Tuesday, July 28, 2009

How sweet it is!

Comedian Jackie Gleason said "How sweet it is!" about Brooklyn on his show "The Honeymooners," but inhabitants of Hershey, Pennsylvania, America's chocolate town, believe it's sweeter here! I took a tour of the Chocolate Town Exhibit, which is a far cry (for the better, in a way!) of the tours I took as a kid. Back then, you could tour the real factory, come finger-licking close to the vats of chocolate, and no one had heard of safety precautions! All the same, this tour was fun.

CYRILLIC VS. LATIN ALPHABET

Here in Serbia the Cyrillic alphabet (on the left above) is more frequently used than the Latin one, often puzzling foreigners who can't...