The Year They Outlawed Chocolate
The Year they outlawed chocolate in our village was calamity.
It might have trimmed our waistlines, but it did not promote amity.
Former cheery citizens, lacking its sweet delight,
commenced to back-biting when they had nothing sweet to bite.
The town jail quickly filled right up with chocolate-smugglers and
little grannies in aprons who forgot chocolate was banned.
Young kids wound up in juvie just for shooting M&Ms.
Chocolate-loving parsons sat in jail cells humming hymns.
Cocoa went undercover and fudge went on the skids.
Moms had to resort to feeding apples to their kids!
We were all in mourning, yet the mayor was resolute.
With the whole town in withdrawal, he didn’t give a hoot!
In the end, townspeople voted to freeze the salaries
of councilmen and mayor who had voted to freeze calories.
So politicians changed their minds, reversing chocolate bans
by commissioning the blacksmith to forge three giant pans
and then they used his ovens to create colossal brownies—
enough to furnish chocolate for all the pissed-off townies.
“No Chocolate Allowed” signs were defaced and taken down,
making the perfect kindling for bonfires all over town.
The very air was sweet the night that chocolate was unbanished!
Hostess Cupcakes had to do when brownies quickly vanished.
Strings of lights and fireworks lit the evening air
as townfolk used hot cocoa to wash down their last eclair.
When they ran out of Hershey bars, at first they were aghast,
until Snickers bars ran rampant and Kit Kat bars were passed.
It was a bonbon orgy, a candy jubilee
The day the politicians set chocoholics free!
Prompt words today are chocolate, village, cheery and amity.
lifelessons - a blog by Judy Dykstra-Brown 
Sounds messy… all those citizens overdosing on chocolate. Disgraceful!
Love it.
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Sister in Crime and Calories…although you don’t look it!!!
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Reblogged this on Serendipity Seeking Intelligent Life on Earth and commented:
Okay, this was the first smile of the day. Well, the second because Owen baked ginger snaps and French bread. But this is awfully cute. Downright adorable 😀
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Thanks, Marilyn. I shouldn’t write pieces like this while dieting. I’ll have to do an add-on blog about the sad end of the little chocolate birthday cake I bought for a friend yesterday..
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That would be horrible indeed, glad this is fiction, even though my chocolate is sugar-free!
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Sleep easy. What town in its right mind would ban chocolate???? ;o)
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No good town, that’s for sure.
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Delightful. I can almost smell the brownie-scented party air.
Love the line: “commenced to back-biting when they had nothing sweet to bite.”
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Judy,
This is amazingly good. Just like Prohibition didn’t work, chocolate is another item that should not ever be banned. I laughed and made Douglas chuckle just before he left for his walk. You are wonderful!
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brilliant
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What would I do without my chocolate fix each day?
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So much chocolate fun to be had Judy 😉
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Fun story and rhyming 🥰
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Haha. Loved this Judy.
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Delightfully delicious! One of those, “Wish I’d thought of that.” moments too. 😉
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What a frightening thought!
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