Fashion Board 11-2-03 - 12-09-03

[notcasesensitive]

Originally posted by ThurgreedMarshall
This is the difference that I'm talking about. Give me a piece of chocolate and I'll eat it. But women go fucking nuts over it. There is a real difference and I want to know why that is.

TM

No idea. I must lack that gene. I like chocolate fine, but it falls behind fruity and/or minty desserts even in the world of sweets. And I can't even compare it to cheese, which will win out for me every time if put up against dessert. Leagl may be right that it is much like coffee or other substances with mildly addictive characteristics.

[purse junkie]

Originally posted by sebastian_dangerfield
Where does this "sensual pleasure" of chocolate come from?

Mouthfeel.

[sebastian_dangerfield]

Originally posted by leagleaze
I don't think that many women actually go nuts over it. I think it is just a lot of hyperbole.

But for those that do, I imagine for some women it is a bit like cigarettes. Haven't they found all sorts of chemicals in chocolate? Those probably cause a reaction in some people.

I disagree. If I come into a party full of women and throw down a box of Godiva, the box will be empty in minutes and women will be commenting to one another about which were the best chocolates in the box, like a bunch of dessert afficiandos. I have never seen guys go nuts for a box of any sort of sweets. In college I'd see women eat entire pints of Ben and Jerry's. I have never seen a man do that.

I also note that generally I don't see men order dessert at dinner, whereas women will almost always hit the dessert menu. There is definitely a difference between the sexes when it comes to enjoyment of sweets, and particularly so in regard to chocolate.

I understand TM's inquisitiveness here. I feel like due to my maleness I'm missing out on some sort of wild sensual pleasure, and I'd like to know what it is.

I think men prefer salty tasting shit to sugary tasting things, but I have no support for this conclusion other than my own personal taste.

[bold_n_brazen]

Originally posted by leagleaze
I don't think that many women actually go nuts over it. I think it is just a lot of hyperbole.

But for those that do, I imagine for some women it is a bit like cigarettes. Haven't they found all sorts of chemicals in chocolate? Those probably cause a reaction in some people.

The combination of chocolate and cigarettes sounds like a perfect way to wile away an afternoon.

I could eat Hershey's Kisses and smoke Marrlboro Lights until teh earth exploded.

Of course, I actually do neither anymore because I don't want to be a fat lard ass who can't walk up a flight of stairs without a hit of oxygen. That, and I'd like to be around to see the Brazenette attend her senior prom.

[ThurgreedMarshall]

Originally posted by Aloha Mr. Learned Hand
4. The place is dead anyway.
I'm gonna make Gretzky's head bleed for Super Fan 99 over here.
Daddy's gonna get us the Rain Man Suite...
I'm gonna find me two waitresses here and I'm gonna pull me a Fredo.
What the fuck are you carrying a gun for? What, in case somebody steps to you, Snoop Dogg?

I almost forgot, "Let's see what you got, House of Pain."

TM

[ThrashersFan]

Actress Bridget Fonda and composer Danny Elfman were married last weekend, Fonda's publicist said Friday.

http://entertainment.msn.com/news/ar...px?news=142813

She is still kinda cute. -- in that Bridget Fonda way. He is 50 but not quite as wacky looking as in the Weird Science days.

[sebastian_dangerfield]

Originally posted by Sparklehorse
If you like truffles, Teuscher champagne truffles are the best I've ever had:



They are not inexpensive and I imagine they know how to ship them so they won't melt.

Those truffles look like frozen vomit balls.

And what is that green shit in the glass next to them? Melon liquer? Mmmmm... sign me up. Sound dElish.

[robustpuppy]

Originally posted by sebastian_dangerfield
Those truffles look like frozen vomit balls.

And what is that green shit in the glass next to them? Melon liquer? Mmmmm... sign me up. Sound dElish.

Kentucky Fried Christmas, Sebby, it's champagne that looks green because the table and the box are green.

[purse junkie]

Originally posted by ThurgreedMarshall
Two things: (1) You're not answering the question. Chocolate, excellent or not, appeals to both men and women. I want to know why it is so much more appealing to women.

(2) "No-strings-attached?" Really? Don't those strings come in the form of cellulite to your thighs?

This is the difference that I'm talking about. Give me a piece of chocolate and I'll eat it. But women go fucking nuts over it. There is a real difference and I want to know why that is.

TM

(1) Social conditioning, probably. The pretty gold boxes; Valentine's Day; the slight 'naughtiness' women are freakishly taught to associate with enjoying food. Guys just don't have all that aimed at 'em.

(2) Not if you don't sit around inhaling Hershey's bars. Small piece of Valrhona chipped inelegantly off a block or a single handmade truffle--sublime, and no bodily damage.

[sebastian_dangerfield]

Originally posted by bold_n_brazen
That, and I'd like to be around to see the Brazenette attend her senior prom.

I'll give you the highlights:

1. Drink stolen peach schnapps in limo;

2. Drink beers and wine at party at some kid's lake/beach/ski house;

3. Have lousy sex with drunken boyfriend; and

4. Get up in the morning, ask self how dress got covered in red wine and cocktail sauce and ride home with friends, complaining about lousyt sex and fact that boyfriend kept you up all night puking into toilet and sucked in the sack.

I say eat the chocolates and smoke em if you got em.

[Not Me]

Originally posted by sebastian_dangerfield
There is definitely a difference between the sexes when it comes to enjoyment of sweets, and particularly so in regard to chocolate.

I think what women crave is the sugar/fat combo. It is all about packing on the pounds to have enough fat for the fetus to survive a famine. Seriously. Women have this biological urge to get fat.

I know I have the urge and the only way I know how to curb it is to just never eat that kind of stuff. If I eat it, it just makes me want more so I never go there in the first place.

[sebastian_dangerfield]

Originally posted by robustpuppy
Kentucky Fried Christmas, Sebby, it's champagne that looks green because the table and the box are green.

Gotcha. Regardless, you enjoy the vomit balls. I'll take the champagne.

[ThrashersFan]

Originally posted by purse junkie
(1) Social conditioning, probably. The pretty gold boxes; Valentine's Day; the slight 'naughtiness' women are freakishly taught to associate with enjoying food. Guys just don't have all that aimed at 'em.

(2) Not if you don't sit around inhaling Hershey's bars. Small piece of Valrhona chipped inelegantly off a block or a single handmade truffle--sublime, and no bodily damage.

"Chocolate is the No. 1 most craved food, and women are the ones most likely to crave it. Why we crave chocolate is a complex issue."

"Our obsession with chocolate could be partially cultural........ women often receive chocolates, forming a link between chocolate and love....chocolate symbolizes an escape from the day-to-day drudgery."

"Then there is chocolate's creaminess. The cocoa butter in real chocolate gives it a rich texture. Cocoa butter melts in your mouth, providing what has been termed "a moment of ecstasy."

"Chocolate also is the perfect mix of sugar and fat to turn on almost every appetite-triggering nerve chemical in the brain. "

"Chocolate contains theobromine and caffeine, compounds that provide a mental boost, and phenylethylamine, or PEA, which stimulates the nervous system, increases blood pressure and heart rate, and is suspected to produce similar feelings experienced when a person is "in love." .... chocolate contains a substance called anandamide that mimics the effects of marijuana and boosts the pleasure you get when you eat chocolate. "

http://www.webmd.com/webmddiet/bp/index.html

[Shape Shifter]

Originally posted by ThrashersFan
Chocolate, as well as anything with caffeine in it like coffee or soda, gives me near-death headaches.

This explains the vanilla sex.

It sounds like what happens in those orgasmic shampoo commercials.

And now I understand the "shampoo, rinse, repeat" stuff ncs kept repeating. Thanks!

[robustpuppy]

Originally posted by sebastian_dangerfield
Gotcha. Regardless, you enjoy the vomit balls. I'll take the champagne.

You are making two incorrect assumptions:
1. That I enjoy truffles. (I do not, your genderalizations aside.)
2. That I would let you have the champagne, assuming it's any good.