“Chris Martin and the Dalai Lama walked into a chocolate shop…” might sound like the beginning of a joke, but it turns out the two men have more in common than just public adulation, even if the Coldplay lead singer’s comes from 14-year-old girls while the religious leader is stuck with Richard Gere. It turns out they both like chocolate. A new book by a friend of the Dalai Lama, The Wisdom of Forgiveness: Intimate Conversations and Journeys, says the living god secretly eats chocolate chip cookies in the evening when most Buddhists are supposed to be fasting. Meanwhile, in Rolling Stone, Martin says, “Personally, weed really does nothing for me. Y’know, chocolate does things for me that it doesn’t do for anyone else.”