On the first day of the Paris transit strike as M. and I crossed the Pont Neuf, we saw workers pour into the Metro. M. said they will be packing into the few trains available "comme des sardines". I said we have the same expression - "packed in like sardines"! M. was surprised, but it's a universal concept afterall.
At the Salon du Chocolat I saw lots of chocolate sardines stacked high. Herrings too.
They're all filled with rich chocolate ganache. These sardines will traditionally end up in many French Christmas stockings.
All the chocolate fish were being sold at the Il de la Re Chocolats' stand, made on a popular resort island off the west coast of France near La Rochelle.
Getting to the Salon du chocolat entailed stacking into the Metro...
Very much like those chocolate sardines - The tin closes.
Inside the sardines are mashed but for a good reason.
Their modus operendi is to avail themselves of the stacks...
And stacks of delicious chocolate waiting them at the Salon du Chocolat.
I've never seen so much chocolate!Ah the smell of it.
The buyers are stacked up too.
Patiently waiting to buy their own stack of chocolate.
These two little sardines were.
Happily attending.Chocolate class.
The BEST school ever.
(no pun intended)
