Today is National Chocolate Day! How Will You Celebrate??

I am a chocoholic.  I’ve always been open about it.  I LOVE chocolate!  Years ago I had the opportunity to judge a chocolate baking contest.  Wow, was that awesome!!  I did realize at that time that you do have to pace yourself when you’re eating a LOT of chocolate.  After we finished I immediately went home and took a nap.

Several weeks ago I joined a couple of my friends at the Anastasiades Chocolates chocolate tasting.  OMG was that WONDERFUL!!!   My nieces were very jealous when I told them about that  because being a chocoholic runs in the family.  If I had to narrow down my absolute favorite chocolate item  it would probably have to be  dark chocolate mint candy.  There was one time when someone had brought in a whole box of dark chocolate mint to the FM studio and left it there when my show started.  After about an hour and a half I had to take it out to the lobby because I’d already eaten 7 pieces and thought they were going to have roll me out of the building if I kept that pace up.  When I was a kid and my sister and I would go to the movies we always got Junior Mints to eat.  That candy always takes me right back to being a child.   Is there a type of candy that makes you think of your childhood?

I’m very glad there is a day designated to eating chocolate!  Although, really, do we need an excuse??