Readers recommend: songs about chocolate – results

An RR a day helps you work, rest and playChocolate makes for a rich metaphor. It's sweet, it melts, it's velvety and smooth – it's the most sexual of sweet stuffs. Its colour, too, lends it resonance – though only in the hands of black artists. So while Parliament's George Clinton can write a song called Chocolate City – one of the nicknames of Washington DC – to express his pride in African-American achievement, white artists are best advised to steer clear of that particular analogy.Th...

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