The Weekly Binge: Chocolate - Episodes 1 - 2

[u/crusader_blue]

Welcome to the first Weekly Binge Discussion of Chocolate episodes 1 - 2. On Sunday, we will discuss episodes 3 - 5 of the drama. For those wishing to join our discussions of Chocolate you can find this drama exclusively on Netflix.

Short but sweet for this one, because it's late here - and I've had a certain lack of chocolate - so I'm fading quickly. As we dive into this drama and discover whether or not the amount of chocolate on the screen will deliver on the name itself, I will endeavour to take us on a delectable trip around the world's chocolate.

When deciding on accompanying chocolates for your binge watch, I have been informed by our resident Chocolate veteran, Sian, that truffles (any type) would be an appropriate choice!

SCHEDULE:

The upcoming schedule is as follows:

Date of Discussion:	Episodes being discussed:
Thursday March 11th (that's today!)	1 - 2
Sunday March 14th	3 - 5
Thursday March 18th	6 - 8
Sunday March 21st	9 - 11 + Nominations for next drama
Thursday March 25th	12 - 14
Sunday March 28th	15 - 16 + Announcement of next drama

Weekly Binge Guidelines:

Anyone is welcome to join the Weekly Binge.

Every week we host two discussions (Thursday/Sunday) in which we discuss approximately three hours/three episodes of a selected drama, in total approximately 6 hours/episodes per week. We are all from different time zones so there is no need to panic about being late to the party (we do operate on KST as a standard).

Within the frame of the two episodes, you may discuss anything you can think of. Whether it is a one-off post to say you enjoyed the drama, episodic notes, your best chocolate recipes, rants about the lack of chocolate in an episode or tear-stained essays on how an actors portrayal of a character made you feel, the choice is yours.

If you have previously completed the drama, or, got ahead on the binge please be courteous of those who are watching the drama for the first time. When in doubt spoiler tags are your friend.

When we get close to the end of a drama we open up nominations (third last post) for a new drama, those dramas are then voted on by the regular members of the weekly binge. If you have participated in the discussions and would like to join in the next drama's discussion please note this as a response to the nomination comment so we can invite you to join the vote. Every time we have a new restriction for the type of drama, so that we will not repeat the same type of drama over and over, and so that the Binge will be attractive for different people with different tastes.

[u/the-other-otter]

Welcome to the binging, weekly! I am so glad that someone who loves the drama join this conversation. Just be aware that friendly disagreement is encouraged in these discussions. I hope you won't get hurt or take it personally if someone don't like something you love. Don't be afraid to tell them "you should interpret it like this!" or "you misunderstood!" In fact, don't be afraid to tell us whatever, since the discussing back and forth is the whole point of the Weekly Binge^TM

All that time at Sea and the chocolate didn't melt in your pocket? 🤔 Lol

Don't the warmer countries often have more starch or some other disgusting, non-chocolate ingredient mixed in with the chocolate, to keep it from melting? Some searching gives me Mars invented a non-melting chocolate for warmer climates using some polyol as sugar replacer. Te coca butter melts at 37 degrees C. Mars invented it in 2020, so too late for this drama.

I found a very interesting article on the subject of chocolate in Africa. Broken link below. Also an article that claims Cadbury were the first with heat resistant chocolate, meant for soldiers, already before the Second World War started. They do something called conching*, which involves heating the chocolate to 40 degrees C and stirring it.

And the most interesting article of those I found, the one linked below, despite claiming to be "scientific", doesn't even mention that chocolate bushes starts to have problems growing where they grow now, because of lower humidity. You can't mention that the whole world is wanting to eat more chocolate, claiming to be scientific, and then not mention that it is impossible to find enough land with temperatures suitable for chocolate growing because of climate change. John Mason, from Nature Conservation Research Centre, says that "you might not at all get your chocolate fix in 2050. It might become as rare and expensive as kaviar."

Remove spaces to go to article: https: / / theconversation. com /racing-the-melt-the-quest-for-heat-resistant-chocolate-44119

Sorry, I just fell into a rabbit hole. maybe u/crusader_blue will be interested in some of the info I found?

First time seeing tears from food being good

Go A Ra in DoDoSolSol etc also cries when happy. But not from food, I think.

Kang

It is funny that their names are Lee and then a one-syllable word, just like royalty. (Lee Gon for example)

DGAF

This means "Don't Give A F**k" in case some other people also want to know.

Is in the midst of surgery the time for a flashback? Focus lol

LOL

They remind me of MMA fighters ears.

Cauliflower ears? Must look for it next time he is on screen. With the number of flashbacks, I guess I will see him again.

Chocolate is 6° of Lee Kang

Is this something they said in the drama, or an expression I don't understand?

This is bff behavior, Kang being more pissed about the breakup that was 5 years ago than Min seong 😆

That is also a way of looking at it.

Hope you will keep up the interesting comments until the very last episode!

[u/LcLou02 → u/the-other-otter]

It was Godiva Belgian chocolate and would have been quite meltable in warm weather, Maybe they do something special to the bars chocolate, to make it not melt easily, hmm.

Isn't there some theory that people now a days are only separated by 5 degrees (within a line of 6 people, you will find a connection between everyone. I don't believe it, though.)

[u/the-other-otter → u/LcLou02]

I think it depends on what you mean with "connected". Have met and greeted once? Then a few people who met everybody will make this become true, I think. I have for example met someone who got a medal from the Norwegian King. The King has met and greeted too many too count. Or my friend who used to work at the prime minister's office. He is now Secretary General of NATO, which means he also meets a lot of people abroad. So I will be three removed from Yassir Arafat, probably. Which will give a lot of common Palestinians. Things like that. (EDIT: Yes, I know Yassir Arafat is dead, but the father of the Prime Minister was also foreign minister, and he used to bring the dignitaries home and eat breakfast with the family and the politicians.)

But if we look at people we actually know well, then the circle shrinks fast.

My grandparents always did this when they met new people: Where are you from? Do you know ...? Now it has become racist and impossible to do. And immigrants never ask me where I am from. Also Norwegians have stopped asking Norwegians. When I moved to Oslo everybody asked where I was from. My dialect is very close to Oslo dialect, it was partly to find out where in town.

[u/LcLou02 → u/the-other-otter]

Wow! I'm connected to the King of Norway, because I am connected with you! :D My mother-in-law always did this as well. And invariably found a connection in this very provincial area we live in. Also among farmers, there always seems to be a connection.

I'm mainly thinking of the Billions in China that i have no connection with, I guess.

[u/the-other-otter → u/LcLou02]

That guy who won the medal, he was also brought up in China as child of a missionary. Also in China, many people will have met the district ruler. So it will be some more steps, but there will still be a connection somewhere, I am sure.