Have you heard of the Cotton Candy friend? You know who I'm talking about; it's fun while you're getting to know each other, but there is no lasting relationship built upon anything solid except maybe a flimsy stick. After a while, you realize it was just a lot of hot air and sugar and you stay friends with them on Facebook.
A Chocolate Friend takes more investment and time. As opposed to the Cotton Candy Friend, with the Chocolate Friend there is a solid relationship built up which might last many years, even a lifetime. As an example, a member of my family has had an over 60 year relationship with a Hershy's bar, with almonds please.
In Switzerland, the variety of chocolate is grotesque, which makes finding the right melt in your mouth experience very difficult indeed. Two years ago, my favorite was taken off the market. Strangely, it is still sold in Germany. So after a few months of personal chocolate hell, where the only treatment was to actually try many different kinds with things mixed in that should never be married with beans grown in a tropical region, I decided on a new favorite or to secretly go over the border for my fix.
If you have lived in different countries, you are sure to have a favorite chocolate and a favorite friend in every city, like a sailor has a wife in every port. And so it is with Chocolate Friends. When I first came to Switzerland, I had no friends, so I had to eat a lot of a certain sweet substance, dark please. By the way, chocolate friends are not hollow, but solid all the way through. Really good chocolate friends are hard to find and when you do discover them, you tend to horde them obsessively and not share.
I am thankful to my chocolate friends for getting me through the day...
Yours,
Mrs Chocodile
A Chocolate Friend takes more investment and time. As opposed to the Cotton Candy Friend, with the Chocolate Friend there is a solid relationship built up which might last many years, even a lifetime. As an example, a member of my family has had an over 60 year relationship with a Hershy's bar, with almonds please.
In Switzerland, the variety of chocolate is grotesque, which makes finding the right melt in your mouth experience very difficult indeed. Two years ago, my favorite was taken off the market. Strangely, it is still sold in Germany. So after a few months of personal chocolate hell, where the only treatment was to actually try many different kinds with things mixed in that should never be married with beans grown in a tropical region, I decided on a new favorite or to secretly go over the border for my fix.
If you have lived in different countries, you are sure to have a favorite chocolate and a favorite friend in every city, like a sailor has a wife in every port. And so it is with Chocolate Friends. When I first came to Switzerland, I had no friends, so I had to eat a lot of a certain sweet substance, dark please. By the way, chocolate friends are not hollow, but solid all the way through. Really good chocolate friends are hard to find and when you do discover them, you tend to horde them obsessively and not share.
I am thankful to my chocolate friends for getting me through the day...
Yours,
Mrs Chocodile
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Mrs. "Chocodile," you absolutely rock!
ReplyDeleteThanks, and a big hug for the woman who taught me to really appreciate hot fudge! What a wonderful comment!
ReplyDeleteYou make me dizzy sometimes. No, wait, that might the chocolate talking.
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