Ooooh, I think I had heard the Hornblower bit, too, though Kirk was, har-hmph, a little more succesful with the ladies! The Cook theory came from Blue Lattitudes, which is a very enjoyable and informative book in a rollicking sort of style.

See, in Europe, you guys have good chocolate and lots of it. Here in the States, we are deprived. I mean, have you ever eaten a Hershey bar? So compared to 99% of our chocolate, real Cadbury is heaven.

That makes me wonder, what's considered the really good German chocolate? Al I've had is Ritter and Kinder, really. *misses Kinder eggs so very, very much*