Yes, I'm already getting my shopping
list up to date.
I know it's still two and a half months
before we head to Germany, but when you have a few free seconds, like
I did during the rain Sunday afternoon, I like to work ahead a little, just in case the
run up to the actually trip is hectic (and spoiler alert—it's
almost ALWAYS hectic). Loraine's actually better at it than am I;
she has this pre-trip checklist, and one of the items on it is
“shopping list”, where we’re supposed to write down all the
kinds of chocolate we need to look for and pick up. If we’re going
to France or to Belgium (especially Belgium), this is very important,
because those two countries have chocolate to which I’m addicted.
But Germany?
Not so much.
Don’t get me wrong; Germany does have
good chocolate. But it’s not chocolate to which I’m addicted.
For whatever reason, I don’t find Ritter or Milka chocolate quite
as essential to my life as Cote D’Or or Galler. So whenever we go
to Germany I don’t have a chocolate “list”, I just pick up
whatever I find interesting (as the one year that Milka had a white
chocolate/green tea/lime bar, or that blueberry/lavender bar about
which I was enthusing last week) and then sample it along the way.
But when I go to Germany, there’s one
permanent thing on my list—
This may be the single greatest cereal
on the face of the planet. I know; I babble a lot about how good
French cereals can be, but this one tops them all. It’s Koln’s
Schoko/Kirsch Muesli; it has dried cherries and shaved bits of dark
chocolate tossed in with oatmeal-like flakes of oat, and it all
topped with little round pieces of chocolate cereal. It may sound
weird, but the taste is so sublime—but then, anything with real
cherries and dark chocolate would be sublime—that it’s something
you could eat an entire box of in one sitting. I wouldn’t
recommend it; it’s so rich that after a couple of servings your
stomach wants to explode. Sure it may be the best tasting stomach
explosion ever, but it would still be a stomach explosion.
However, the cereal’s so good it may
be worth it.
So that’s the one & only thing on
my list to make sure I bring home. I’ll actually get a box and
munch on it while we’re over there; the other box (or two, or
three) will come home with me to enjoy as long as the cereal—or my
stomach—holds out.
Twelve weeks and one day before I'll
have a chance to pick it up!
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