The things I do for my friends.
Cacao production has been hard hit this past year by weather, crops haven’t been as large, and the demand has increased. Now comes the news that the US Chocolate Manufacturers Association has petitioned the US Food and Drug Industry to change the definitions and requirements for chocolate. They want to allow the artificially-flavored stuff (worse than Hershey or other US bulk commercial chocolates) to be marketed as ‘chocolate’.
My former housemate’s response, when he asked me to bring back chocolate from Canada, is a tiny bit more understandable now.
About eight years ago, I went on a vacation to Canada. I’d been there about four months before, accompanied by my then-housemate. While there, we’d discovered a chocolatier; and upon hearing of my upcoming trip, my housemate made up a list of chocolates that he wanted me to buy for him — for dispensing to friends and co-workers. I took his list, packed my bags, and got on the plane to British Columbia. I went to the chocolatier on my last day there, literally as I was taking the bus to the airport. The list was…substantial. I was toting approximately 8 kilos of chocolate, double-bagged…and the heavy duty plastic bags were not going to make it back to the US. I bought another duffel from the airport shop and packed it full of chocolate. When I went through customs, I had to unpack the duffel, show them the chocolate, and pack it all up again. When I finally arrived back home, there were no parking spaces close to our apartment…just one at the other corner of the complex. I parked, got a grip on my luggage (including the 8 kilos of chocolate), and slowly made my way across the parking lot. I unloaded at the foot of the steps leading up to the second-story apartment, trudged up the stairs, and when my housemate answered the door I dully said, “Go get your chocolate.“ He was shocked when he realized how much he’d asked me to bring…and that I’d brought it all!!
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