German chocolate
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Frankfurt, Germany
IT IS LATE and we are serving dinner on a flight from Frankfurt, Germany to the USA. The food catered out of Germany is delicious, crispy schnitzel with fluffy mashed potatoes, bright green peas, salad and dessert. The dessert is four butter cookies in a little tin. A 2-inch square of milk chocolate wrapped in Ritter Sport turquoise foil sits on top of the cookie tin.
We are an all-female crew tonight, and everyone knows the love of women for chocolate. Nothing is better than German chocolate in general and Ritter Sport in particular. On these flights, we always set aside the uneaten wrapped chocolates when picking up trash. There are usually five or ten chocolates leftover after every trash pickup, which will be divided between the flight attendants.
Tonight, however, we are all eyeing the chocolate. We want it, and we can’t wait. One of the flight attendants comes up with an idea. The passengers have butter cookies on their trays. They won’t miss the chocolate if they can’t see it. Why don’t we take all the chocolates off the trays and save it for ourselves? It’s not like they won’t have any dessert. After all, they do have four butter cookies.
We think this is a smashing idea. Before the service, we quickly go through the carts of meal trays and take all the Ritter Sport chocolate. We divide it up, put it in airsick bags, make sure every flight attendant gets a package to take to the hotel.
The passengers suspect nothing. We eat chocolate until we are sick.
