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Tomorrow, make sure you take a (chocolate) bath

Chocolate BathTomorrow is Valentine's Day, my least favorite holiday (if you can call a day created by greeting card companies a "holiday"). And it's not just because I don't have a honey to share it with. I've always hated it.

But I do know that you're supposed to take a bath or a shower that day. Well, you should take a bath or shower every day, but on Valentine's Day in particular you don't want to smell. Don't take an ordinary bath though, take a chocolate bath. A hot springs spa/resort in Japan offers such a bath. The water in the tub is mixed with cacao and fragrance, then liquid chocolate is poured over the people in the tub.

But I'm confused by the picture. If this is for Valentine's Day, I assume it's for couples. What's with all the people in the tub? Is this the family version?

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Tags: asia, cacao, chocolate, chocolate baths, couples, japan, romance, valentine's day

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Mary Sue

2-13-2007 @2:45PM Mary Sue said... Japanese baths are different from Western ones-- think more along the lines of hot springs.
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Melissa Fehr

2-14-2007 @5:44AM Melissa Fehr said... Umm, the Hotel Hershey in Hershey, PA has been offering chocolate baths in their range of chocolate-based spa treatments for decades now. Having grown up in the area, it's almost a rite of passage for women! http://www.hersheypa.com/accommodations/the_spa_at_hotel_hershey/spa_treatments/everything_chocolate.html
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Dr Electro

2-13-2007 @6:45PM Dr Electro said... No, no, no. They just don't understand. The chocolate belongs on the inside, not the outside!
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colleenrain

2-14-2007 @2:28AM colleenrain said... Japanese baths are either a family affair like this (Note the bathing suits) or segregated (sex) and nude. The food baths at this onsen are offered year round not just for Valentine's day, which btw is NOT for couples but for men only. Women have their own pallied version on March 14 and we hate it.
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