Porthole

In Time of Troubles, feed me ... chocolate.

30DBC: What product would you stockpile if you found out it would never be sold again? (If the product you choose is perishable, imagine, for the purposes of this question, that the product would remain useable/edible forever.)

CHOCOLATE
CHOCOLATE
CHOCOLATE

Seriously? Probably chocolate. Remember the favorite candies of your childhood? When was the last time you saw them? Those.

My mother, age 97, remembers 'cream drops' that her grandfather Mentzell would give her ... so think of Pennsylvania ... 1925 or so.

One can still find them (on the internet) but they aren't common in stores.

For my token gifts I gave out in Taiwan, I included Choward's Violet Candy, a memory of my childhood (first made in 1847). Saw some here in town... they aren't common any more.

Are there candy stores in your town? We have one here inside the Southgate Mall, but I've been to old-fashioned candy stores in Phillipsburg and Helena. One sees them around the world if one looks but in modern America we no longer have stores like Kresge's 5&10 (five and dime) that carried penny-candy.

So ... chocolate.

The coronavirus scare is a different issue as I sit here sneezing (probably due to dust). I have plenty of canned soups and pasta for a short-term hide-in-my-room. Long-term doesn't matter imho. I won't survive a collapse of civilization. Why would I want to? Who would read my poems? With no one to connect to, sticking around would be senseless. On the other hand, if I did survive along with others I'd cope. I always have ... as long as there's chocolate.

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