April Fish!

So, last Monday I was in Strassburg, France for the day. It's only a couple of hours by train, and since we got a group together (Emily, me, Shravanthi, Katie, and Kathleen), it was only 10 Euros a person, round-trip. Not too shabby, considering a ticket from Chicago to France would be at least 50 times that!

Anyway, we kept seeing these beautiful "fish" chocolates in all of the bakeries. They were shaped like Chinese goldfish, and the chocolate used to make them was swirled with red and orange. Since it's close to Easter, I figured they had something to do with the "loaf of bread and fish" story from the Bible.

Chinese Goldfish

Well, as Guillaume later clarified, it's actually because of April Fish Day (aka April Fool's Day). In France, the traditional prank is to tape a picture of a fish on someone's back and see how long it takes them to figure it out.....with bonus points for successfully putting an April Fish (Poisson d'Avril) on a teacher's back. You learn somethin' new every day. :)