Bunny and crisis: Easter chocolate: large hollow figures

It wasn’t long ago that German medium-sized businesses expressed outrage at the federal government’s austerity policy in an open letter. While the social-liberal coalition has still not adopted the desired “relief and investment offensive,” the capable medium-sized companies are still doing their best to support Germany’s position against global market competition. The Wilhelm Rasch machine factory in Efferen, North Rhine-Westphalia, for example, has developed a fully automatic packaging machine just in time for Easter, which can also be used to “attract” chocolate Easter bunnies (“Kölner Stadtanzeiger”). Managing director Tina Gerfer summed up the situation in the local newspaper with full of pride as a businesswoman: “We have a market share of 90 percent for the large hollow figures.”

The eastern federal states also make their contribution to Germany as a chocolate location: “Blood sausage pralines in bitter chocolate from Saxony are conquering the world” (MDR). While you ask yourself whether it’s really in… each Food from dead animals has to be processed, the idea comes to mind that blood sausage pralines are a fitting culinary expression of conditions in which fascism is becoming socially acceptable while the ruling social democrats are preparing for the world war.

Particularly in this context, good news could be that eating dark chocolate “significantly improves” brain performance, as several studies have shown. Is there a glimmer of hope here at Easter? Or will the revolution ultimately be prevented by the fact that many people prefer milk chocolate? That would have to be investigated. But the next piece of bad news comes to mind: certain types of chocolate are highly contaminated with heavy metals! A bar “with 70 percent cocoa content had a high cadmium content, while the bar with 85 percent cocoa content had a high lead content” (consumer magazine “Beobachter”). How do the harmful substances get into the candy? The answer is: as usual in the most unreasonable mode of production ever. It’s Capitalism, stupid! According to the magazine “Consumer Reports,” in order to avoid lead contamination of the cocoa plant, “there would have to be changes in harvesting and manufacturing processes.” The magazine’s tip that you can “minimize the contact of the beans with the ground by drying beans on tables or clean tarpaulins away from roads or with protective covers” sounds a bit short-sighted.

For all those who are now torn between the promise of better brain performance, Germany’s lead in global competition and the fear of lead poisoning, the good old religion makes an unbeatable offer: At Easter “the 50-day Easter period of joy begins.” whose end is the festival of Pentecost. On the path of Jesus, believers move from destruction to salvation, from renunciation to fullness and from suffering to joy.” That’s the extent of the Evangelical Church in Germany – and whoever believes it will, as we all know, be saved.Tanja Rockemann

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