Which basically means Fair Trade Chocolate. My dream...
The bag tells you what it's all about - it's a fund-raising effort for parents' associations, a bit like the somewhat dreaded Webb-Ivory Catalogue back in the UK but not yet so over-used.
The bag tells you what it's all about - it's a fund-raising effort for parents' associations, a bit like the somewhat dreaded Webb-Ivory Catalogue back in the UK but not yet so over-used.
I just love the way that collective groups in France have teamed up with producers' collectives in the developing world, to the clear advantage of both. I always try to get Fairly Traded chocolate when I can, because it's the only label which is really certain to avoid child slave labour, and to provide product development, good working conditions and fair wages to the groups of farmers. I don't want to enjoy a snack at the expense of someone else's kid.
Up until now, I've found many delicious bars of FT chocolate in France, but NEVER any Easter eggs -it's been something of a crisis.
Here is a wonderful Fair Trade bell, because as those of you who have read 'Chocolat', by Joanne Harris, may remember:
'She used to say that on the eve of Good Friday the bells leave their steeples and church towers in the secret of the night and fly with magical wings to Rome...
'And the Pope blesses them, every one, far into the night, the thousands of France's steeples waiting empty for their return, silent until Easter morning...
'And the blessings turn into chocolates of all shapes and kinds, and the bells turn upside-down to carry them home. All through the night they fly, and when they reach their towers and steeples they turn over and begin swinging to peal out their joy...
'And the chocolates fly out across the fields and towns. They fall through the air as the bells sound. Some of them hit the ground and shatter. But the children make nests and place them high in the trees to catch the falling eggs and pralines and chocolate hens and rabbits and guimaves and almonds...
(Editor's note: And FISH!..)
2 comments:
Mmmm chocolate! You've got some lovely goodies there, I don't mind what shape they are ;)
We always get fairtrade coffee but I have to admit we're a bit lax about everything else.
Mel xxx
Thanks for letting me know I'd won...it should have been you though. You were first. If we were nearer we could share!
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