A CandyLand Easter

Here is an enormous inflatable Lindt milk chocolate bunny, outside a drugstore. 

This is only one drugstore in Canada, not to mention North America and Europe.

When a little balloon costs two dollars, imagine what this - and its thousands of POS (point-of-sale) clones must have cost -- all folded into the price of the chocolate, of course. I wonder what the homeless guy, who stands outside this store in all weather under his grimy damp  blanket, thinks of this excess?

I drove down the street after gawking at this and saw one of those Smart Cars all painted gold with huge gold bunny ears  -- a Lindt Gold Bunny car.

This is one among presumably thousands of Lindt gold bunny cars out there promoting a CandyLand Easter.

The Smart Car is environmentally worthy...but you have to wonder about the manufacture of those gigantic balloons, both the ingredients  used to manufacture them and the energy used to create them; and then about what inflates them, and the energy used to transport them all over the world. All  all that marketing money for this one promotion for a religious festival that has become more about candy than crucifixion. And all those unhappy cows who lived nasty lives to produce the milk for the chocolate.

I hope Jesus doesn't come back too soon. I don't think He'd be very happy either to see what the festival contemplating the meaning of his life & death has come down to.

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