Last month’s Halloween pillowcases are brimming* with one of North America’s favourite products, at considerable social cost. It’s hard to find fair trade chocolate in the miniature bar form, but look what I found to eat for Christmas time!
I bought this fair trade advent calendar from Ten Thousand Villages in mid-October and if you can believe it, all 24 chocolates are still intact–that is, until I carry out the obligatory taste test I’m about to perform just for you! I have prepared my palate with a judiciously curated assembly of coffee, soy egg nog** and two bran muffins. Give me ten seconds.
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When December 1 arrives, my husband will open this tiny cardboard window and say, Where is the chocolate, and I will say, I have an obligation to my readers, whereupon he will close his mouth, turn around and walk resignedly into his office to shoot three-pointers into the miniature basketball hoop attached to the door.
*Okay, it’s been two weeks since Halloween, so probably not brimming. Unless you’re like my husband, who liked to take a careful inventory of his Halloween candy, make trades, ration his resources and generally act like the economist (his schoolmates might have used another term of reference) he is. He’s lucky he’s cute.
**This is very gross.
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