This does make me curious about your feelings for scultping with chocolate, though. I admit I am addicted to the Food Network Challenges. Plus it gives me the opportunity to mention (completely unrelated to chocolate, I know) another Food Network show, Chopped, where contestants receive surprise ingredients and have to create a three course meal. I saw an episode this weekend and one round had mangosteens as one of the ingredients. I immediately thought of you and had to share. I’d never seen someone cook with them before.

I’m a foodie who loves to cook, loves to bake and loves to eat almost everything in the world. But there are two things I dislike: coffee and chocolate. (And grapefruit, but there was no bitter citrus mentioned in this post.)

When I tell people that I’d rather have a piece of cheese than a bite of chocolate, they look at me like I have two heads, both of which they’d like to whack.

Curiously, I like the smell of coffee, especially hazelnut, but when I drink it all I taste is bitter brew.

Also interesting to note, I’m an avid baker, and I love to make chocolate desserts because they make my family happy, but I never eat them myself.

I hate when people judge my love of white chocolate :'( So I completely sympathize.

Therefore, I’m in full support of your chocolate disdain. Especially since I live with Baby Power Dyke, who has many a time expressed similar feelings.

Chocolate is one of my least favourite sweets to eat. I actually rather dislike chocolate cake and I am frequently made nauseous by the smell of chocolate when it’s warm or cooking.

(Is that kind of chocolate love appropriate on this thread?)

What I do love: Pie. With VANILLA ice cream. Yum.

There *are* certain things I like. Sour candies, for example. And ice cream in a cone. But when people learn I don’t like things with frosting, don’t eat doughnuts, and don’t want to try the free cookies? They think I should be committed. Especially when I turn down (you guessed it) chocolate bars.

Why does my lack of sweet tooth offend people? I have my vices, too, you know! They just aren’t desserts.

~Mary

I don’t get the barging into threads to ‘educate’ people on whether food is yummy. I try to tell chocolate lovers “that just means more for you then, right?” but apparently, there are still many people in the world who can’t distinguish between a personal preference and value judgments.

I agree with Nathalie above, who prefers cookies! (But not chocolate chip cookies. Nobody understands that, either.)

Not to minimize or commodify your oppression, but I’m trying to decide if there is a book concept wrapped into your chocolate hatred. And I just read Stephen King’s book “On Writing” in which he provides us his personal writing guide. He described how many of his books began with absurd “what ifs”…imagine:

What if a chocolate hater had infiltrated Charlie’s Chocolate Factory?

What if chocolate is in fact the opiate of the masses and it is the chocolate haters who are enlightened?

What if chocolate became the carrier of a contagion that turned masses of people into zombies, to extend a book like World War Z?

These are the questions that should keep us up at night.