OT if chocolate is really OT

Someone is eating my share, too! Darn it! It's my chocolate and I prefer to eat it myself! But really, 1 to 3 times per month to consume chocolate for optimum health? Of course, that's the figure for men. I know I eat it more often than that.

Howdy!

hmm...obviously lots of American chocolate eaters are lying. ;-) I know I'm doing my part! 22.36 lbs per year-- pshaw! Amateurs! LOL

Coffee--never touch it. But it would partly explain the schizophrenia in The White House, D.C..

Do you have any stats for quilters per country? Fabric consumption?

Cheers! R/Sandy

The USA is in 11th place on chocolate consumption! Oh, man, I am so appalled!! I implore my fellow Americans to stop slacking off (except those with medical excuse & it BETTER be a good one!) If each and every one to increase chocolate consumption with say an extra two chocolate bars per month, our chocolate status would improve greatly. To say nothing of improving MY disposition. Do you realize how EMBARRASSING this is for me??? After all, I am an American AND Official Chocolate Taster of RCTQ.

PAT, go> OK all you US-based chocolate fanatics. According to this

PS: I will leave the comments on coffee to our Coffee Diva, Jan

yes you should be.. we here in the Netherlands have managed 13th place (10.56 lbs/yr) despite being smaller that the average US state!

I won't even go into the slacking on the part of the coffee consumption... as we are 5th place (7.1 kg) as opposed to your measly 3 kg a year

I of course do my part in making sure the rest of the world gets *good* chocolate and I certainly drink my fair share of the coffee.....

hehehe I was wondering if you would notice

however your memory serves you badly as I *did* send you a sample way back on 2002 :-P as that was a "requirement" to becoming a queen myself

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Although I think that

Yeah, although nearly 13 years in Sweden has not been sufficient to convert me from tea to coffee. Still there's nothing quite like a warm beverage when there's several centimeters of snow outside!

Erin

well... since it was almost 5 years ago I think I can forgive you for wanting more

I go for quality over quantity. And I suspect a lot of that coffee goes to waste -nobody here makes instant in a mug. Any hostess with self-respect will make a pot of coffee, enough for 4-6, even if it's only 2 of us. Although those "espresso" machines are very popular, and those do one cup at a time. OTOH, lots of the machines use coffee pads, and there must be a fair amount of waste in making them. Roberta in D

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ohhh I don't know.. if I had to make half a pot of coffee just for me most of it would go to waste - now I have the coffee pad machine I make a cup as I want it and never end up with yucky coffee that has been kept too long

Howdy!

They lied, I tell ya', they lied, those American chocolate eaters. It's becoming a nation in denial (leaving out political & economic remarks) and just like the quilters survey in Houston, consumers are denying their true habits, buying quilting stuff &/or eating chocolate. #11? I don't think so.

R/Sandy -- w/ a cup of hot chocolate in this snowy/icy weather

I showed both of these to DH who was appalled.

The western hemisphere in general clearly needs to increase chocolate consumption! Of course that might mean sending fewer beans to europe...

What is this buisness with _Ireland_ being number three on the list? You might have expected the Swiss to be number one, but name me a great Irish chocolate! Obviously this boiled ham and cabbage/potato eating thing is a sham. Really they are over there at dinner time going "Katie me dear that chocolate fondue with the boxty slid down a right treat! pass the chocolate mousse."

This may explain my preference as a child for drawn butter as opposed to cream sauce with lutefisk. Obviously my husband and I are Norewegian, while our kiripet is clearly Japanese. My coffee loving Swedish grampa is probably spinning in his grave.

NightMist

Those are really surprising statistics. All this time, I thought we were a nation of coffee drinkers, and we don't hold a candle to some! I proudly partake of the cuppa joe several times a day.... and love every drop!

Patti in Seattle

Pat, My Queen, the Count and I are doing our part. All those lovely antioxidants, don't y'know! AND working on a chocolate/pink WUH, too. Nancycog in MD, Countess of Chocolate Chip Cookies