Why are there no chocolate flavored vegetables?

[undeterred]

I mean, it would make eating a sensible diet so much simpler. :shrug:

[MissMillie]

1. On Iron Chef

a few weeks ago, one of the chefs cooked some asparagas in a sweet wine and some kind of juice, then covered the spears in chocolate and blast chilled it.

Frankly, I like asparagas (as well as most veggies) just the way it is, but...

[Nicholas D Wolfwood]

7. I would kill someone to eat just about any of the Iron Chef dishes.

[Blue-Jay]

23. I dunno. Some of that stuff looks disgusting.

Most of it makes me drool, however.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

2. Chocolate IS a vegetable.

Or you could just dip carrots and broccoli and such in chocolate. Yum.

[jobycom]

4. LOL True. Or it's made from one. Several, counting sugar.

[pitohui]

8. yeah, chocolate grows on a tree

it's pretty definitely vegetable as far as i can tell

[petronius]

9. It's from the seed pod, so wouldn't it be a fruit?

[pitohui]

12. ok a fruit then, but vegetarians eat fruit

i think it's still classed in the veggie "phylum" :-)

[petronius]

18. Works for me - I always find the 5 daily veggies harder to work in

than the five daily fruits, so calling it a veggie puts me way over the RDA...

I was thinking of the episode of Spin City where James has the battle with the tomato guy - the fruit/veggie dichotomy was a repeated plot point...

[MountainLaurel]

3. Please, for heaven's sake

Big agribusiness is already doing enough weird shit to our food (like adding spider DNA to food products), let's not encourage them.

[undeterred]

6. I was blaming the Intelligent Designer

for not thinking of it in the first place!

[friesianrider]

11. At the risk of sounding naive...

Is that true?! Spider DNA?

[MountainLaurel]

13. Some links

Another area of animal research is the production of spider silk from genetically modified goats. Spider silk, an ultra-strong material that can be used in a variety of industrial products, including sutures and bulletproof vests, is difficult to cultivate commercially. Industry researchers are now able to produce spider silk by harvesting a protein from the milk of goats engineered with a spider gene. http://pewagbiotech.org/research/harvest/

http://www.organicconsumers.org/ge/spidervirus.cfm

http://www.nature.com/news/2000/000601/full/000601-7.html

http://archives.foodsafetynetwork.ca/agnet/2003/11-2003/agnet_nov_28.htm#story4

http://www.mercola.com/display/PrintPage.aspx?docid=26095&PrintPage=yes

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/chronicle/archive/2003/12/23/BAGTL3T1NO1.DTL

http://www.martygallagher.com/more/44_0_1_0_M

http://scope.educ.washington.edu/gmfood/position/clark.php?link=link6

http://www.agbioworld.org/newsletter_wm/index.php?caseid=archive&newsid=1320

[LaurenG]

17. Why the hell would they add spider DNA to food?

You got me on that one, do you know why?

On edit: Ok I kept reading thanks for the links. Yuck

[Taxloss]

5. Sugar beet? Sugar cane? Sweet potatoes?

Not chocolate, but close. Malt is a grain, but can taste chocolatey.

[Wapsie B]

10. Chocolate-dipped kholrabi............

damn that's good! ;-)

[edbermac]

14. Why don't we feed mayonnaise to tuna fish?

It would save everyone a lot of aggrevation...:shrug:

[Momgonepostal]

15. Because mayonaisse is from Satan

[ucmike]

16. there are, but the liberal media won't tell the truth about it.

[undeterred]

19. ...

:rofl:

[cmd]

20. Didn't your mom tell you about Hershey's syrup? n/t

[undeterred]

22. yeah

but it doesn't go well with green beans :shrug:

[SoCalDem]

21. Same reason there's no tuna-flavored ice cream

:)

[Gregorian]

24. You obviously haven't been watching enough Iron Chef.

It's a rare day when that ice cream machine does not run. Oh the horror.

[vixengrl]

25. Well, not quite...

but this is a start-- http://davesgarden.com/pf/go/101954/

I understand they're kind of sweet with a hint of spice.

[Dangerously Amused]

26. I've grown an herb called "Chocolate Mint" and it tastes like...

...chicken.

Just kidding. It really does taste like chocolate mint.

[XemaSab]

27. Mole sauce

yummah!