Sunday 19 October 2014

Baci

It is a sad occasion when you realise that you have eaten your last Baci chocolate.



' Since 1922 Baci Perugina has been making the most romantic and indulgent of chocolates. Rich, bittersweet and with hazelnuts inside, each Baci comes wrapped in a love note.' Baci is Italian for Kiss.

These are some of the 'love notes' found inside my chocolates purchased in Perugia.
'Passion colours everything it touches' - Baltasar Gracian
'More than the help of friends we need the certainty of it' - Epicuro
'Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise' - Samuel Johnson
'Your teeth, like pearls, put the stars to shame' - Valt

Which reminds me of an occasion when a strange old man got into the bus in Los Angeles, pulled out his fold up chair and sat in the aisle facing three pretty young girls. We were all a little disconcerted by his action but were taken aback when he suddenly said to one of the girls ... 'Your lips are like rubies, they glow in the night'


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