(b) Is it considered bonafide to offer preparations made with chocolate to the dieties? If it is not intoxcan be offered.
Vedabase 688 664, dopis Paramahamsovi Swamimu od Malati dd, sekretarky SP

If chocolate is not an intoxicant, it can be offered to the Deities.
Vedabase 688 714, dopis Malati dd od Paramahamsy Swamiho

Our reply: As you know, stimulants of all kinds are out for Hare Krsna devotees. Tea contains caffeine, while chocolate and cocoa contain the stimulant the obromine as well.
Vedabase 749 251, BTG odpoved na dopis

You also insisted that intoxicants could have no spiritual value. And you refused to grant dispensations about what we could eat: "Krsna doesn't take any [chocolate], so we cannot offer it."
Vedabase 759 756, BTG Rupanuga d

Aside from Vedic standards, even by the standard of Swamiji's New York disciples the devotees in San Francisco were not very strict. Some continued going to the doughnut shop, eating food without offering it to Krsna, and eating forbidden things like chocolate and commercial ice cream. Some even indulged in after-kirtana cigarette breaks right outside the temple door. Some got initiated without knowing precisely what they had agreed to practice.
Vedabase 1 123 047, Srila Prabhupada Lilamrta 22

Having read so many books and looking for yogis, my concept of the devotees wasn't like the other people, who think the devotees have all escaped from a lunatic asylum in their pajamas. No, I was aware of the thing and that it was a pretty heavy one, much more austerities than other groups-like no coffee, chocolate, or tea.
Vedabase 1 124 399, Srila Prabhupada Lilamrta 29

Bhavananda, once a film-maker with Andy Warhol, gave up the synthetic world of materialism for a spiritual life of reading the Bhagavad-gita, Bible of the Krsna followers, and abstaining from tobacco, liquor, drugs and even chocolate.
Like women, theyre all intoxicants, he said.
Vedabase 1 182 309, Vaiyasaki d, Radha Damodara Vilasa 9

How are you going to cook? Anyone want Kelloggs Corn Flakes or ice cream? How about chocolate?
No, no. You cant offer these things to Krsna, Visnujana explains. We buy everything fresh, prepare it with love, and offer it with devotion to Krsna.
Vedabase 1 182 778-9 Vaiyasaki d, Radha Damodara Vilasa 12

A sincere statement written by Haridas. For us, there is always the lure of sex, milkshakes and chocolate bars, doughnuts, frivolous games, Bach and Mozart, rock and roll, poetry and novels, travel, pot, peyote and acid, and long, aimless talks over coffee or a glass of beer. Are these forever to be denied?
Vedabase 1 247 484, Hayagriva d, Hare Krishna Explosion 9

The second, not taking intoxicants, means eschewing even the milder anodynes such as tea and chocolate.
Vedabase 1 288 516, Ravindra Svarupa d, Cleaning House and Cleaning Hearts: Reform and Renewal in ISKCON, ICJ 2.1
