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Chocolate World
Topic Started: Mar 1 2010, 06:56 PM (1,128 Views)
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I... was just watching Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and I had this idea.
A world in which the main species is a type of fungus/plant or something similar, that covered the ground and the rocks, and that was brown-colored and sweet. It would be like a secondary layer in the planet, consisting in a colonial-type of life, but that it was coincidentialy similar to chocolate in the physical properties.
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Hm. Not too plausible, but interesting nonetheless.
Maybe the "chocolate" would be some sort of brownish sweet-tasting algae?
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Something like that
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It probably wouldn't be chemically similar to chocolate, though.
Wonder if it would end up making the algae-feeding animals taste sweet?
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Oh man I just got his with a creature idea

It'd be like this beautiful, feathery-looking butterfly type thing but the wings would be chemically similar to sugar crystals and be totally lightweight andaskljdfaaaaaargh.

I'm just seeing giant rock-candy type formations.
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Are you plausible?

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It probably wouldn't be chemically similar to chocolate, though.
But for the sake of this idea, it is possible.
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It doesn't have to actually be chocolate either, I don't think. It could be something unrelated with chemical components that are not only edible, but trigger the eater's mind to think, "Hey, that's chocolate!"
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Well taste won't be that hard, it'll be texture. Sounds more like a chocolatey slime to me.

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Candy Mountain.
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I think the idea of a brown, sweet-tasting fungus/plant growing everywhere like moss is more plausbile than having real chocolate everywhere (how would that even be possible? Cacao plants growing in rivers of milk, made by mammal-analogues?)
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I think it'd just be a naturally occouring algae slime that is similar to chocolate, at least, enough to taste like it.
It'd coat everything, it's be high in sugars and proteins, everything would eat it.

Mammalian analogues would have chocolate milk.

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No. Perhaps you could get stuff that looks like chocolate, and perhaps has a sweet taste, but there's a high potential that it'll kill you (as per the discussion in another thread). It could be full of cyanide for all you know.

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Hmm... Chocolate Mountain.

I think that if the chocolate cover also had a sweet taste, most animals would be seeking more sugar than actual plants. Instead of hervivores, "chocolatevores" would exist. The chocolate fungus, by the other hand, would probably reproduce just like Earth flowers. The animals come, eat the sugar, and then move to other place to eat more sugar, and they accidentally move the fungus' spore in order to reproduce.
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Wait, wouldn't this chocolate planet automatically lose its appeal? The stuff covers the ground; there are many not-tasty things that end up on the ground.
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