Chocolate Oranges

Imagine....You got the news today. The news that Chocolate and Orange and hereafter inseparable.

People are thrilled, (the people that love chocolate oranges that is). But I must admit my hesitance to join the festivities on this momentous occasion. I can't help but wonder if two good things can be ruined in combination.

I mean, take chocolate. Chocolate is great. Like really great. Sure, every so often you get some cheaper waxy chocolate that disappoints you, but overall it's track record is pretty good. Even after a bad experience it finds a way to sneak back into your heart, regain your trust and get you back on it's team.

The orange is a different story. Oranges have a very strong flavour. It isn't really a sweetness, it more a tartness, or maybe the sweetness is just overpowered by the acidity. Granted, this might be a personal opinion, and oranges aren't something I choose to eat. Most of my orange interactions are with the juice, but only in my smoothie. I just can't handle the orange juice on its own. Maybe I got turned off by pulp. All it took was one mouthful of pulp and I was ready to swear off anything to do with oranges for life. But I didn't do that. I can recognize that there is some goodness in oranges. So now I just deal with it in small doses.

Now let me clarify why this chocolate orange news is upsetting. From now on I won't be able to just hide the orange in my smoothie. I won't be able to just avoid chocolate oranges in the cupboard in lieu of finding just pure chocolate elsewhere. No, from now on every time I take a bite of chocolate what will I taste? Orange. What will be the distracting element in an otherwise favourite taste? Orange.

And so, I either must acquire a taste for chocolate oranges. Or, sadly, I imagine that I will eventually just come to give up chocolate.

This is disturbing news indeed.