

Could chocolate actually get any closer to ambrosia?




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Lots of engineering
By wordsworm on 12/27/2010 9:22:45 AM , Rating: 2
I have nothing against engineering biology. I'm just wondering when all this finesse will be able to help me engineer my own children. Why can't they help prospective parents engineer a child that can also resist disease, and that can have certain genetic dispositions that would create a superior human, or superman in the vernacular of Nietzsche?

That aside, most chocolate tastes like wax to me.

RE: Lots of engineering
By aegisofrime on 12/27/2010 9:53:26 AM , Rating: 2
Because then you would have a class of these superior humans, and a class of "inferior" humans because they and their parents are unable to afford the genetic modification. One of these two classes will want to kill the other.

I'm all for improving the human race, but issues like these have to be carefully worked out beforehand.

RE: Lots of engineering
By Motoman on 12/27/2010 12:26:13 PM , Rating: 5

RE: Lots of engineering
By bupkus on 12/27/2010 9:56:25 AM , Rating: 2

No problem... let me introduce you to brilliant researcher- Dr. Frankenstein. Oh, sorry... that's pronounced Fronkensteen.

That aside, how about trying some good dark chocolate like the Eurotrash enjoy? Last week I bought some dark chocolate truffles made in France. Man were they good!

RE: Lots of engineering
By SilthDraeth on 12/27/2010 11:27:46 AM , Rating: 2
Most chocolate in America is messed up.

You should be able to find an 85% Dark Chocolate bar from Lindt at your local supermarket. It is chocolate, cocoa butter, and sugar I believe.

Thats all that is in it. Definitely worth it over a Hersheys, Hersheys original invention was to add an emulsifier that made the milk not go bad so quickly, and everyone tries to copy it.

RE: Lots of engineering
By dflynchimp on 12/27/2010 12:34:00 PM , Rating: 2
The movie "GATTACA" comes to mind.

Don't get it
By Motoman on 12/27/2010 12:27:36 PM , Rating: 2
I just don't understand what the big deal is with chocolate anyway...sure, it's tasty and I don't mind a bite myself every once in a while...but it baffles me that it's considered so important as to get all the effort and attention that it does.

RE: Don't get it
By ClownPuncher on 12/27/2010 1:24:21 PM , Rating: 3
Because we are fat.

RE: Don't get it


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