Almond Joy?

I have been craving lots and lots of chocolate lately...what's new. I have been sick of eating the same chocolate, so I thought I would experiment. I got hooked on Lindt's - Chocolate with Chiles & Cherries; very, very good...sweet with a nice heat. I have been going through a bar about every 2 days, and had to go to the store on Saturday to pick up another. I started getting these tummy aches and thought it was just because the time of the month.

I was watching Alias (Season 3 disk 4) last night and, all of a sudden, it occurred to me that I was crunching on something and did not recognize the flavor...so I looked down at the wrapper and panic set in as I read the name of the chocolate I had been eating. Cherries with ... Almonds!!!! (The wrapper was identical to the Cherries & Chilies.) I never had an Almond before so it made sense that I did not understand what I was eating. Usually when I eat a nut my throat starts to swell up, and all kinds of other nastiness happens: like the time I ate some pesto, (which I loved) but pesto is made with pine nuts, and swelled up like Odo from Deep Space Nine; or the time I ate a walnut in a chocolate chip cookie...the stomach ache was so bad that I compare it to being in labor. European chocolatiers like to put hazelnuts in their chocolate and I wish I did not have such a severe reaction, it is very similar to what happens to me if I come in contact with a peanut but not as bad.

I had eaten half the chocolate bar and just sat there on the couch waiting for catastrophe to hit, but then I realized that is why I had been feeling like a seagull who had eaten an antacid. All I was going to have was a slightly painful tummy ache...no big deal.
I finally was able to taste an almond and not have to depend on somebody trying to describe the taste to me. I still have not had cashews, macadamia nuts, brazil nuts or pecans. Sometimes you feel like a nut, sometimes you don't. Almond joy has nuts...Mounds don't:P