Valentine’s Day card from your butcher:
‘Oh won’t you be my valentine
My prime rib is $8.99
We’ll have an everlasting love
To me you are a cut above”
From your letter carrier
“Let me deliver
My love to you
If there’s no stamp
Some money is due”
From your local politician:
Just vote for me my valentine
don’t fret if I don’t toe the line
my lobbyist’s the one who hands me the dough
and he brings it in a wheel barrow
Or will you go for the ‘Knipschildt’s La Madeline au Truffe?’
Valentine’s Day is coming soon so I hope you’ve ordered your flowers and expensive chocolates. Make your reservations and you might as well slick down your hair too, because this is the day to make points. Gone are the days when simply saying ‘I Love You’ with a homemade card and a bunch of posies from the yard will suffice.
Those were the old days, before marketing. What says ‘I Love You’ more, than flying your loved one to an expensive out of state restaurant where the staff knows you’re getting schtupped for your money. Throw in a dozen long stemmed American beauty roses and a Hallmark greeting card with enough lace to make a dress and although you’ve squeezed those bleeding credit cards too much already, you’ll have a nice day with a loved one who admires your financial irresponsibility. A credit card cash advance means never having to say “I’m broke’. You can now walk to the poorhouse, but have a good day!
Valentine’s Day turned into an unabashed merchandising bacchanalia.
The amount of lace on the card says it all. Here’s a $10 card, I Love You; here’s a $15 card, I really Love You! Here’s a $30 card, I’ll move to Uzbekistan for you. You can’t put a price on Love but tell that to someone whose credit card hasn’t come up for air in years.
Have we been overwhelmed by people who want to put words of Love in our mouth while they take cash out of our pocket? That’s a resounding YES!
It’s the little things like making your mate a special cup of coffee while she ponders all the expensive things you could have done. Nothing says, “I Love You” like a double steamed milk white chocolate mocha with caramel machiatto poured over an ice float shaped like a heart with a string of cherries for the aorta.
Yes take your love out, anywhere as long as it’s away from the house, which means that you care enough to get in the car and drive her somewhere.
The timing of Valentine’s Day in the middle of February couldn’t have been better.
Almost everyone who has made a New Year’s resolution to lose weight and exercise has either forgotten those vows or has lost just enough to splurge on candy and other sweets.
Go the gourmet chocolate route and put together a Valentine’s gift basket.
The equation seems to be that more expensive chocolate means more love, so that a Hershey’s Kiss is to the finest chocolate what a Kia Rio is to a Bugatti Veyron.
‘How deep is your love?’ starting with a high end Godiva ‘G’ collection.
It consists of Palet d’Or, Tasmanian Honey and Mexican Hot Chocolate. Each made of premium cocoa beans. Not bad. $120 a pound.
Let’s move on to a true declaration of your glittering love with a Delafee brand chocolate made from fine cocoa beans and flakes of edible 24-karat gold applied by hand to each praline at a cost of about $500 per pound.
Here comes undying everlasting love, affection and bankruptcy. In 1999 a Danish chocolate maker, Fritz Knipschildt founded Knipschildt Chocolatier. He produces, on order only, a dark chocolate truffle with a French black truffle inside. Made of 70% Valrhona cacao, it is blended into a creamy ganache with truffle oil. It is then hand rolled and dusted with cocoa powder. One can visualize them wearing kitchen white tuxedos. Each truffle cost about $250 with the price per pound is a mere $2600!
Aren’t you glad it comes around only once a year?
