Originally Posted by Alex Stroup

Is it the word "chocolate" that is offensive or the underlying principle? Because ever since the hurricane I've heard concerns that blacks will be redeveloped out of New Orleans.

Because if the word "chocolate" doesn't offend me when browsing porn I don't see why it should offend me when discussing economic redevelopment.

Maybe if he'd said:

"This is either going to be a chocolate city or a cracker city. It can't be both because as everybody knows chocolate doesn't go with crackers. Cookies, yes. Definitely cake. So maybe the chocolate could go with something like a cookie or cake, but I'm not really so sure that chocolate goes with fig newtons.

Maybe graham crackers. They have chocolate graham crackers don't they? Yeah, that's it. We'll develop in a way that joins together the chocolate in New Orleans with the crackers in New Orleans and I'll abdicate in favor of a Billy Graham mayorship. Everybody loves Billy Graham. Here's hoping that cracker don't die before we rebuild."

Surely that would have been a message of unity that everybody could rally around.

Originally Posted by lizziebith

I love smores...

Originally Posted by Gemini Cricket

And here I thought Germany was the Land of Chocolate.

"Mmmm. The Land of Chocolate..." ~ Homer Simpson

Originally Posted by Not Afraid

Snowflake, you RUINED me last night with the food talk. Pasta with Pesto just didn't do it al all. Tonight, it is heroin chicken for me.

Originally Posted by €uroMeinke

Germans are definately Krauts - or sausage - The Swiss though might be Chocolate, and perhaps the Belgians too.