So Ray Nagin says New Orleans should be rebuilt as a chocolate city and will be a chocolate city. I can't fault him for that. I love chocolate.  But if N.O. is to be chocolate, would anyone be upset if I were to suggest that it be not just any old chocolate but a rich dark chocolate, you know with only racially pure chocolate beans? You know, the good stuff, made from fresh chocolate beans.

Much of the chocolate I see walking the streets looks like a light milk chocolate, maybe even a chocolate vanilla swirl and isn't strong and fullbodied like the darkest dark chocolate.  A pure chocolate New Orleans could be made pure and kept pure by some sort of a Chocolate Cleaning Club, or a CCC for short. The Chocolateers of the CCC could ride in the daylight wearing some sort of dark robes, maybe nice headdress as well, and strike fear into any lighter impurities that might wander in and be found in the chocolate from time to time.

Unfortunately for Nagin, there'd be no place for people of, dare I say it, a neopolitan heritage like himself in the reborn Big Eboneasy. But I'm sure some peppermint mocha town like Atlanta or a moosetracks burg like Seattle would welcome him.

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