Why do women like chocolate so much?

Like most men, I have no particular love of chocolate, and given the option of a bar of 80% cocoa finest swiss organic fair trade whatever… or say a bacon cheeseburger… I’ll go for the latter any time.

But most women seem to love the stuff, completely irrationally. Any reason?

Maybe you just don’t like chocolate? I’m a man, and love chocolate, personally.

Chocolate has sugar, caffeine, fat, and other stuff, and it’s supposed to stimulate the release of endorphins. Great stuff.

My questions would be: why don’t you like chocolate?

I like chocolate, I just don’t see what’s so great about it.

Chocolate seems to have some kind of mystical quality for 99% of birds :slight_smile:

Why do men like boobs so much?

Because we don’t have them.

At least, most of us don’t. And I hope I never get them.

I’m a guy and I think Dark Chocolate is the greatest food related item in existence.

Better than Bacon, better than Pizza.

Heck, I didn’t care much for chocolate before I discovered dark chocolate. Now I know why.

Man. Loves chocolate.

There’s nothing irrational about it; chocolate is the Food of the Gods. Dark chocolate, anyway. Milk chocolate is too insipid to bother with unless no real chocolate is available.

My wife, on the other hand, dislikes it. Which is fine with me, since that means I get it all.

The reason, as hinted at by above posters, is stereotyping. I know just as many men that lust after chocolate as women. When the women I know play up their relationship with chocolate, it’s because they’re (usually consciously) buying into the “vagina = chocolate love” idea.

I dispute this premise. As soon as you prove it we can go on to find the reason but I believe the premise is false and therefore no reason can be found which would explain it.

Oh, and I love chocolate and whenever I need boobs I need to borrow them from someone who has some.

Big, hairy, heterosexual male here, and I say there are few things on God’s gray earth to compare with chocolate. Dark and milk are both wonderful, though I do tend to prefer chocolate with something in it, as in nuts or some kind of filling, to plain chocolate.

You’re all wrong, I know what I’ve seen.

Somebody with a better neuroanatomy background will have to parse this for us, but male and female brains respond very differently to chocolate satiety:

Now that we’ve gotten the PC out of the way: http://www.news.wisc.edu/13719.

Yup, they’re a damn nuisance, aren’t they? :smiley:

Men like chocolate (I do) but it seems to be that women are the only ones accused of binge eating of it like consuming entire boxes at a sitting.

You should visit my neighborhood. LOL

I’d say it’s like 95% of men, boys and male infants HAVE THEM.

I swear it must be female hormones in the water.

Or you live in america, land of man boobs

girl … mmmmmbacon

bacon bacon bacon spam eggs and bacon

Max, I don’t think we’re delving deep enough here.

Angry, why do you hate America?

Seriously, I like chocolate, esp. dark chocolate, but I’d never pass up bacon cheeseburgers or beer for chocolate.

I’d eat the bacon cheeseburger, drink the beer, and then have the dark chocolate.

Really, it’s the only way to live. If you love America.

Dude, I don’t know who you’re hanging out with but trust me, most of the men I know love chocolate, and I know many women who don’t care for it much or at all. I agree that your premise is faulty. I don’t really see any gender differences in preference for chocolate.