Les Bon-Bons de Maison Daniel

Tonight, Daniel shared an important confectionary secret he had uncovered:

"Daddy, you should try mixing candy canes with dark chocolate.  It's really good!"

Within a couple of minutes, he was back with the genuine article:

"Daddy, brush your teeth good, but try this - it's really good!"

With touching parental affection, he wanted me to try the new taste sensation, but also avoid tooth decay.  True to his Judeo-Celtic origins, he handed me a fine mixture of candy-cane-segment and a Hanukkah chocolate "gelt" coin.  The gelt came from his Christmas stocking, and the candy-cane was from the ritual plunder that he had undertaken with Ian at the end of the first day of Christmas, apparently considering the holiday to be over and the Christmas tree to be open for candy-cane season hunting.  The candy cane segment was about an inch long, lovingly broken off of a larger stock, but the gelt was solid, round, and unbroken.  The two constituted more of a composite treat than a solitary unit, being juxtaposed rather than combined in any structural way.  It turned out that the mixing takes place in the mouth itself - a perfectly reasonable place for these wonderful tastes to come together, since this is where taste really matters.

And the lad was onto something.  The minty chocolate combination had a timeless holiday zing to it.

(January 15, 2013)