"To me, hollow chocolate tastes different than solid," says AL with a shrug. "It's also easier to start eating when you don't have to gnaw through a solid mass of chocolate. Just nom and done." She chuckles.

"Yeah, the alter ego's husband and mother like those, too. I'll eat 'em but sometimes they're too sweet." She assumes this will get a shocked reaction, kidding or otherwise, and so pauses just in case.