We've been having a lot of fun around here with these chocolate stamps that were released by the French Post Office about a month ago! My sister Kathleen, found them on David Lebovitz's site www.davidlebovitz.com and sent the link to me. Once we oohed and aahed together about their beauty and artistic quality, she asked if I could get her a sheet or two. I was heading into Figeac the next day and decided to stop in at the Poste. I was in luck, and ended up buying three sheets: one for Kat, one for me and a third for good measure! I sent Kat hers, began using mine (after I scanned it) and kept the third for a friend of my friend Evelyn. Jan fell in love with them while she was here, so we also stopped in at the Poste in Figeac, but no luck. Jan was able to purchase some on-line from the French Poste when she got back to the states.
This past Monday when I went in to get my colis of coffee in Cajarc, my favorite post-mistress had a sheet of these stamps sitting on her desk. Of course, I had to get another. Chatting with my neighbor and the post-mistress, I made sure my neighbor got a whiff because they actually smell like chocolate! We had the whole post office laughing, because as good as they smell you just can't eat them! When I brought my first batch home from the Post Office in Figeac, I looked forward to using them because I thought that the adhesive might have a chocolate flavor as well. The aroma was there, but I couldn't detect any hint of chocolate when I licked. I used one of the stamps from my Cajarc sheet yesterday, and voila...aroma and a huge taste of chocolate! Maybe the stamps were "fresh" or maybe it was all those giggles with my French friends and postal neighbors that carried a magic chocolate memory home with me!
I got a sheet a couple of weeks ago at our Post Office in Cajarc. I'm not sure about how easy it would be at a Post Office now, but a friend of mine went on-line to the French Poste and was able to buy them on-line. Good Luck!
Posted by: Laury Bourgeois | August 12, 2009 at 04:55 AM
I wonder if you can still get these stamps..I am going to France next week..I am apartment and cat sitting for a lady I met at a bloggers/expat meet back in april :-)
Posted by: anne | August 11, 2009 at 11:08 PM
yes, I have never thought of tasty stamps ! but I remember as young student, I sometimes went down and just looked and looked on the wonderful cakes in the bakershop window and then I had got enough to go up without buying and eating any cakes, the sight was enough !
Posted by: Niels Windfeld Lund | July 22, 2009 at 09:15 PM
What a great low-cal way to get your chocolate "fix"!
Posted by: Sandy | July 22, 2009 at 07:28 PM
They are so beautiful they probably should have been given the whole page here! I just love them and it seems that everyone else does too!
Posted by: Laury Bourgeois | July 22, 2009 at 04:52 PM
They're beautiful as well as chocolate-y!
Posted by: Evelyn Jackson | July 22, 2009 at 01:27 PM