Do you love a chocolate? U guess there are not too many people in the world who do not. Other things are just food, but chocolate’s chocolate. Forget love – I’d rather fall in chocolate!!!:-) Well, very soon St. Nicholas will come with wonderful presents to every one I hope:-). For instance in the Europe, the feast of St. Nicholas or Santa Claus is celebrated on December 6th and all children put their clogs outside at night so Santa can fill them up with chocolate money.
Do you know that the world’s largest box of chocolates weighed in at 2,002 lbs. It was made in Chicago, USA, and contained Frango mints but the first cacao trees were found growing in the Amazon river basin and the foothills of the Venezuelan and Colombian Andes. Joseph Fry of Bristol, England, made the first eating chocolate in 1848.
In 1991, a model ship was made out of chocolate in Barcelona, Spain. It measured 42.5 feet x 28 feet x 8 feet.
The largest chocolate ever made was a chocolate marzipan. It was made in the Netherlands over a 3-day period and weighed 4,078 lbs!
One chocolate chip provides enough food energy for an adult to walk 150 feet. Therefore, it takes about 35 chocolate chips to walk a mile or 875,000 to get you around the world.
It takes the whole of one year’s crop from one tree to make half a kilo of cocoa.
66,000 Crème Eggs are made every hour.
For all those of you out there dreaming about those chocolate bars, dream away! You can’t blame chocolate for raising your blood cholesterol. Now that’s a fact so eat!
Chocolate has changed the way we eat, romance and live. But don’t go overboard as too much of a good thing can be bad!
The truth is there’s nothing better than a good friend, except a good friend with CHOCOLATE!
I don’t understand why so many “so called” chocolate lovers complain about the calories in chocolate, when all true chocoholics know that it is a vegetable. It comes from the cocoa bean, beans are veggies, ’nuff said:-)
Wine and partying go hand in hand. A dinner party that does not have wine as a part of the drinks seems to be incomplete. The drink lightens your head and enlivens your mood, without any great risks of your getting drunk. So popular is wine amongst people that many of the great personalities; like Benjamin Franklin and William Shakespeare, have written or said great quotes about it. These quotes, when shared while drinking wine, add to the whole experience. Keeping this in mind, we have provided some very funny and witty quotations about wine, in the lines below.
Funny Wine Quotes
Wine is constant proof that God loves us and loves to see us happy. – Benjamin Franklin
What is the definition of a good wine? It should start and end with a smile. – William Sokolin
Wine is bottled poetry. – Robert Louis Stevenson
Wine gives a man nothing… it only puts in motion what had been locked up in frost. – Samuel Johnson
Wine gives courage and makes men more apt for passion. – Ovid
The vine bears three kinds of grapes: the first of pleasure, the second of intoxication, the third of disgust. – Diogenes
Wine is a turncoat; first a friend and then an enemy. – Henry Fielding
This is one of the disadvantages of wine; it makes a man mistake words for thoughts. – Samuel Johnson
Wine is a peep-hole on a man. – Alcaeus
Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging: and whosoever is deceived thereby is not wise. – Bible quotes
Good wine is a good familiar creature if it be well used. – William Shakespeare
Wine makes every meal an occasion, every table more elegant, every day more civilized. – Andre Simon
A mind of the caliber of mine cannot derive its nutriment from cows. – George Bernard Shaw on wine
Sweetness belongs in the Mosel wine like the bubbles belong in the Champagne. – Nik Weiss
Appreciating old wine is like making love to a very old lady. It is possible. It can even be enjoyable. But it requires a bit of imagination. – Andre Tchelistcheff
Blind tastings are to wine what strip poker is to love. – Kermit Lynch
The discovery of a wine is of greater moment than the discovery of a constellation. The universe is too full of stars. – Benjamin Franklin
What is better than to sit at the end of the day and drink wine with friends, or substitutes for friends! – James Joyce
If God forbade drinking, would He have made wine so good! – Cardinal Richelieu
Wine improves with age. The older I get, the better I like it. – Anonymous
Where there is plenty of wine, sorrow and worry take wing. – Anonymous
I have enjoyed great health at a great age because everyday since I can remember I have consumed a bottle of wine except when I have not felt well. Then I have consumed two bottles. – Bishop of Seville
Compromises are for relationships, not wine. – Sir Robert Scott Caywood
Beer is made by men, wine by God! – Martin Luther
Men are like wine – some turn to vinegar, but the best improve with age. – Pope John XXIII
Life is too short to drink bad wine. – Anonymous
If food is the body of good living, wine is its soul. – Clifton Fadiman
I made wine out of raisins so I wouldn’t have to wait for it to age. – Steven Wright