Question #6 - "Why do we breathe air? Why could we not breathe chocolate or something else fun?"

Question from Pedro is Kentucky: "Why do we breathe air? Why could we not breathe chocolate or something else fun?"

This is a question that has been debated for a long time. I mean, when walking down the street in any large city in the world, the first thing that pops in your mind as you cough is "why can't I breathe chocolate or something else fun?"

The task to answer this question is daunting to say the least, but here is my attempt:

1. Evolution - We are well on the way to evolving a way to aspirate things other than Air. All we need is for a large group of our poplulation to die off trying to breath chocolate and after a million years --- ZAMO!!!--- Air will be a thing of the past.

2. One thing that might also be the reason we cannot breathe chocolate is due the fact that it is an aphrodisiac. Could you imagine a bunch of love crazed people running around the planet all the time? In the words of Brillat-Savarin,Jean Anthelme:

La truffe n'est point un aphrodisiaque positif; mais elle peut, en certaines occasions, rendre les femmes plus tendres et les hommes plus aimables.

3. As to why we cannot breathe something else, just remember that there is a lot of air, and not so much of everything else. The only subsitute for that is bull crap... which seems to be the only renewable energy that is always in abundance.

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