13/01/2017 (afternoon) It hails now. I tool a green tea break with a piece of black chocolate.
I ate 1 a chocolate bar per day, when I was a primary school kid. Because my father won several paper bags of seets as a prize of PACHINKO and he gave me all of them.
My daughter Clare is a big eater and she was accustomed to eat two bars of chocolate per day when she was in Hachioji. She also made various sweets made of chocolate, like chocolate cream maffins, choco-chip cookies, chocolate sponge cakes, etc. Cooking is easy for her. She can cook much better than my DoDoMerdic sister YUKARI even at her the 6th grade of her primary school.
However, she is now absorbed in Basketball, so has no time to cooking, including confectionery making.
I can recognize the difference of tasts of chocolate of each company. However, DoDoMerdas just count the brand, not the taste.
Thus, once in a year, just before Valentine's Day, the chocolates of renoun brand companies in the world are bought by DoDoMerdas. They prefer Belgian GODIVA rather than other companies.
GODIVA's chocolate is not so bad, rather, delicious, I agree. however, it's expensive, considerably. I know a lot of different delicious chocolate makers in the world.
Meiji and Morinaga, popular chocolate companies in Japan produce tasty chocolate at rational price. Lotte and Fujiya is a bit inferior to these ones, however, not bad. Especially, "Guana" of Lotte is sold in the cheapest price so Clare were accustomed to buy sevral bars as the ingredients for her sweets.
In Brazil, I visited Gramado, a turistic village in Rio Grande do Sul. There are lots of cultures influenced by western europe, because there live many descendants of the region.
There are several big factories of chocolate, mainly run by Bergian descendents.
I visited one of them, made my own chocolate bar, took a rest drinking hot chocolate, bought animal shaped chocolates, thinking of my kids. There I could sample each of them.
When I was young, at the department stores, in the shops of confectionary, I could taste various sweets, Japanese and western ones, abundantly even in Japan.
However, when I visited various department stores in the center of Tokyo last year, the situation was totally different. Only several exceptional stores provided me samples. Some of clerks hided their samples, when I passed in front of them, in order to avoid my tasting.
Thus, I recognized that economic situation was so messy in Japan.
I was one of the few cliants there, even though, they didn't want to be consumed their precious sample by me. "How stingy they are! They are just like Scrooge in Christmas Carrol by Dickens", I thought.
This year, also here comes Valentine's Day. DoDoMerdic girls would dash to buy luxurious Belgian chocolates to captivate her targeted DoDoMerdic counterparts.
If male DoDoMerdas accept the girls, they would give some precious gifts, like a jewel, one night in a suit room in a gorgeous hotel, etc. to them on 14, March, one month after the Valentine's Day. This day is called "White Day". Reason, unknown.
However, pupils in schools also enjoy the events. They exchange their sweets, many of which are made by themselves, indifferent from their sex, and do the same thing also on "White Day".
Japanese schools are likely to prohibit to bring sweets and only these two days, even strict teachers, reluctantly, allow them to bring confectionary from their house.
I've heard that two thirds of chocolate are consumed only the period in Japan. Maybe, DoDoMerdas are not chocolate eaters, usually. Bergian consume lots of chocolates as usual all the year round.
Riddle: What's the material that DoDoMerdas eat as usual?
Hint:Begin with "M" and end with "K". Your knowledge on Portuguese weighs a lot.