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KFC Double Down - the review
By Lachlan Forsyth
I'd expected the meat sweats.
I'd envisaged the hot flushes.
I'd even anticipated the urge to have a sleep on the Campbell Live couch.
What I hadn't expected was to be seeing stars dancing about my desk and hearing snippets of Jimi Hendrix songs wafting about the office.
I glanced around to see where that ghostly rendition of Purple Haze was coming from, but couldn't see past the shimmering rainbow over by the photocopier. Then it hit me - I was in the clammy grip of food-related delirium.
Maybe it was time for that lie-down.
An hour earlier I'd been working my way through KFC's notorious Double Down burger, part of a crack-team of chicken-eaters who were prepared for a calorific head-trip in the name of entertainment.
Where better to source a group of excitable Double-Down devotees to attend an advance taste-test than online? The Double Down Facebook page (read on here)

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Chocolate Goodness

I'm sitting here eating my first fudge brownie in months and my first chocolate treat in over a month.
Its a 7 by 8cm, 80gram piece of heaven. Mrs Higgins, you my dear ROCK!
With that being said, if Mrs Higgins rocks then the Mayans and Aztecs are Rock Gods in comparison. Their employment of the cacao seed made its possible for us to enjoy the treats of chocolates, chocolate drinks ( milkshakes,hot chocolates, moccacinos, etc). The Mayans and the Aztecs realised the potential of cacao seed and thousands of years ago were already using the cacao bean to make drinks. It was during the Spanish Conquest that the Spaniards also realised the value of the seed and began importing it back to the mainland. Within 100 years of introducing to Spain it's popularity had spread all over Europe. However it was expensive to import and it remained an "elite beverage" for the upper class who could afford it. It wouldn't be until the 1800s that the drink would become a confection and easier to produce. Fast forward into the 21st century and my how chocolate has gone from strictly a beverage into a confection, from limited consumption by the upper class to accessible by the public and to the many forms and combinations of sweet and wonderful (and sometimes sickly)delight.