—the only way forward.

Anyway, give me a good solid milk chocolate any day.

Raw cocoa has become more and more expensive in the last few years for many reasons. Climate change is hell for cocoa farming. But many producing countries are also asserting their rights to fair trade, and as someone who works with chocolate, good for them. Fair pay at all stages of production is—

A good chocolate should have about 30% cocoa butter. Most cheap industrial chocolates will have other fats added, but that's bullshit and you should be mad about it. For milk and white chocolate you also add milk powder. Then there's sugar and that's it. Any other additives are cost cutting lies.

And then there's Arriba Nacional from Ecuador. What a boss of a chocolate bean. It's flowery/fruity without the sourness, highly aromatic and very expensive. You will absolutely taste the difference.

Trinitario is a hybrid of the first two and combines many of their advantages, higher yield, and slightly fruity flavor. Though Callebaut won't tell you exactly, that's almost definitely the bean they use for their ruby chocolate. (Which is pink and fruity mostly because the beans aren't fermented.)

Criollo is more expensive, has a more fancy flavor profile and will be sold to you as boutique chocolate. Unfortunately for my personal relationship with it, it has a sour note that doesn't work for me.

No amount of finesse in production can change that this bean is a little bitter when you have it by itself. It's lovely and aromatic with added sugar and milk though!

That's technically not a print! It's like pouring a mould but the mould is very very very tiny surface grooves on the foil.

Kafka, my behated. Never before or since have I been so put off by a man's introspective narrative. He's required reading in German German classes, for good reason, but damn boy.

They're not wrong, but there were other ways to go with that.

Please, we never ask why, or even how! Just vibes.

A majority of that list is still being played today, and half of them we can all still sing along to.

Unfortunately, this is how time works and I, too, would like a refund.

Maybe "In The Mouth Of Madness" for me, it actually gets scarier every time I watch it

Wait, the girlies were RIGHT?

Sometimes there's input lag where you have already written several words before it shows up on the screen. It's madness.

Well, are you?

I got 3 out of 3 but felt deeply uncertain in a weird way. Like, I had made the choice, and I was standing by it, but I couldn't tell you *why*. None of the samples I got were in my favored genres, which could have contributed to the uncertainty.

If I'm reading this right, this is average employee hours and does not factor in that many people work two or more part-time jobs and that part-time has increased in the last 20 years.