Because chocolate makes everything better

Some very nice people invited me over to their house for dinner last night.
It was their way of comforting me after I lost my grandmother last Thursday.
They're good friends. We all need friends like that.

One of them had a surprise for me.
He and I both love hot spicy things, and he made me some fudge.
Not just any kind of fudge, but jalapeno fudge.

Yes.
Chocolate fudge with pureed jalapeno peppers in it.

He didn't tell me what it was beforehand. I was sitting at the table, and someone put three squares of fudge in front of me, on a napkin.

Then they stood around and waited suspensefully for me to try it.

I suspected something might be worthy of caution, since this is one of the friends I'd shared a few of my ghost peppers with.
I nibbled a tiny bit of the fudge.
Sure enough, it was slightly peppery, but nothing anything close to ghost pepper strength. I learned later that it was just jalapenos. So not really very hot at all.
Still, pretty interesting.
In a few minutes, all three squares had been eaten.

He let me take an entire batch of it home. :)

I have great friends.
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