What's your top Valentine's Day food gift?
I came across this photo in our archives with this amazing caption: "Wine tops Valentine's Day gift-giving lists."
Of course, whatever story it originally came with from the Associated Press has long gone out of our system (it's dated 2005) so I can't check the source of that statement, but it did get me thinking.
First of all, if I had to say a wine I thought someone might give at Valentine's Day, it would be champagne. But isn't chocolate the top gift for Valentine's Day?...
Or if not chocolate, then roses or lacy lingerie?
Once my husband, in a fit of romance never equaled before or since, bought me an elaborately iced cake in the shape of a heart for Valentine's Day, but he dropped it on the sidewalk in front of the house.
Comments
When in doubt, always follow the advice of Baltimore native Ogden Hash:
Candy
Is Dandy
But liquor
Is quicker.
ReCaptcha: mother dauphins (But, hey, Marie Antoinette's advice on cake didn't work for her. Did it work for EL's husband, given the heart cake mishap?)
Posted by: hmpstd | February 5, 2010 7:08 AM
Ogden Nash, of course. (Must. Drink. More. Coffee. Before. The. First. Post. Of. The. Day!)
Posted by: hmpstd | February 5, 2010 7:10 AM
Nothing says romance like chocolate. It is the ultimate love food. Especially really good chocolate truffles!
Posted by: Joyce W. | February 5, 2010 7:19 AM
my sweetheart will turn sour if i don't bring home glarus chocolates on v day
Posted by: unbelievaboh | February 5, 2010 7:29 AM
hmpstd, that is the first thing that came to my mind, too. Not that it'd ever occur to me to give someone a Valentine's Day gift.
Posted by: Lissa | February 5, 2010 8:20 AM
But Ogden Hash is a lot funnier!
Posted by: PCB Rob | February 5, 2010 8:43 AM
EL, did your hubby start singing, "How can you mend a broken heart? after dropping the cake?
Posted by: Zevonista | February 5, 2010 9:11 AM
Despite my captcha suggesting whimsier expectations, the old standard, Wockenfuss dark chocolate peanut clusters, still works for me.
Posted by: Donna Beth Joy Shapiro | February 5, 2010 9:26 AM
Zevonista, we can at least be grateful he didn't leave the cake out in the rain.
Posted by: Lissa | February 5, 2010 9:42 AM
But Lissa, it took so long to bake it!
Posted by: Zevonista | February 5, 2010 9:56 AM
I hope my husband remembers to pick up a gift from my favorite chocolatier - Cacao Lorenzo!
Posted by: Barbara B. | February 5, 2010 9:59 AM
And he'll never have that recipe again.
Posted by: Hal Laurent | February 5, 2010 10:09 AM
Chocolate in most any form.
EL: What a heartbreak, pun intended! (Sorry!) Geezy, what a disappointment to both of you.
Posted by: lyndyb | February 5, 2010 10:09 AM
Barbara B - you are RIGHT. Cacao Lorenzo is awesome. Especially their pralines around Thanksgiving.
Posted by: Kitkat | February 5, 2010 11:37 AM
Rhebs candy.
Posted by: Jman | February 5, 2010 11:50 AM
11:35 smells like a shill. I'm not clicking at work to verify.
Posted by: Lissa | February 5, 2010 11:56 AM
Dark chocolate covered strawberries. Since no one ever gives them to me, I usually make them.
Posted by: Eve | February 5, 2010 12:14 PM
Lissa is right -- it's a shill post at 11:35 AM, flogging some allegedly free software.
Posted by: hmpstd | February 5, 2010 12:29 PM
I know I've become a Baltimore native because I requested Rheb's chocolates this year.
Posted by: Amy | February 5, 2010 2:04 PM
I give my husband his favorite candy--dark chocolate covered vanilla buttercreams. If I were going to give wine, it would be port (because it goes so well with chocolate).
Captcha: walkways of ...what else but SNOW?!
Posted by: Dottie | February 6, 2010 12:40 AM