Chocolate inventory
Every now and then, Roscoe makes me organise all of the chocolate into boxes. (Yes, plural). Then he berates me for keeping what he considers to be unnecessary amounts of chocolate on hand. "Chocolate," I tell him, "is like books. You do not want to wait until you run out before you buy more. It's important to have some in reserve."
"This," he says wearily, "is why the place is full of chocolate and books, isn't it?"
He has a point. I cannot, however, interpret "full of chocolate and books" as a negative.
Herewith, a breakdown:
275g dark, with chilli
250g dark, with mint
125g dark, with orange and almond
100g fairtrade dark
125g 60% cocoa
225g 70% cocoa
125g 81%cocoa
100g fairtrade milk
200g fairtrade milk with rose
200g milk with coffee-flavour crunchy bits
125g milk with caramel crunchy bits
300g white
plus some bags of chocolate chips, and escaped shards and squares from other bars, totalling 815g or thereabouts.
By my count, that is just shy of three kilograms of chocolate. Dear reader, do I have a problem? Or do I have the solution to every problem?
"This," he says wearily, "is why the place is full of chocolate and books, isn't it?"
He has a point. I cannot, however, interpret "full of chocolate and books" as a negative.
Herewith, a breakdown:
275g dark, with chilli
250g dark, with mint
125g dark, with orange and almond
100g fairtrade dark
125g 60% cocoa
225g 70% cocoa
125g 81%cocoa
100g fairtrade milk
200g fairtrade milk with rose
200g milk with coffee-flavour crunchy bits
125g milk with caramel crunchy bits
300g white
plus some bags of chocolate chips, and escaped shards and squares from other bars, totalling 815g or thereabouts.
By my count, that is just shy of three kilograms of chocolate. Dear reader, do I have a problem? Or do I have the solution to every problem?