Borderline chocolate experience

[alshainofthenorth]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "Catlady (Rita Prince 
Winston)" <catlady at w...> wrote:
> 
> > Does anyone know if the Aztecs had a deity of chocolate
> 
> I'm inclined to think it's Quetzalcoatl. When he was king, no one 
had
> to work for a living, because all good things just grew on their 
own.
> Quetzal feathers grew on trees, turquoise grew on trees, chocolate
> grew on trees... but when he departed, he turned all those fine
> feather and gem and chocolate trees to worthless mesquite trees ... 
> 
> By wonderful co-incidence, a post on another list just hours ago
> turned me onto to www.godchecker.com a site which lists lots of gods
> including a "Find a God" search.   
> 
> I search for God Of CHOCOLATE and
> http://www.godchecker.com/pantheon/index.php?
_results=Y&name=&pantheon=&sex=&Submit.x=19&Submit.y=10&godof=choc&key
w=
> 
> and Quetzalcoatl was one of the search results offered.
> 
> > and if he/she has a temple where I can present burnt offerings? 
> 
> I've never heard of Aztec gods liking burnt offering. Many of them
> like human hearts, ripped out alive and still beating and bloody and
> RAW, but it is said that Quetzalcoatl didn't want human sacrifices 
to
> him. He liked wet offerings of blood produced by piercing one's own
> penis (tongue for females) with a thorn.
> 

Alshain again:
Ouch. I was a bit worried thet it would be a human 

> 
> Someday I will try that stuff, but I would hate to be left unable to
> enjoy the ordinary choccies that give my ignorant palatte so much
> pleasure.

Oh, I have no problems with eating ordinary choccies. There's nothing 
like variety to keep your palate on its toes, and it comes down to 
what kind of chocolate you want at that particular moment. And I 
still think the local market leader (link below) is delish.
http://www.northerner.com/products/mat-choklad-karlfazer-blue.html
(nope, don't work for them either.)

Well, almost no problems with ordinary choccies. In the early 
nineties, just after Russia had been democratised, I had the worst 
chocolate experience of my entire life -- a Russian-made milk 
chocolate that had a mouthfeel like the cocoa had been mixed with 
liberal amounts of flour. It was... interesting (said with a Snape-
ish inflection). Things have changed for the better -- had a box of 
nice Estonian chocolates for Christmas last year. Capitalism isn't 
such a bad thing after all. :-) 

Alshain