Posted on Wed, 15 Feb 2012
Chocolate Guilt And Sin-Free
There is an amazing chocolate trial in Harbour City, Kowloon where I live. So imagine my plight as I am confronted with chocolate as I leave my home everyday. Not that I am complaining except for the fact that I can only drool and tell myself that my waistline does not need an extra love handle. With that I look, I smell and I walkaway.. however I was pleasantly surprised to find chocolate that I could indulge in, also around the corner from where I live at the local Hong Kong Body Shop store where their chocolate promotion is happening.
Ok definitely not edible but hey maybe you can use it as some kind of massage aphrodisiac (have I given you a tasty boudoir idea?) … maybe just the fact that it is chocolate lends a placebo effect to my tastebuds and olafactories whilst consoling self that it is not fattening.
Anyway, the promo is called Chocomania, and is on now at all The Body Shop’s stores in Hong Kong. Guilt and Sin-free – we have been assured!
Just on the subject of Valentines’ Day – here are 5 interesting things that I took from their press release to share with you:
- In the Middle Ages, young men and women drew names from a bowl to see who their valentines would be. They would wear these names on their sleeves for one week.
- Richard Cadbury, founder of Cadbury’s, invented the first Valentine’s Day candy box in the late 1800s.
- In Medieval times, girls ate unusual foods on St Valentine’s Day to make them dream of their future husband.
- In 1537, England’s King Henry VII officially declared February 14th the holiday of St. Valentine’s Day.
- One condition of Hawaii becoming a state was that it begins to celebrate the Holiday of Valentine’s Day. Valentine’s Day, the day celebrating love, was previously not a part of their island culture.
