2011-02-15&02-17 情人节巧克力PK

So Dan and Ron are on pins and needles because the countdown to Valentine’s Day is on.

Cannot wait.

You’ve only got one more day to find the perfect way to express your love for your valentine.

What about me? I get love...

Hopefully, you’ll be getting lots of chocolates, (You’ll get a lot of love.) because that’s the best way for many women to have love expressed (That’s right.) So we put them to the test. Do you need spend big bucks¹ for high-end stuff or will a more modest brand do the treat. To find the answer, I set out on a chocolate taste test, now you guys taste yourself.

We’re gonna taste, (yes) alright, sweet! We’re on it.

What do you think? I…

Diamonds may be a girl's best friend, but chocolate, it may just be her secret lover.

“I love dark chocolate.”

Rich, decadent², gooey, and addictive³. Ever notice that chocolate commercials always seem to feature women eating it alone?

“It's a moment of my own delicious.”

And on one of the biggest chocolate days of them all, Valentine’s Day, our taste for coco tends to get much more expensive. And specialty⁴ chocolatiers know it, offering a staggering array of high-end sweetness. We took two popular brands, high-end Godiva and the much cheaper Hershey’s Bliss⁵, and pitted them against each other in a blind but unscientific taste test on the streets of New York.

These Godiva pieces, they cost almost $1 a piece.

The Hershey’s, less than 15 cents.

First up, the milk chocolate roll down.

Are you all chocolate lovers? Go try this one.

You wanna try it?

It's good, yeah.

You like it? Now try the other milk chocolate.

Oh, you like both Hershey’s.

Tell my husband I want Godiva

Only Godiva now.

It seems on this front nearly half chose Godiva, but how about for their dark chocolates?

Hershey’s the second.

Second.

They're the same.

I think I'll try that one.

You're a Hershey guy.

I have no idea.

Brian, you’re a Hershey’s man.

The much cheaper Hershey’s dark chocolates melted away the competition by nearly the same margin⁶, the chocolate wars, in our test, are tie. So what are our customers getting when they spend more? To find out, we went to Mr. Chocolate himself, Jacques Torres, whose delicate bonbons⁷ often come with a hefty price tag.

What's the difference between buying this and spending $36 on this and walking into a grocery store and getting any sort of generic⁸ brand of holiday chocolates?

Other than the price?

Other than the price, yes, obviously.

Ok. Basically, we work very hard on the concentration of flavor, we don't use any essential oil or flavoring. We use only the real thing. All the packaging, all the presentation.

Are you apologizing or are you expressing your love, or a little bit of both?

No. Well, I have a lot of women in my life.

So while our taste test produced mixed results, a lot of people seem to agree--to keep the Misses happy, buy the expensive stuff.

Anybody who says, you know, it's a waste of money to go and spend a lot on these chocolates.

I think that your honey would be happier if you give something nice. Don't buy fake diamonds, buy real diamonds, don't buy fake chocolates, buy real chocolates. You know, that's basically the deal here.

It’s definitely the key of picking high-end Jacques chocolates. So the real chocolates.

Wow.

Dan, eat your heart out.

Well, Dan has been eating his heart out along with Jessie, and now it’s Ron’s turn to give the taste test, make a decision, what do you think?

Ron, is that you want a funnel⁹ for that chocolate?

No. no.

There’s a clear winner…

Hershey’s the milk chocolate.

I got the evil line.

I got the evil line.

The B and the B are the high-price chocolates, I would say.

Really?

This is a high-price?

That’s what I’m saying…

I agree.

The A is the high-price.

One for two.

This is in the B?

The B, yes, B from…

I’m correct. OK. Well, you know they are all good. They are all good.

It’s true.

You want some?

Sure.

Is it cheating for me to have Godiva in my pocket?

You just seem to fell on it now?

I actually have to say I tried the milk chocolate and I like the cheaper one better.

Yeah, I think a lot of people did, I think the majority preferred the expensive dark chocolate.

There you have it.

Now you know.

The results of ABC news investigation¹⁰.

1 bucks   

n.雄鹿( buck的名词复数 )；钱；（英国十九世纪初的）花花公子；（用于某些表达方式）责任v.（马等）猛然弓背跃起( buck的第三人称单数 )；抵制；猛然震荡；马等尥起后蹄跳跃

参考例句：

• They cost ten bucks. 这些值十元钱。
• They are hunting for bucks. 他们正在猎雄兔。 来自《简明英汉词典》

2 decadent   

adj.颓废的，衰落的，堕落的

参考例句：

• Don't let decadent ideas eat into yourselves.别让颓废的思想侵蚀你们。
• This song was once banned, because it was regarded as decadent.这首歌曾经被认定为是靡靡之音而被禁止播放。

3 addictive   

adj.(吸毒等)使成瘾的，成为习惯的

参考例句：

• The problem with video game is that they're addictive.电子游戏机的问题在于它们会使人上瘾。
• Cigarettes are highly addictive.香烟很容易使人上瘾。

4 specialty   

n.(speciality)特性，特质；专业，专长

参考例句：

• Shell carvings are a specialty of the town.贝雕是该城的特产。
• His specialty is English literature.他的专业是英国文学。

5 bliss   

n.狂喜，福佑，天赐的福

参考例句：

• It's sheer bliss to be able to spend the day in bed.整天都可以躺在床上真是幸福。
• He's in bliss that he's won the Nobel Prize.他非常高兴，因为获得了诺贝尔奖金。

6 margin   

n.页边空白；差额；余地，余裕；边，边缘

参考例句：

• We allowed a margin of 20 minutes in catching the train.我们有20分钟的余地赶火车。
• The village is situated at the margin of a forest.村子位于森林的边缘。

7 bonbons   

n.小糖果( bonbon的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• For St. Valentine's Day, Mother received a heart-shaped box of delicious bonbons. 情人节的时候，母亲收到一份心形盒装的美味棒棒糖。 来自互联网
• On the first floor is a pretty café offering take-away bonbons in teeny paper handbags. 博物馆底层是一家漂亮的咖啡厅，提供可以外带的糖果，它们都用精小的纸制手袋包装。 来自互联网

8 generic   

adj.一般的，普通的，共有的

参考例句：

• I usually buy generic clothes instead of name brands.我通常买普通的衣服，不买名牌。
• The generic woman appears to have an extraordinary faculty for swallowing the individual.一般妇女在婚后似乎有特别突出的抑制个性的能力。

9 funnel   

n.漏斗；烟囱；v.汇集

参考例句：

• He poured the petrol into the car through a funnel.他用一个漏斗把汽油灌入汽车。
• I like the ship with a yellow funnel.我喜欢那条有黄烟囱的船。

10 investigation   

n.调查，调查研究

参考例句：

• In an investigation,a new fact became known, which told against him.在调查中新发现了一件对他不利的事实。
• He drew the conclusion by building on his own investigation.他根据自己的调查研究作出结论。