I have a few questies, but trying to find them is the challenge.
The most wanted items are: Pot of Gold, Pudao of Time, Auctioneer's Ledger, and Baby Yan.
Hummy asked me to do this a million hours ago, and I didn't think it would be this long or take this long to finish, but I have to ensure quality or I won't be happy.
Here's a peek at the chocolate adventures happening in my life right now. Please do not read if you're hungry.
CHOCOLATE!X
I'm on a widescreen laptop, so this is even longer than it looks to me. Sweet heavens.
Don't get me wrong; I've always loved chocolate. I've been a chocolate eater—white, milk, minty, and dark—from my earliest years in memory. But, see…
I looked up menus for the fast food places I like to see what all they have. It's part of some food adventures I'll detail one day if they go the way I'd like them to. I discovered these places I love have more good than just fries. And Icees, in Burger King's case. And drumsticks, in KFC's case. They got desserts. They got chicken tenders. They got drinks besides Sprite/Sierra Mist. Things I eat and drink!
It's a matter of being brave enough to ask for a different food from what I usually get. I might make a post about my troubles with asking for things one day.
Most of what I've tried has been SO GOOD, SO GOOD. Today, we're talking about chocolates, so let's talk about the chocolate at these places.
We have Tim Hortonses now, and I'm tryin' their donuts. I want to use Timmies as an excuse to start eating bagels.
I've had chocolate dip, double chocolate, and one called "brownie batter." The chocolate dip is a plain donut with chocolate on top. Double chocolate is the same thing made with chocolate cake. The brownie batter one looks exactly like the chocolate dip on the outside, except with no hole and with chunks of brownie sprinkled on it. I bit into this thing, and tHE THING WAS FILLED WITH CHOCOLATE. IT'S REALLY GOOD, YOU GUYS. I've never had a filled donut before.
Arby's Molten Lava Cake. I talked about this during the event. I hadn't eaten cake in many years before I started eating this. The website says it's a limited time item. I searched it and it appears to be seasonal. 'Cause everyone who talks about it is talking about it during the winter. Another reason to like winter, yo. IT'S SO GOOD YOU NEED TO TRY IT IF YOU LIKE CHOCOLATE CAKE AND THERE IS NOTHING STOPPING YOU FROM GOING TO ARBY'S.
I could eat these suckers all day. They're individual cakes. Chocolate chips on chocolate fudge(?) on chocolate cake. WARM. Eat that mother trucker and scrape the container with the spoon. Lick it? Be my guest. Still good when reheated!
I think Arby's has cookies. I shall try those at some point. When I'm brave enough. Maybe when my Arby's says they've stopped selling the cake. They changed the drive-thru menu and it's missing the cake, but I can still order the cakes for now. Since I just discovered the cake… whew!
KFC's got their chocolate chip cake and lemon cake. I learned I don't like lemon cake because of a funny-ish experience, but we're doing chocolate today. The chocolate chip cake is a chocolate cake with white icing in, like… this netting/stripe pattern. No chocolate chips in sight.
I said during the event how I got that whole chocolate chip cake because they charged less for it than for an individual slice (which is considered a side item and charged as such). I also said, "I'm not sure I'd ever get this again," because the way the cake tastes isn't, um… the way I'm finding I like my chocolate cake, it tastes like a brownie, I guess? I like it warmed up, too, like a brownie fresh out of the oven would be. We make our brownies from a mix, and I've hardly ever eaten a brownie that wasn't one of those.
Anyway, that KFC cake. My first taste of it was refrigerator cold. It tasted like other cake I had many times before I didn't eat cake. Not a bad taste, but I'm not a fan. I hoped I would like it more if I warmed it up. I was right. (For once! WOOHOO! ) It's so good. It's amazing. I could do without the icing, but I'll live.
I want to get more at some point. We're not usually down by KFC before they close.
If you didn't know, I'm lactose intolerant. That means milk products are a dangerous game. Milk, ice cream, cheese, butter, chocolate… none of the above has made me sick. WEIRD, RIGHT‽
I have times in my life when I'm temporarily not lactose intolerant. I eat all the dairy products I want and nothing bad happens. I don't recall my stomach being even a bit bothered during these times. How do I know when these times are over? *intense stare* The hard way.
It seems the more melty a dairy product is, the more likely it is that it'll make me sick.
When I was eating that brownie donut, I was thinking, "I'm going to die." I. DIDN'T. OH MY COD.
I do have non-fast food adventures of the chocolatey kind to report.
Remember when I found chocolate lactose-free ice cream? Breyer's? The store where I found it stopped selling it. Even in vanilla. I was so heartbroken. Guess what I found?
They have a whole section dedicated to lactose-free and dairy-free.
I have dairy-free ice cream sandwiches and will perhaps get dairy-free chocolate ice cream. I CAN'T BELIEVE IT HAPPENED. I CAN'T BELIEVE I FOUND IT. I DID THE DRAMATIC GASP THING AGAIN, TOO!
I don't remember how dairy ice cream sandwiches tasted, but I MISSED THOSE SO BADLY. These are small, almost square, and SO GOOD. Totally addictive. They're made with coconut milk instead of cow milk.
Only Applebee's goodies have made me sick. The Triple Chocolate Meltdown and the Brownie Bite. They're served warm with chocolate sauce atop and a scoop of vanilla ice cream on the side. It's heavenly delicious instant death by lactose. I cut off the half of these desserts that isn't touching the ice cream and let father eat the rest. My stomach complains about it.
Weirdly? I had a similar warm chocolate cake, with chocolate sauce, served with an ice cream scoop, at another restaurant (I told the waiter my father and I would split one cake and that's probably why we got two scoops of ice cream with it), and half of that cake did not make me sick. Apparently, my stomach is just as done with Applebee's as I am. I've been there too many times. I need a break.
Speaking of parents, my mom is like, "What's with you and sweets lately?" "What's with you and chocolate cake lately?" I've always been this way, mother. I didn't feel like I was allowed to ask for anything, so I kept it inside.
My daddy showed me a couple brands that make dairy-free ice cream in flavors like mint chocolate chip, cookies and cream, dark chocolate, and something peanut butter, was it? Lots of flavors made up of things I like. WITHOUT THE DAIRY!
Next time mumsy wants to order a pizza… Pizza Hut and Papa John's have chocolate chip cookies and brownies I want to try.
The chocolate chip cookie is one of those big ones that you slice up. Cookie pizza!
The brownies are in squares. I mustn't devour them all. There's also possibly some brookie magic happening here. Brookie: brownie + cookie. WITH CHOCOLATE CHIPS, IF SO.
I'm interested in making my own chocolate. I'm interested in switching from eating milk chocolate primarily to dark chocolate. I'm not much for white chocolate, but I'll take it. If Cookies' n' Creme counts as white chocolate, it's a big fat exception. I love me some Cookies n' Creme.
Can I make my own dark chocolate? My own Cookies n' Creme? PLEASE!
Other sister used to tell me chocolate would give me pimples.
If you read all of this, you get a share of all of my chocolate.
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) It's so good. It's amazing. I could do without the icing, but I'll live.