My wonderful sister-in-law sent a Valentine’s package including a delicious package of Dove chocolates. My husband opened a chocolate and said, “Why is there a quote from Martha Stewart on the wrapper?”
“WHAT?!?” I said intrigued, being the person hyperfocused on Martha and perfectionism at the moment. I grabbed the bag and sure enough, these are the Martha Stewart branded Dove chocolates with “Martha Stewart’s Valentine Tips on Every Wrapper.”
As you open your little chocolate to enjoy the goodness, you are greeted with a suggestion typically for some sort of craft project you can do to remember your Valentine. Perhaps because of the inferiority complex Martha Stewart can generate, these tips on the wrapper incite very strange feelings. Instead of just sitting back, relaxing and enjoying the chocolate, I feel a strange sense of anxiety mixed in. “Should I write that tip down? How could I do that? Can I throw the wrapper away or should I save it?” The way some of the tips are worded also make them sound like commandments rather than suggestions. It’s chocolate with a side of passive aggressive guilt.
What better gift for your perfectionist valentine?
LOL! Sorry, Anne! Didn’t mean to cause a complex… I mostly just wanted you guys to enjoy the chocolates! Hahahaha…
A good friend included a bag of Dove chocolates in a care package after my miscarriage two years ago. First time I had ever tried them. Those had quotes having to do with love and romance on the wrappers. I thought these would be the same! I am sad to see that they have gotten more commercial than then. What a disappointment.
P.S. I have found that if you eat enough of them, you wind up memorizing all the different “suggestions” and you don’t need to write them down after all.