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Byline: Jeffrey Steingarten
Unlikely as it may sound, I find myself in the top centile of chocolate consumption in America. Only one person in 140 eats chocolate every day, and I am he. I never realized quite how alone I am. More than half of all Americans report that chocolate is their favorite flavor, way ahead of berries, which occupy the number-two slot. What are they waiting for?
The most avid chocolate eaters in the country are white people, women in their 30s, males in their teens, and inhabitants of the Western states. The Swiss eat the most chocolate in the world, twice as much as we do. In 1876, they invented milk chocolate, which I have found ...