It was almost Easter, and a person dressed as a bunny hopped down the corridors, promoting a candy store by handing chocolate eggs to children.
Each store always has five flavors on hand: traditional, chocolate, pistachio, coconut and cheesecake.
Faced with his brother's saucer eyes and defective right hand, the chocolate ring around his pale mouth, Sid never found the strength to do anything but shrug.
On the other hand, the chocolate fondue offered on the Valentine menu at MidAtlantic in Philadelphia comes with a possible secret weapon for anyone trying to put a man in an amorous frame of mind: doughnuts.
WHAT WE LIKE All the appetizers; sweet corn and celery root soup; pasta, tuna, salmon, chicken, duck, smoke and spice, river and ocean, many sushi rolls and hand rolls; chocolate cake, sorbets, green tea mousse.
Founded by Columbia grads Fabian Kaempfer, Nick LaCava, and Eric Heinbockel, the service has really taken off since launch and the founders still have a hand in chocolate manufacture.
Their willingness to show up, whether to bring me baseballs or hand me chocolate shakes, but frequently, for me as a child, showing up just meant being present, not talking, not fixing, not solving, but being present with me.
Somewhat traditional, but always fun, try your hand at chocolate body painting.
Look for 'adult' confectionery online and hand out chocolate nipples or willies.
It is hand-crafted chocolate.
