"Chocolate won't let you down"

Of course, most are familiar with the feeling of putting a delicious piece of chocolate in ones mouth. Even the mere idea of that sweet, smooth treat melting on one's tongue sends one a wave of warmth. Chocolate is a means by which humans express love for each other, as they send it packaged as gifts for Christmas or Valentine's Day. The Hershey's Kiss, meiji Meltykiss, and "love" from Dove each equate chocolate with a form of affection, as if one could pucker their lips, wrap it in some pretty packaging, and save it for a loved one.

Yet, this seemingly universal medium for love and affection no longer applies when we take a step outside of our human perspective. What other creature would savor a few seconds of chocolate in the way that humans do? Sure, many can eat chocolate, but such creatures eat it with neither the luxury nor the passion that humans have when eating chocolate. Chocolate could only be a source of nutrients. Animals eat what they need to survive, so their purpose of chocolate is reduced to nourishment to function. In simplifying chocolate as food, the entire connotation of chocolate is lost. No longer is there the excitement of receiving a gift out of want instead of need. The "kiss" that chocolate transfers begins to seems more silly than romantic. Every sense of interpersonal relationship, care, and affection disappears once the human aspect is taken away. Therefore, the value of chocolate must be a creation of humans; what becomes universal in chocolate (the food itself) then no longer matters to humans. It is not chocolate that humans believe to be universal, but rather the idea of chocolate.