Marilyn's Photos - Nov 16 2025 - Christmas is Chocolate Time
Is there any time that isn’t chocolate time? Somehow Christmas is chocolate ad time. The first edible chocolate bar happened in 1847. After that conching was invented by Lindt where chocolate was mixed and aerated for hours to create that smooth, creaming, melt-in-your-mouth texture that we consider chocolate. The Europeans took out the chilis and spices and put in the sugars. There were a lot of inventions, evolutions and developments along the way. Maybe chocolate is the diamond of the candy world.
Do you know that there are preserved chocolate bars made between 1764 and 1795 for the King of Poland. They bear the King’s monogram and on display in his Palace on the Water in Warsaw. Isn’t that curiosity of some sort.
And the industrial movement of the 1800s and 1900s meant that wrapping chocolate bars in festive labels became affordable for the middle class, with figurines like chocolate Santas and elves becaming a tradition, along with the Chocolate Advent Calendar.
There seems to me to be a societal evolution where Christmas has become a time of indulgence. The box of chocolates is perfect for the middle class to showcase indulgence. What could be better than that? Well, for the rich, there is something. Le chocolat box includes chocolates, necklaces, earrings, rings and bracelets in diamonds, sapphires and emeralds. I found a picture and it doesn’t look that impressive, does it? That’s because it really is jewellery with some chocolate. At $1.5 million, I was hoping for something more compelling.
More affordable (!) in comparison would be Le Madeline au Truffe - a single chocolate truffle costing $250, To’ak chocolate bar - $360 and the DeLaFee’s gold chocolate box with 8 chocolates and an antique gold coin at $390. And there are more options than these.
Don’t worry that you will have to choose which one to get for Christmas. We have a succession of chocolate festive days - Valentine’s and Easter. Then you can move into World Chocolate Day, International Chocolate Day, and National Chocolate Day. Or you can expand to other religious celebrations - Day of the Dead, Hanukkah and Diwali.
There’s an endless chocolate highway with many stops along the way.
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