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"How do you make chocolate? You take dark chocolate, you mix it with white milk, and it becomes a delicious drink. That is the chocolate I am talking about," he said. "New Orleans was a chocolate city before Katrina. It is going to be a chocolate city after. How is that divisive? It is white and black working together, coming together and making something special."

~new orleans mayor Nagin (from cnn)

ah, yes. The old, ‘mix anything with chocolate and you get chocolate’ multiplicative property of chocolate. But is he suggesting that the minority mint population doesn’t work as hard as the white and black? If so this error is egregious indeed, because as anyone who has dined at the upscale olive garden knows, those after supper mints look chocolate. But, oh, the taste is something altogether different and magical.