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- Authors: Lauren Blakely
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LEO
Real men like chocolate. And they aren’t afraid to show it.
I have no shame over my love for this substance. I love it when it’s
dark, when it’s bitter, when it’s semisweet. I love it slathered on ice cream;
crafted into truffles, bars, and squares; or filled with nuts, fruit, or liqueur.
But there’s one form I can’t stand.
Chocolate fountains.
We’re talking the hardest of hard limits, especially here at The Big
Chocolate Show in the heart of Manhattan.
As I head down the aisle in hot pursuit of the next rising star, I’m
transfixed by a guy in the booth a few feet ahead. He has a bushy beard and
gnarly hands, and he swipes his index finger through the chocolate stream
in front of him.
Then licks said finger.
He wipes the chocolate drops from his beard.
And proceeds to lick that off his fingers too.
Shuddering, I jerk my gaze away from the Finger-Licking Good booth.
This is worse than going to see the latest Ed Helms F-bomb laden comedy
and getting hit with a preview for a “snowman came to life and eviscerated
me with an icicle” flick. I don’t want horror trailers before my adult
comedies, nor do I want to see cesspools of chocolate when I’m hunting for
the next great chocolatier.
I adjust my cranberry-colored tie and turn into the Heavenly booth,
admiring the classy layout, from the simple oak tables to the stone bowls
the chocolates lounge in invitingly with silver tongs beside them.
Yes, tongs. Because chocolates should be distributed in public by tongs,
not fingers.
With her usual cheery grin, our freckle-faced marketing director waves
me over from her spot manning the table. Or womanning the table, as Ginny
likes to say. She scans left, then right. Coast is clear. There’s a lull in the
booth action. She drops her voice to a clandestine whisper. “Leo, I pilfered
some goodies for you.”
“Ginny, you are brilliant and also quite nefarious.”
“I take that as the highest compliment, especially since when I was a
little girl growing up in Sydney, I had secret dreams to become a chocolate
thief.”
“Glad to see we’re making all your dreams come true.”
She slides a green ceramic plate at me then presses her finger to her lips,
her heart-shaped necklace dangling perilously close to the table. “But I
don’t want anyone to see you tasting someone else’s chocolate. It would
make us look bad.”
I shoot her a look. “It would make us look like we were on a mad hunt
for the next rising star to partner with.” As the exec in charge of business
development, that’s exactly my role at this show—finding that person.
She waves off my reply. “C’mon. Play along with me.”
“Fine. Fine. Cover me, Ginny. I’m going in.” I glance behind me, like
I’m checking for sniper fire.
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