Alicorn comments on Fighting Akrasia: Finding the Source - Less Wrong

6 Post author: gworley 07 August 2009 02:49PM

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Comment author: CronoDAS 07 August 2009 09:40:13PM 2 points [-]

I've read that self-described chocolate addicts don't get any craving relief from flavorless pills with chocolate on the inside, while "white chocolate" that contains no cocoa does have an effect. So whatever makes chocolate addictive doesn't have all that much to do with what happens after it's swallowed.

Comment author: Alicorn 07 August 2009 09:52:25PM 0 points [-]

At least ostensibly, white chocolate contains cocoa butter.

Comment author: anonym 08 August 2009 05:05:48AM 1 point [-]

White chocolate doesn't always contain cocoa butter, and the FDA, like most chocolate connoisseurs, doesn't consider it chocolate because it doesn't contain chocolate liquor.