August 13th, 2008
Smores
I love chocolate, always have. It doesn’t matter what color or kind, I’m not a chocolate racist, we can all coexist peacefully. I like a good graham cracker every now and then too, but usually they are pretty dry in my mouth. Nine times out of ten, I’ll pass on marshmallows (and I really don’t like Fluff, I don’t even trust the idea of Fluff). However, when chocolate, graham cracker, and marshmallow all get together for a party on my plate and the heat gets turned up, it’s 1+1+1=5.
I’m talking about synergy in action folks, where the whole is greater then the sum of its parts. I’m not sure who the first genius was to heat up some chocolate and a marshmallow and stick it between graham crackers, but I’m sure glad they did. It’s hard to imagine, but there was a time in which chocolate, marshmallows, and graham crackers all existed but had never been combined.
One day, they had never been combined, the next, they had. The world has never been the same. It makes you think of all the things that must have been combined and failed. Peanut butter, jelly and avocado. Cheetos, peaches, and rye bread. Potatoes, soy sauce, and cream cheese. K-Fed, Britney and Justin.
More importantly, it makes you wonder what will be combined next. If you have any unusual but savory combos, please do share.
