Chocolate Dreams

Todays topic is: CHOCOLATE, the most wonderful product that the spanish brought back from the Americas. A thing worth killing for. Mmmm, love it! It's even in the politics. A infamous scandal in 1995 with a credit card from the government buying things for around 56 000 SEK named The Toblerone Affair with the then vice-prime minister (now prime minister candidate) has resurfaced in these election times. The minister of financial markets, Mats Odell, made a comment about the red-greens proposal to give the municipalities 9 billion SEK together with the infrastructure proposal on 120 billion SEK and not finance it properly and just mentions tax raises and loans (ironically as the red-green complained that the tax cuts the current government made was financed with loans). The comment was that:

"It's pure Toblerone politics. You charge it on your credit card and then send the bill to the Swedish people"

The Red-Greens has exploded and start complaining that this is the lowest trick a politician can use (not mentioning their own attacks on the center-right parties as heartless and pushing people into the stocks). I love it! For being a christ democrat he has a very sharp tongue. May this push them up in the opinion. This will continue and I, and all my closer friends hope to god that the center-right wins (yes, they have probably brainwashed me, but I don't care).

But it was chocolate that was todays subject and the next story is really about chocolate. Apparently American scientist has confirmed that chocolate is used to get out of depressions. You who have followed this blog knows that my usual treatment when I'm sick, depressed or just have a craving for something sweet is chocolate. A universal medicine.

Leaving the chocolate behind, it's time for the pre-Eurovision Song Contest and boy, the music is not good. The few highlights is Bosnia-Herzegovina with a decent rock song, just building up until the damned end that didn't give anything (might be better in the long version) and Poland that has a strong build up as well, but it start out very bad. It gets better the more the instruments gets stronger and stronger, but it should be that the whole way thru. No, it will not be enjoyable to watch this if it continues like this. More reports next week.

PS. The picture at the top is parts of the Marabou chocolate brand, the BEST chocolate in the world. Take that Switzerland, France, Belgium and Luxembourg.