Ah Hah! It's all a ruse...
The chocolate here is all FAKE! I knew I smelled a mustached rat! Everywhere I go, whatever I do, my second brain is looking for chocolate -- eyes darting, sideways glances -- in the stores, on the bus, in the street, under udders. Then -- donkey whispers, an occasional lead, crazed bloodshot eyes!, a rise of excitement, a frenzied chomp into ... fake chocolate, withdrawal seizures, and so on.
The chocolate here is fool's gold. It says chocolate, kind of smells like chocolate, even says chocolate or chocolate cake, but my taste buds don't lie. Last night we learned from our neighbors that the chocolate here, even the bars made by multinationals such as Cadbury (tell me if you know otherwise), has much less or even no cocoa butter; instead some other villainous agent is used for it to hold its form and likely because it's cheaper, and I'm sure the cocoa content is miniscule to boot. I should have known, as the chocolate bars are not all melted into sad puddles as they should be ... if they were really chocolate.
PS - It's okay if you tell us about real chocolate. There will be no jealousy or anything. Our friend Jessica wrote to me about yummy chocolate brought to her by European colleagues at work, and honestly I am happy for her and imagine how good it must taste.
*PPS - This is not a hint for all to send packages of chocolate. It would all melt by the time we receive it, if pork pie customs agents do not open the box and eat it as they did with our neighbors' packages.
The chocolate here is all FAKE! I knew I smelled a mustached rat! Everywhere I go, whatever I do, my second brain is looking for chocolate -- eyes darting, sideways glances -- in the stores, on the bus, in the street, under udders. Then -- donkey whispers, an occasional lead, crazed bloodshot eyes!, a rise of excitement, a frenzied chomp into ... fake chocolate, withdrawal seizures, and so on.
The chocolate here is fool's gold. It says chocolate, kind of smells like chocolate, even says chocolate or chocolate cake, but my taste buds don't lie. Last night we learned from our neighbors that the chocolate here, even the bars made by multinationals such as Cadbury (tell me if you know otherwise), has much less or even no cocoa butter; instead some other villainous agent is used for it to hold its form and likely because it's cheaper, and I'm sure the cocoa content is miniscule to boot. I should have known, as the chocolate bars are not all melted into sad puddles as they should be ... if they were really chocolate.
PS - It's okay if you tell us about real chocolate. There will be no jealousy or anything. Our friend Jessica wrote to me about yummy chocolate brought to her by European colleagues at work, and honestly I am happy for her and imagine how good it must taste.
*PPS - This is not a hint for all to send packages of chocolate. It would all melt by the time we receive it, if pork pie customs agents do not open the box and eat it as they did with our neighbors' packages.
posted by Alex and Jeeyung at 7:10 PM
1 Comments:
this reminds me of 1984--but aside from the fake chocolate, I image that India must be much less Orwellian than present day America.
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