Les gens normaux mangent les oreilles des lapins en chocolat en premier.
Good evening, Kibitzers! It’s chocolate bunny season! When we were kids, my brother could not be given a chocolate bunny in his Easter basket, because he was what we later came to know as a “representational vegetarian”: he would not eat anything that was in the shape of an animal. Luckily, the local Museum of Chocolate Sculpture (“Nagel’s Candy Barn”, RIP) had many non-animal choices, mostly vehicles piloted, oddly, by tiny plastic Rat Finks.
On Sunday, I told this story in a comment in CUA, after I’d been shopping for my nephews’ Easter chocolate, but I will repeat it here because I like it so much:
The best chocolate store (maybe anywhere) is a little old shop in Garfield, NJ, that's been in business since the 1940s. It happens to be near my mother's parents' graves, so when I go there four-ish times a year with various flowers/Christmas greens, I stop for chocolate.
So, I was in there with an armload of stuff, perusing the giant table of fist-sized filled chocolate eggs, arranged in stacks in their little bunny-printed boxes, each with a hand-made index-card sign tacked up stating the filling flavor and the price.
Down the table was a smaller stack of the same boxes, with the sign, "EARS ONLY. PRICED AS MARKED". I had to check it out. They were boxes of the ears from assorted chocolate bunnies of many sizes and shapes. I had to buy a couple! I told the man at the counter that this was a hilarious idea. He smiled and said, "Well, everyone says the ears are the best part and they eat them first, so..."
Chocolate bunnies were first made in Germany in the 19th century, and were originally solid chocolate. They didn’t catch on in the US until the 20th century, and then World War II rationing was the mother of the invention of hollow chocolate bunnies. Hollow ones continue to be popular, because they’re less expensive (allowing larger ones to be bought) and easier to bite. Some 60 million bunnies are reportedly sold annually. Apparently the chocolate guy has it right, because 76% of Americans report eating the ears first.
When I was googling for this diary, I happened on this punked-out 1980s band called Chocolate Bunnies from Hell, so that obviously had to be the music here. I watched this video for a while, and I thought, Well… they’re actually sort of charming, in an odd way. Then I read some more and saw why: they’re Canadian. This is as rude as they can get. (The YouTube thread is full of Canadian people saying what a cool substitute teacher that guy was.)
I know not everyone is Christian (we’re not either, but we’re fine with secular Easter, wherein baskets of chocolate are distributed and a nice dinner is eaten). But I invite you all to answer the poll about your bunny-eating practices, if any, and then we’ll hear your story on any topic you like.
Hey, palantir’s fave player, Fabiano Caruana, won the chess tournament he told us about last night. USA! USA!
Also: HAPPY BIRTHDAY, CHRISLOVE!
Hope you enjoyed your day!!!
Kitchen Table Kibitzing is a community series for those who wish to share part of the evening around a virtual kitchen table with readers of Daily Kos who aren’t throwing pies at one another. Drop by and tell us about your weather, your garden, or what you cooked for supper. Newcomers may notice that many who post diaries and comments in this series already know one another to some degree, but we welcome guests at our kitchen table, and hope to make some new friends as well.
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I grabbed this screenshot overnight from the NY Daily News interactive page on the crisis in Puerto Rico. HERE is the live page, with more details and a “Take Action” button. The page is a very good link to share on social media.
PUERTO RICO and USVI DISASTER RELIEF DONATION LINKS
The Daily Kos community has its own project: Puerto Rico resident Bobby Neary (newpioneer) leads a small team dedicated to helping a specific rural elder who was left by the storms without power, water, a roof, or any belongings but a moldy mattress. If you like to see concrete results, this is the project for you. See newpioneer’s diaries for ways to help.
PLEASE FOLLOW Denise Oliver Velez and the SOS Puerto Rico group for the latest news about developments in Puerto Rico and the USVI.
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