Yesterday we wandered into one of our favourite browsing stores here, and right now it is probably the same in many places around the world – easter eggs and other chocolate fancies and novelties piled high to meet the annual choc buying and eating splurge that so often presents as ‘Easter’ , blinding many to the real point of this particular Christian festival. We thought we had seen everything until we came across this chocolate fountain playing as a focal point of the easter egg display. The notice on the front of the fountain warns that the contents of this fountain are for display purposes only, and the stuff is not edible. I did a hand/heat test, touching the outside of the fountain from the other side before I read the sign, and it was quite cold. I am left with the appalling thought that by the time they pull the display down on monday, probably many little fingers belonging to people of below-reading-age will have taken a dip into the ‘choccy fountain’ while their parents’ attention is diverted. Easter greetings from Montevideo. 