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Op 11-1-2012 19:10, ervaqre schreef:
>>> No no, I am actually talking about Dutch people. Most of them come
>>> from the north though, so I hope you will be able to understand them.
>>
>> I have in the past. As long is they don't go for full on Frisian or clay
>> soaked Grunings. If they try and speak general Dutch, there's no way I
>> won't understand.
>
> Clay soaked Grunings?? I am not even from that part of the province.
> No clay around where I am from. I am pretty fluent in well, some sort
> of mixture between Westerwolds and Veenkoloniaals though. Yet, it is a
> dying language with Dutch taking over rapidly.

And the Dutch speakers are fearing being taken over by English. Even 
though the real threat is Chinese with all those snackbars.

>>> No, it is my girlfriend, she thinks I will explode when I eat too much
>>> chocolate. I should really replace her with a less socialist specimen.
>>>
>> China's known to enrich stuff like powdered milk and children's toys
>> with basic elements like lead. But putting nitroglycerin in chocolate is
>> new to me. It doesn't seem cost effective either. Even the explody bit
>> seems unlikely, I think chocolate might make the mixed in nitroglycerin
>> inert. Although, just as with dynamite, it might "sweat" out. Ask any
>> physics teacher that hasn't exploded yet.
>
> Hmmm... I am not sure if it's nitroglycerin they're putting in their
> chocolate, but it sure as hell is not edible. There's only one
> chocolate brand doing good business in China and that's Dove, a
> brandname from the Mars company. There are some Chinese brands in
> business as well and even though they're a whole LOT cheaper, nobody
> buys them because they taste like...well, nothing like chocolate at
> all.

We've got Dove chocolate over here. And Dove soap. It's best not to mix 
the two up. I must say that the taste of chocolate varies country by 
country. Both Polish and British chocolate is quite different from 
Verkade or Van Houten. Then there's the huge variety in Belgian 
chocolate or the specific company tastes like Daim, Milka or Tomblerone.

> Is it just me or am I talking too much about China here?
>
Is it just me or was I talking too much about chocolate here?

-- 
Danny.