While watching cooking shows on Georgia satellite tv this weekend, I noticed a preponderance of shows that focused only on desserts. Maybe it’s because I don’t really have a sweet tooth and would rather eat a bag of potato chips than a bag of chocolate cookies, but this really turned me off.

First of all, all the recipes had similar flavor profiles. Grandma’s Chocolate Cake had chocolate, vanilla extract, and coffee as the main flavoring agents. Suzy’s Chocolate Pudding also had chocolate, vanilla extract, and coffee as ingredients. In fact, four out of the five recipes in the show featured the trinity of chocolate, vanilla, and coffee. The only exception to this featured orange. I understand the reasoning behind this as according to the host, ‘vanilla and coffee make chocolate taste more chocolaty,’ but I think saying so once and demonstrating with one dish would have been enough.

Next, obesity is at epidemic levels in this country. We do not really need the cooking channel to give us five chocolate, calorie-bomb recipes. I can appreciate that a lot of people like chocolate, but I think a whole day devoted to it is overkill. I would have been more interested had they used chocolate in savory applications like a mole sauce than in them making desserts all day.

I guess there’s not really anything I can do to stop the ‘Chocolathon,’ but next time, I’d appreciate ‘Bacon Day.’

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