...when it's 9 p.m. and she's craving nothing but chocolate? There's no last resort McDonald's milkshake around the corner or the 24-hour grocery across town. Matter of fact, not a single place is open. Not that it would matter because she doesn't have a car and there are no street lights to foster even an evening stroll.
INNOVATION!
With no eggs or milk and only a tablespoon of margarine to her name, she scavenges the random ingredients to find a bit of cocoa powder, some sugar, and oatmeal. She melts that bit of butter for the adhesive effect between the oats and sugar and cocoa. Her mouth begins to water at the smell of heated margarine, holding true to her roots and affinity for Southern cuisine. (Paula Dean Special, y'all!) WAHhhLAh! No-bake, sweet, warm, chocolate oats to the rescue for the stranded girl. Then comes that old familiar feeling of over indulgence, but tonight she'll embrace it. She'll savor that sweet chocolate innovation for the mere novelty of flavor and then again to celebrate her successful experiment.
She sleeps with a sweet tooth satisfied and wakes with reason enough to make it to the grocery store at daylight.
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