Eating a chocolate-flavored coffee bean

[pegkerr]

When I put it into my mouth, the first perception is shape alone: it is perfectly smooth, hard and tasteless. But as I roll it around my tongue, the surface warms, softens, and sweetens, and I taste the dark chocolate, at first merely covering the oval shape, but now sliding off and dissolving into my mouth.

I bite down. My teeth effortlessly close through the surface of softening chocolate to the hard brittleness within, which I quickly crush noisily into grit. The chocolate flavor instantly changes, adding the darker notes of coffee. The crunchy bits catch in my teeth, mixing with the melting chocolate as I chew, and then the noise quiets as the chocolate melts and eventually disappears, leaving only the grit behind, which my chewing grinds to finer and finer powder. I swallow, and the taste slowly softens and then dissapates, as I pick out the last few bits of coffee bean still caught in my teeth.

Comments

[copperwise.livejournal.com]

Oh. Lovely. And now I want one.

[pameladean]

You have taken me back very vividly to that sunny too-early summer morning in the con suite of the Fourth Street Fantasy Convention, where many in elisem and Juan's wedding party met briefly to consume chocolate-covered coffee beans as a quicker means of waking up than drinking entire cups of coffee.

P.

[elessidil.livejournal.com]

What a wonderful description... I can practically taste the bean.

[kiramartin.livejournal.com]

Delicioso !! ( In Italian, that is!) I wish I had one now...I need a little jump start.