Choc-O-Jet! The band was No Trend. (Junk Blog infraction-- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=huru6ufkt04 ) Actually, Choc-O-Jet, as I remembered was a device for dispensing a chocolate flavored beverage. It seemed like it was for hot cocoa but I remembered maybe for a chocolate drink like a YooHoo? Funny thing was, it was a brand I saw everywhere but never meant anything to me. Hell, it was only a few years back when the ice makers in hotels and bars started meaning something to me. I'm funny that way. Hoshizaki has pretty much run away with the hotel ice maker business. I'm still a fan of Manitowoc. Them's good ice makers.

Meanwhile, technically I got my earliest start on radio at a college station. WBWC. A friend had a radio show called "Evan Ford's Avant Garde Show"  (EFAGS for short) and my friend Pete and I, when we formed a band called "The Unedible Two" , would take our stuff up to his show, he'd interview us and we'd play our tune.  It was a tradition when my friend Bill and I had formed "Spudlok", and did the same thing. Record song that night, put it on Evan's show later in the night, then go to Dennys. Repeat. Perform the "old Jewish stars at a restaurant when in walks Gumby" sketch from SNL over burgers and "Decadence" cake. Good Times. Good Times.  I sorta had my foot in the door and then started helping the guy who said "Wait, WBWC signs on at 10am? Why is there no morning show?" Therefore I was on my way to radio obscurity.  Meanwhile "Choc-O-Jet" by No Trend was one of the songs Evan played on one of the tapes I made. How's that for obscure. I remember the tune plain as day.

So what the hell? It's Thanksgiving 2015 and I must have the Turkey DT's. Actually, the above object is a nice tin, given to me by someone that had gone to Germany and brought back like $100 worth of these. Because it's in a tin, and I like them tins, I've kept it. Nothing in it, but what was in it was a great help to me. Made in Germany. Kraftwerk. Um... Kraftwerk. Um... ahh.. VOLKSWAGEN.  Daka Daka in your German car? SCHO-KA-KOLA!

Well well. They can't sell this in America. It's a dark chocolate but it has caffeine added. Lots of caffeine. Of course, you look on the 'Zon and you can buy a tin for $7, so have a Hershey bar and a Starbuxx coffee and you'll get the same thrill and save some change. Of course, to say Hershey's is as good as the flavor of this chocolate would be to say "Bud tastes the same as Paulaner." Um, German purity law? Strike 17 for Bud. "Excuse me Klaus Roeder, where is the men's room?" "Eeet ees de vun mit Bud un ze door" 

My friend gave this too me when I was working in morning radio and yet, using my weekends to drive from Toledo to Memphis, TN to party with friends I had met on the net. I'd have to leave at 4PM Memphis time to get home for a 5am start time at the radio station. Needless to say, many a Dew and drumming acrobatics with the window down would keep me awake for the ride home. I was younger. I could drive 11 hours and still be ready to rage. Um, well,  I would fake that I was ready to rage. I didn't drink coffee back then, so I had the next best thing. A slice of this dark chocolate.

Yeah, I wasn't getting that much of an effect from it, but I considered it a real help those times when I was less than awake. By the time the tin was done, that was about the time I moved to Louisville and cut 6 hours out of my trip. Nuff said. I suppose they don't want this sold in America because of the protests about it being marketed for kids. They are getting a hard time about caffeine in peanut butter. They had a hard time with it being in cheap fruity beer-booze. Peeps can OD on caffeine and die from it. Boy, it should be ILLEGAL because WHAT ABOUT THE CHILDREN? (Stossell Sux)  -Ric