“You’re Asexual, so how could you possibly enjoy watching/reading/engaging with sexual content?!?!”
The same way I’m able to enjoy horror movies without having murdered an entire cabin full of teenagers before, Barbara you pedantic piece of pipe cleaner.
love treachery. love betrayal. love to see the sacred bond of mutual trust being shattered and torn apart in a single atrocious and revolting moment of revelation. also love fratricide and patricide and wickedness and violence and agony in general
Remember, remember, the Fifth of November, the Gunpowder Treason and Plot. I know of no reason why the Gunpowder Treason should ever be forgot… But what of the man? I know his name was Guy Fawkes and I know, in 1605, he attempted to blow up the Houses of Parliament. But who was he really? What was he like? We are told to remember the idea, not the man, because a man can fail. He can be caught, he can be killed and forgotten, but 400 years later, an idea can still change the world. I’ve witnessed first hand the power of ideas, I’ve seen people kill in the name of them, and die defending them… but you cannot kiss an idea, cannot touch it, or hold it… ideas do not bleed, they do not feel pain, they do not love… And it is not an idea that I miss, it is a man… A man that made me remember the Fifth of November. A man that I will never forget.
Unpopular opinion but I suspect that most of chocolate guy’s sculptures–the ones he doesn’t explicitly eat on camera–are probably barely more edible than fondant sculptures.
There are a handful of things that make me guess that.
1) Good chocolate is pretty expensive. There’s a LOT of waste in these sculpture processes.
1a) If the waste gets melted down and reused (probable) that’s… um… I mean there are ways to do it sanitarily but it will pick up tastes.
1b) You need really well-controlled environmental conditions to make good chocolate even if you’re starting from good ingredients. Part of why Swiss chocolate tastes distinctly different from Belgian chocolate tastes distinctly different from (good) American chocolate is differences in environmental conditions in the factory–conditions that they go to a lot of trouble to regulate. The act of sculpting is going to ruin a lot of that.
2) Chocolate sculptures that a normal person can buy are made out of pretty bad chocolate.
2a) The reason for this is that chocolate is only barely a solid at room temperature and will melt in a warm room. It’s stable at a slightly higher temperature if you temper it, but only slightly. (And most of his chocolate is NOT tempered.) You need to add stabilizers and/or remove some of the parts that make chocolate taste good in order to get something robust.
3) Relatedly, he uses his hands for a lot of this stuff. Hands will melt halfway-decent chocolate really fast. Like, it’s maybe possible to use it anyway, if you’re fast and if you’re rarely touching it other than the camera shots, but it’s not likely. It probably means, as I said in 2a, that there are added stabilizers and/or components of the chocolate removed, all of which affect the taste.
4) There are definitely some scenes where his chocolate has a clay-like consistency. That’s modeling chocolate, and I’ve never taken a bite of it but I’m told it doesn’t taste great. (Most people say it tastes better than fondant, but maybe not by much.)
100%
The snake and the whale and the telescope and the sword in the stone and the robot baker are all technically impressive but probably taste like absolute shit. You do not want to eat those.
The weird-ass little mushroom cakes and and the peach swan thing and the skateboard cookie and things like that are actually made out of shit that would taste good.
The sugar-glass butterfly and roses will just taste like sugar and any extracts that are added to them, they are essentially just really really fancy hard candy.
I actually kind of hate his videos. The big sculptures seem like such an enormous, obnoxious waste because they are probably totally inedible (I mean you technically COULD eat them, and they would probably taste sweet, but also that airbrush food-grade paint doesn’t taste great, it’s kind of bitter, so it’s probably just an introductory note of bitterness followed by bland, chalky chocolate). It makes sense, given that he’s in Vegas and I’m sure that they’re being used as ridiculous displays at various casinos and stuff, but the big sculptures he does seem like such utter bullshit compared to the cute, creative, individual servings of very pretty cakes that he makes that look actually tasty.
sometimes, you do things and you do them not because you’re thinking but because you’re feeling. because you’re feeling too much. and you can’t always control the things you do when you’re feeling too much.
