The white and dark Chocolate The fear that turns into true love
A small anti-racist story
“Critical Chocolate” 2014 – 2015
• Scuola Primaria, Papa Giovanni XXIII, Bergamo, Italy • 1st Primary School, Nea Michaniona, Thessaloniki, Greece • 2nd Primary School Diminiou, Volos, Greece
“Critical Chocolate” 2014 – 2015
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The white chocolate was sitting on the shelf quite comfortably, admiring her kids that were sitting around her.
2nd Primary School Diminiou
She took pride in them, being so white, in their soft and delicate silver wrapper.
Source: http://www.yiannislucacos.gr/ingredient/1991/sokolataleyki#.VQ3p9OGMKyc
The truth is that, like every mummy, she felt extremely worried about her little ones. Heaven forbid, something should ever happen to them! Most of all she was afraid of bad companies. She was terrified that her own kids might get involved with dark chocolate. 1st Primary School, Nea Michaniona
She could never forget and reflected with horror about what had happened to the poor, purely white milk when it got involved with cocoa.
Scuola Primaria, Papa Giovanni XXIII
So, she pampered her children and advised them with all her tenderness: - Pray, never hang out with dark or milk chocolates, and above all, never mingle with them. Your whiteness will be stained forever, gradually you will be contaminated, and finally disappeared inside the awful brown colour.
1st Primary School, Nea Michaniona
Source: http://www.yiannislucacos.gr/lesson/2803/t a-eidi-tis-sokolatas#.VQ3tzeGMKyc
Do not have anything to do with them because they will have bad influence on you. Black chocolates are bitter and ugly. The brown ones which are somehow sweeter are much inferior to you and also dangerous for your wonderful white skin and devine, smooth like butter perfume. Scuola Primaria, Papa Giovanni XXIII
Do not forget that all the great works of art, all the works of high aesthetics that record a superior civilization have been made from pure,white, chocolate . Mirco Della Vecchia, one of Italy's most famous chocolatiers
Source: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1349024/Around-world--whitechocolate-These-tourist-sites-looked-tasty.html#ixzz3Ui5Cop3s
Thessaloniki, Chocolate Factory - Museum, TIF - Helexpo
She kept saying things like these every single day so that they didn’t forget their superior generation and she was dreaming that some day they will be worthy of their ancestors and they would as well become a piece of art, that would be there for eternity. Scuola Primaria, Papa Giovanni XXIII
And there finally came the day. The so delicate silver wrap that held her together with her children was torn off. In a while, she and her kids were within an exquisite, crystal clear jar. Oh! And all around them so many perfumes! They were surely inside the lab of a very important artist. Her beautiful, creamy white body shivered with anticipation. She felt a sweet warmth all over her body and she started to melt out of joy and happiness. She closed her eyes for a minute. How could she possibly bear so much happiness!
Alas, when she opened her eyes everything collapsed at once. She just saw in terror the awful figure of a black chocolate standing right next to them within a similar delicate transparent container, without shame - how insulting this was! What a tragedy she was in now! What could she possibly do now? How could she save her little ones? Fear conquered her and she started, with all her strength, yelling at the awful dark chocolate to go away from them. What a nerve! How did she
The festival chocolate in Bergamo, Italy
Her children were so scared that embraced her even more tightly. Luckily somebody heard their screams and took them away. They let a sigh of relief and their joy became bigger when they realized that they had been spread on a fragrant and terrifically chiseled piece of art.
The festival chocolate in Bergamo
However, their happiness didn’t last long! Before they even knew it, they found themselves inseparately bonded with their biggest fear, the repulsive black chocolate.
The festival chocolate in Bergamo, Italy
And there was nothing to be done any more. It was all over. They closed their eyes out of shame.
1st Primary School, Nea Michaniona
And it was not until then that they heard the exclamations of admiration around them. They could hardly believe their ears. Eventually they had become a piece of art!...even if they were bonded with the black chocolate for ever. On the contrary, this is what made them so admirable. They embraced her even more tightly and their friendship lasted a lifetime.
Thessaloniki, Chocolate Factory - Museum, TIF - Helexpo
A wedding gown by fashion designer Konstantinos covered all over with white and dark chocolate! Thessaloniki, Chocolate Factory - Museum, TIF - Helexpo
Chocolate made Guernika by the famous Greek chocolatier George Avgeros Thessaloniki, Chocolate Factory - Museum
Scuola Primaria, Papa Giovanni XXIII The hat parade
Thessaloniki’s most famous Easter treat
Scuola Primaria, Papa Giovanni XXIII
2nd Primary School Diminiou
“Critical Chocolate” 2014 – 2015
• Story written in Greek by Pefkoula Stagia • Transalated in English by Voula Tzouvara and Kiriaki Bella • The story was illustrated by the first grade kids of the 1st Primary School, Nea Michaniona, and their illustration was based on all of our partners’ work products on our common project.