Back in the day when I lived in San Francisco, there was a curious chocolate shop that had amazing sculptures in the window. A Transamerica building in white chocolate, A Golden Gate Bridge. Wildly colored tulips made of red, green, and pink colored chocolate. Specialty holiday windows like tons of Easter bunnies!
I read the story in SFGate and started to cry. Joseph Schmidt’s is closing. It’s right next to a high school and a few blocks away from Church Street station on the Muni. The first time I had one of their chocolates I was in college and saw them at Charlotte’s Florists in Fairfax. I was thrilled that my new apartment in San Francisco was within blocks of the place!
Sadly, they were purchased by one chocolate company and then a larger one. Corporate takeovers kill the places we love. If we are lucky it will be swift and quick instead of a soulless dilution of personality, destroying memories of all the things we love about our local product. Thank God you can still get See’s Candies (SF) or Mary Sue Eggs (Baltimore). But Frank’s soda (PA) is long gone. Even Yuengling (beer) doesn’t taste quite the same anymore.
Yes, I will be dragging boyfriend there during our March visit. I know he likes chocolate so it won’t be too hard to make him walk over there, then hop on to get some violet fudge at another candy shop in the Castro. And also some quality dim sum.
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Any time I’m out west I stock up on Mother’s Cookies, especially the Taffy and the English Tea (remember the frosted & sprinkled animal crackers?) Sadly, they too have shut down. Kellogs bought the whole kit and kaboodle and claim that they’ll be bringing them back. Time will tell.