Two of my favorite things in the same place

[dianeduane]

...But Reese's peanut butter cups would have nothing on this confection.

"Get your gold off of my chocolate."

"No, you get your chocolate out from under my gold!" 

(...pauses to make note of T-shirt slogan:  "I'd sooner be in Valrhona than Valhalla.")

Comments

[the-10thdoctor.livejournal.com]

"Tasting gold is like touching eternity."

WTF? No it's not. *shivers*

[raisedbymoogles.livejournal.com]

o_O I think I'll stick with Reese's, thx.

[patgund.livejournal.com]

"I'd sooner be in Valrhona than Valhalla."

Why choose. After all, a *proper* afterlife would have chocolate.

[starcat-jewel.livejournal.com]

Yikes! Gold may be edible and non-harmful, but I still have a reflexive reaction of, "Heavy metal poisoning, ew!"

I like your T-shirt slogan. Mentioned it to Russ, who says he doesn't think there are enough people in America who would get it. I tend to agree; I'm a chocolate-lover, and I only know what Valrhona is because I hang out with some fairly serious foodies. But it's still cute.

[madfilkentist]

My reaction to heavy metal ingestion is much the same. Presumably consuming gold in very small amounts is harmless, or dental gold would be a problem, but I'd want to know more.

[bellinghman.livejournal.com]

Consuming gold in large quantities is also OK. It's about the most unreactive metal you can get - hence the fact it stays nice and shiny and glittery, rather than oxidising and going dull like lead and aluminium and copper.

But boy, your faeces will look weird.

[petermorwood.livejournal.com]

Gold and silver leaf/foil is used in Indian cooking, mostly dishes originating with (I think) the Moghuls; it's called vark. The Wikipedia entry refers only to silver, and use on sweets; however, I've eaten gold, sprinkled on top of a complicated lamb/chicken/veggie/whatnot biriyani.

It was so thin that the bits sprinkled on top flexed and fluttered in an interesting sparkly way in the rising heat of the food and, typical of the way my mind sometimes works, it reminded me of those little red cellophane fish that you'd hold on the palm of your hand; they'd wrinkle and curl, and thus show how passionate (or dishonest, or whatever it was that week) you were.

Am I showing my age or what?

But the gold certainly beats hundreds-and-thousands as a decoration... :-)

[sharikkamur.livejournal.com]

I'm sure that gold's not a notably magnetic metal...

What a waste of good chocolate!

[pyrzqxgl.livejournal.com]

I've got four gold crowns, so all the chocolate I eat has much more gold on it than that!

[spacelogic.livejournal.com]

Wow. How do people come up with ideas like that? I'm picturing a skit with the Monty Python crew sitting around a table discussing how the now-bankrupt manufacturer of "crunchy frog" chocolates might recover, and the Eric Idle character suddenly saying "I've got an idea! What if he made a new chocolate with gold in?"

Does not compute....

[von-krag.livejournal.com]

Gold is edible and as a Pastry Chef I use it. I also think it's a touch silly to do so. Of the 5 or so brands of chocolate I use in both confectionary and pastry work I'd say Valrhona is # 1 or 2 in most apps where cost is no object but it's far too costly for everyday use.

[majaji.livejournal.com]

Oh my! I almost want to order it for myself just to see it in person! that's something else. Who would have thought?

[trdsf.livejournal.com]

There is a chocolatier here in Columbus that does something like that--dark chocolate truffle in a dark chocolate envelope, dusted with 24K gold. He calls it 'Prince of Darkness' and it will knock your knees out from under you. :)

[trdsf.livejournal.com]

Ohyeah. This is the guy (http://pureimaginationchocolatier.com/).