I can't stand white chocolate. Milk chocolate is okay, but you can really jumpstart my engine with some dark chocolate. That's why I prefer Mounds over Almond Joy, even though Almond Joy is the better-selling candy bar. Strangely enough, I seem to be viewed as a pariah among some because I do prefer dark chocolate. I consider myself a connoisseur though.

When I was a teenager, my parents took me to Boston to go to a "chocolate buffet" that a hotel held every Saturday afternoon during winters. It was abject heaven. Imagine several tables filled with cakes, cookies, chocolate fondues with fruits to dip, cheesecakes -- all chocolate or chocolate-based. And it was all-you-can-eat. Had I made plans to go on a regular basis when I lived there, I would've been the fattest person in all of Boston.