Chocolate

Has anyone noticed the variety of dark chocolate bars, pieces, flavors that have recently flooded the market? I am not complaining every since I was a small child, dark chocolate was my first choice if I had one. I remember those mixed bags my parents use to get a Halloween that had four different flavors of mini Hershey chocolate bars crispy, mr. goodbar, milk chocolate, and special dark chocolate. I would dump out the bag on the kitchen table and pick out all the special dark chocolate and hide it in a bedroom drawer. Yes, I admit it, as a child I horded dark chocolate. Yet now as adults we have many more dark chocolate choices like dark chocolate with marzipan, dark chocolate with cranberries, raspberries, almonds, or macadamia nuts, dark chocolate m&ms, dark chocolate with vanilla creme brulee, dark chocolate with south sea coconut, 70% dark cocoa, 90% cocoa, or semi sweet. So many choices so few free calories to indulge. Maybe if I stopped eating lunch....thought taken surveyed and will think on it. This is all fine and dandy, I love chocolate, but I ask one question? Why now? If you ask me it is a marketing, some freelance scientist was quoted saying that dark chocolate contains more antioxidants that are good for human beings hearts, lungs, skin and might help fight cancer so the chocolate producers jumped on the band wagon. I think they even make a milk chocolate bar with added antioxidants now. Would you drink oil, jet fuel, propyl gallate, waxes, greases and hydraulic fluid if you knew they had added antioxidants? I am just curious should someone explain to the sheeple that pomegranates, tomatoes, green tea, carrots, oranges, strawberry, blackberries, blueberries, oregano and soy beans?And guess what they are sweet and don't cause weight gain.