A chemist invents a type of treat that tastes, and looks, almost exactly like chocolate, melts and is as usable as chocolate, can even be made into candy bars. And yet, it is chemically safe for all humans and almost all galactics. -- Anon Guest
[AN: Carob!]
Deathworlders make very tasty things. This is known. Also known is the fact that most of the ingredients are deadly to most known cogniscent life. No matter how many things one can do with fruit and sugar[1], they want to know about the rest of it. They want to know about chocolate.
Thanks to theobromine, they just can't. This has caused outrage in many planetary systems. However, there are alternatives.
"Earth's had it for years, but it was always viewed as subpar. The gritty mouthfeel was something many people couldn't get over. However, sufficient milling can get rid of the fibre particles from the seed pod shells," Amy Guylian was describing her process. "In combination with some simple fats, I managed to get so close that even experts can't tell the difference. After that, it's simply a matter of treating it like any other chocolate."
The end result still had allergen warnings, but they were for far fewer species than the warnings on chocolate. It was Havenworlder Safe to level four, an unprecedented milestone.
Level five Havenworlders didn't travel much, anyway. The level fours barely traveled at all. For the rest of the Alliance, it was summarised as, HAVENWORLDER SAFE CHOCOLATE and celebrated throughout.
Amy became an overnight celebrity and had to corporatise just to manage the profits. As it was, a good ninety percent of her instantaneous income went to public funding without anything in the way of protest. She had, after all, begun her work for the greater good. Becoming a corporation simply meant she could direct those funds according to her personal desires.
Meanwhile, the Havenworlders were going berzerk. There were liveblogs of their First Chocolate, people were sending around samples of all the Havenworlder-safe things that Humans had already done. Havenworlders were experimenting with their own blends and candies.
And, like Amy, they were creating sculptures out of the stuff. Then holding parties where they ate it all afterwards.
Because why let good chocolate just sit there?
[1] Google Amaury Guichon and watch him making things on YouTube. You're welcome.
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