underneath, 'cause you're lookin' at one size XL heretic. I consider "sugary brown stuff" one of the main food groups, along with pizza and cheesecake (plain cheesecake, thank you very much. defiling an excellent cheesecake with fruity topping is like putting a short-cultured akoya in the middle of a strand of naturals). We white chocolate cultists don't really present any danger to your status quo, though.

Nobody expects the Cocoa Inquisition!

[Zeide Erskine]

Hi Mike,

I definitely agree that chocolate is the true vitamin C. You die without it. We may have minor disagreements on chocolate definition and brand preference.

You are absolutely right, cheesecake is another major food group that does not take well to defiling. What would you think of somebody who slathered some philadelphia on a cardbord box and called that a cultured cheesecake? Or worse, put processed diet philadelphia with artificial strawberry flavor on the box and tried selling it to you as cultured New York Cheesecake for only US3,000.00 a slice?

Zeide

[mikehrz]

Now here's something we agree on. At last, I have an ally in the war against cheesecake toppings! As I have always said, a good cheesecake doesn't NEED toppings!

Though I've never been to Philly, I have been to New York City, where I had the best cheesecake it's ever been my privilege to consume. I believe the Romans had the custom of gorging themselves, then vomiting it up so they could eat more. That was a custom I never understood, until I ate that cheesecake. New York is, of course, also famous for pizza. So basically I should move to New York. Although that would mean Pearl Paradise's office would no longer be in driving distance...