The Swiss chocolate

Lindt & Sprüngli has always been a favorite brand for me since 2010. I used to buy the Lindt bars and praline for home from a golf course road store, spending a little extra on pay days (another habit I had picked up from my father, who used to buy my sister and me a rum-ball or a chocolate 🍫 pastry on his pay day).

 

Nowadays you get brilliant single origin chocolates 🍫 in India. Manam Chocolate Rakkaudella Chocolates are as good as many international brands. I love The Himalayan Chocolates, too, because of their business philosophy. A Chocolate Expo is coming up later this month in Bangalore, I may attend that, too.

 

In Geneva’s Cornavin station 🚉, there is a Sprungli brand store. The service is experiential. I bought exactly three 100 gms bars of chocolate 🍫.

 

-One for my wife.

-One for my daughter

-One for a dear friend

 

Did anyone think of his/her favorite nursery rhyme here?🤩

 

The lady showed me around the store, more like a chocolate tasting event, made me taste the Venezuelan, Cuban and Mexican variants, offered me Macaroons on a bone china plate, posed for a photograph, and packed my Chocolates with care in a paper bag, costing me 10 cents.

 

Most of us have lost a lot of touch with in-store experiences for products like Chocolates, thanks to the E-Commerce and Quick commerce platforms, but those of us still buy confectionery at a shopping arcade, can’t dare to ask for a chocolate tasting, for sure.

 

In my neighborhood confectionery named “Big-chill-cakery”, once I had paid for a chocolate pastry on UPI, but somehow it didn’t hit their Cash Matching system, they had literally held me hostage for 20 minutes and then took my residence address before handing over the paper box 📦 to me. It’s a little (not big 😅) bone-chilling experience for sure. And the rhyming word of “bakery” came to my mind for a random pun.

 

Quiet luxury isn’t about logos. It’s about flawless experiences, great products and craftsmanship, and details only another connoisseur would notice.

 

The loudest statement is often the one no one hears.

 

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