@starkatt i feel like sushi is such a broad category that there's probably *something* in it that fits with either chocolate or barbecue sauce, but you're right, I doubt either of those would be good additions to common types of sushi

@noiob okay but are we talking memphis-style or carolina-style or alabama white style or

'cause i definitely agree that carolina-style barbecue is not very good, but there are so many other types

@Felthry I'm European

@noiob there are *so many* kinds of barbecue sauce, in any case, and some of them are *extremely* different from each other

like, most types are variants of memphis-style (this is proooobably what you would get in europe?) but carolina-style and alabama white are *completely* different sauces

@Felthry if it's more than one sauce then that's cheating

@noiob they're all used for the same type of thing, and they generally have similar ingredients but maybe one will add mayonnaise or another will have a lot more vinegar or something

@Felthry yeah I'm looking at recipes and I just don't think liquid smoke and sugar is a winning combo

and mayonnaise is good on its own

@noiob your taste in sauces is the polar opposite of ours, we can't stand mayonnaise

@monorail hmm.

I shall reserve judgment until i can try chocolate + watermelon

@dodec Hmm. Honestly, I could see a little bit of barbecue mixed into the broth being a viable option for that, actually.

@Felthry

Viable maybe, but would it improve it?

@dodec Well, we'd have to try to know for sure!

@Felthry

Wait, I think I've got it. Start with the richest messiest sauce-laden barbecue anything that you can picture. Chocolate would not improve that. And more barbecue sauce would leave it basically unchanged.

@dodec Ah, I think you've found it! I suppose "a chocolate bar" would also be a viable option, at least if you pick one that is already your preferred level of darkness.

Unless you like barbecue sauce on chocolate bars, which is kind of weird but okay.

@dodec though now i'm thinking about adding a small amount of cocoa to barbecue sauce, maybe some sort of barbecue mole....

@dodec this might be a terrible idea but now i want to try it

like, pulled pork with a combination of mole and memphis-style barbecue sauce

@Felthry @dodec

Sounds delicious!

@Aradia Add chocolate until there's about twenty times more chocolate than lutefisk and maybe you can tolerate it.

@Felthry That's still the equivalent of one teaspoon of sewage in a barrel of wine. Think I'll pass :)

(Speaking of things that contain 20x more chocolate than other ingredients, you should try my brownies sometime. @starkatt and @Kyresti can attest.)

@Aradia @starkatt @Kyresti oh goodness now i want to

@CoronaCoreanici "pasta" in general you could probably claim that mac and cheese with a bit of barbecue sauce is pretty good

pho would probably not be improved by either of those though yes

this turned out to be less of a challenge than i'd thought

@CoronaCoreanici (we get mac and cheese as a side at barbecue places a lot, combining it with pulled pork and barbecue sauce is Pretty Good Actually)

@CoronaCoreanici True, that probably wouldn't be great with barbecue or chocolate.

...now i'm imagining chocolate-coated spaghetti. why am i thinking about this this is awful

@CoronaCoreanici this is true.

@Tathar @Felthry chocolate orange is amazing, at least, you can buy orange-sized-and-flavored chocolates & they make great gifts

@Lioness @Felthry

Oh, hmm.

@Felthry

Oh! Grilled cheese.