Chocolate Field Trip - Fassbender & Rausch

Last week, I went to Fassbender & Rausch for no better reason than, well, chocolate. Does there need to be a better reason? Could there be a better reason?

So because it's apparently not enough to just eat the chocolate--and let me tell you, they have a restaurant that serves chocolate in every dish, even the entree, so they have that part covered--F & R have some kind of devious plan to build (dare I say it?) a world of chocolate. Chocolate buildings, chocolate mountains, chocolate globe. A chocolate doppelganger of the Earth with which to replace the real one--just like in that weak Hitchhiker's Guide film from a few years back--and no one would be the wiser.

Evidence of Fassbender and Rausch's plan for world domination.

And to prove my point, they have models everywhere in their chocolate showroom, just like Carmen Sandiego leaving you clues as to where they're going with this plan.

Where in the world has this chocolate castle been all my life?

Because it's not enough to concoct a plan to take over the world--after all, who hasn't? No, they have to show off their lofty vision so they can gloat about it when they finally accomplish their goal.

One of my favorite models was a largish chocolate volcano, seen below in animated glory. If only they had a little chocolate Pompeii below it, with little chocolate people buried in chocolate. That would have been an unexpected touch. Or even a chocolate Han Solo frozen in a block of chocolate carbonite. Then it would have been a perfect day. But who would want a perfect day? Then there's no room for improvement.

Oooo...percolation.