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Dear Reader,
Every year I buy them, but not until the sign says, "Buy-one-get-one-free." My intention is to give them all away, but as I'm putting them into my shopping cart, I know better. My husband and I will devour at least one box. Every year it's the same routine and last evening we did the deed. (I have to take the blame this time.)
It was nine o'clock, my husband and I were sitting together in bed watching one of our favorite shows, when I casually mentioned, "It's a good thing we don't have any chocolate in the house."
My husband looked my way and smiled, "We have a lot of chocolate in the house."
Innocently I replied, "We do?"
"Don't you remember those boxes of assorted chocolates you bought to give away with Christmas gift cards?"
Normally I would have continued the ruse, pretending I'd completely forgotten the six boxes of chocolates I'd purchased just four hours earlier, but why wait? We both knew what was going to happen, because same time, same place, every year, my husband and I rip into one of the buy-one-get-one-free boxes of fine chocolates that I bought to give to somebody else--caramels and chews are our favorites.
Why fight tradition, when tradition tastes so good. Come to think of it, I really should send the folks at the chocolate company a thank you card for their role in our holiday tradition, and for making it so easy to use their product. They even provide directions for how to eat their chocolates. A serving size is 2 pieces, and lucky for me those two pieces equal 2 percent of the daily fiber requirement my doctor lectured me about at my last checkup. So I absolutely must eat at least two pieces every time I open the box.
Besides fiber, what's inside each "handcrafted in small batches" morsel? Not to worry, this consumer-friendly company knows how busy we all are these days, so on the inside cover of the box, there's a handy map labeling each of the candies and their locations. No more wasting time "pinching" to see what's inside each piece like the good old days.
Aren't these new technological advances wonderful? And the chocolate box is even 100 percent recycled paperboard, so I'm eating green.
But the folks at the chocolate company did forget one thing--after the "BEST BEFORE" stamp, they forgot to put a date. So to be responsible consumers, my husband and I better finish off that box immediately, just in case those caramels, "handcrafted in small batches, using copper kettles and kitchen mixers for superior chocolate taste and quality" are about to expire.
Thanks for reading with me. It's so good to read with friends.
Suzanne Beecher
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