Easter eggs, Brazilian style
My trip to Mississauga went very well. Other than the fact that the peanut butter, Cheez Whiz, and Campbells soup got confiscated at the Chicago airport, everything was a success. Going from 29 Celsius to -6 was a bit of an adjustment though! BRRRRR!!!
In Brazil, you almost never see chocolate bunnies here at Easter. Everybody buys chocolate eggs. And the number one place to buy your chocolate eggs is at the grocery store or the department store. All stores set up their displays the same way. They erect these metal beams that run across the aisle and continue for most of the length of the aisle. As you shop you have to pass under this canopy of Easter eggs.
This is what it looks like from beneath it. There are hundreds or even thousands of these various eggs hanging from the beams.
Here is what an individual egg look like when it's still wrapped. All of the eggs are hollow and inside they'll have a certain type of chocolate bonbons, all individually wrapped. The price of these eggs range from 7 to 45 Reais ($3.50 - $23.00) Since there are few other options at Easter, kids get excited about what's in the egg (sometimes it is filled with small toys) and how many eggs they'll get.
Cary Sawatsky posted this message at 4:05 p.m..
