Monday, December 21, 2009

Land of Chocolate

The other day my wife was telling my little son what and all cows can give to us. Milk, Butter, Yogurt, Cheese and the list went for a while. Looks like my son understood what cows can give to us and nodded his head. Next time, he listed all milk products, and included few more items - ice creams, chocolates...Chocolates…mmm. I have started to think like “Homer Simpson”, recalled his fantasy of “Land of Chocolate”. In one episode, Homer was attending an evaluation meeting with nuclear plant’s **new** bosses who bought the plant from M. Burns (yes, Springfield nuclear power plant was taken over by German consortium once, and returned back to Burns). The meeting was about to discuss how Homer can contribute to improve the plant efficiency. As usual, Homer comes with his typical idea for plant improvisation. The employees were not getting enough candies and more candies in the vending machine can improve employee morale. The German bosses replied “Yes, we understand, after all we are from Land of Chocolate”. And Homer says “mmm, Chocolate” and he goes into infamous “Land of Chocolate” imaginary world, where all stuff is made of Chocolate, buildings, humans, rabbits, everything is made of chocolate. Homer runs and bites whatever he could, till his German bosses wakes him up from the “Land Of Chocolate” dream. I'm not sure why Simpson folks call Germany as Land of Chocolate. To me, Belgium is the ultimate "Land of Chocolate" in this planet!