I went to visit my favorite chocolate shoppe last week. It’s called Chocolate du Monde, and the shop owners are sweet and kind, and are always willing to sell a girl some chocolate. The shoppe has chocolate colored walls and a gorgeous case of chocolates coming from far away lands famous for chocolate-making like Belgium.
My favorite chocolatier displayed is Joseph Schmidt. Their truffles are absolutely amazing and cause my eyes to roll back in my head (but only for a bit) after I take a bite. They make chocolate that you can taste down to your toes.
I wanted to buy some Joseph Schmidt mosaics and the shoppe owner broke the news to me that Joseph Schmidt had been bought out by Hershey’s. [sound of record scratching—errrrwwwhh] I was devastated. Joseph Schmidt and I have only had about five years together. That hasn’t been long enough. The shop owner tried to reassure me by saying Hershey’s wasn’t changing the recipes, but they had decided to ditch the mosaics. This is almost worse than Landry’s buying the Grotto, and then taking my favorite dishes off the menu.
Joseph Schmidt. I’ll miss you. [Attention all potential suitors—you might need to quickly order boxes in advance for my birthday to try to capture any remaining boxes of mosaics.] We had some good times. You can see I’ve enjoyed our relationship, but maybe if you leave, then my hips can stop lying about the size jeans they wear.
1 comments:
Ulovebeth said...
After I researched a little more, I found out Hershey's bought Schmidt awhile back. No wonder the chocolates hadn't tasted as good. I tried to convince myself it was the cold case, or maybe an old batch, not wanting to admit that J.S. and I were over.