Yesterday I received an email that confirmed to me the moral decline of Western Civilization. Graeter's Ice Cream is becoming available in Kroger's grocery stores throughout the mid-west and parts of the south.
How can that be? How can those little copper french pots possibly hold enough butterfat and mammoth chocolate chunks to supply the matrix of Kroger stores? Are round the clock shifts mandatory for the Cincinnati men and women stirring those special ingredients adding untold delight to taste buds and inches to the hips? Alas, I think not.
I believe that Graeter's has gone Hollywood. Homemade goodness has fallen victim to the almighty dollar. Why is Obama zeroing in on Wall Street when the bigger story is the world's best ice-cream has become another indication of Gordon Gekko's mantra - Greed is Good? Forget the SEC and Goldman, get the Commerce Department to lower the boom on the manufacturing complex of cream, butter, chips and nuts. Are the french copper pots and ladies with hairnets stirring the heavenly goodness still in the picture or have they succumbed to industrial steel buckets with mountain size metal beaters? Is the finished product being hand scooped into the cartons or is a robotic arm slamming it into the carton?
Graeter's was one of the five basic food groups of the Connelly household. Trips to the Fatherland always involved multiple visits to the shrine of all that is good in the world. We would often stop for a tasty treat before arriving at Michael's parents. Our priorities were in the right order, chocolate chocolate chip complete with bittersweet sauce before all else. In later years, we would have it shipped to our door. When storms cut power, Michael wasn't concerned about burst pipes - emergency action centered around saving the Graeters. I think Graeter's is why we now have a generator.
Katie bar the door, our society is in a downward spiral. Mass production of the Holy Grail is now a reality. Next announcement will be there is no Santa Claus. Where is government intervention when you need it?
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