“Krone” author Robert Schneider puzzles in his column “Schneider’s glasses” about why the confectioner Hubertus Neef jun. gave up his job, did it have something to do with talking chocolates?
Almost a year ago, the confectioner Hubertus Neef jun. von “Neef & Söhne” gave up a confectioner’s hat and chef’s jacket, drove to the trade office and put his company on hold. There were rumors of tinnitus and burnout. The truth is different, and it came like this: The legendary confectionery in Weimar has existed for generations. Goethe is said to have ordered baskets full of “Tête de nègre” for his sweet tooth (no less in number). If not completely drunk, Kandinsky swore by “Mohr im Shirt” with cognac. So it can be read in the company chronicle.
Certainly Hubertus Neef jun. The growing awareness of the politically incorrect designation of desserts has been taken into account and all incriminated names have been removed from the range. A somewhat robust ethnology student had made life difficult for him, collected signatures and repeatedly submitted entries to the anti-discrimination agency.
He was alone in the kitchen, pulling a baking sheet with choux pastry out of the oven, when one of the cream puffs began to grumble. It is a defamation and tacitly accepted discrimination that he and his kind are doused with chocolate. That is racist and serves the stereotype of the stupid, good-hearted black. An éclair is golden brown when it comes out of the pipe. Had the maître never heard of Blackfacing?
The confectioner interpreted what he had heard as a sign of permanent reworking, put the tray down to cover the pralines made of orange pulp with couverture of white dark chocolate elsewhere. The oranges rose. They wanted to stay orange. Had he never heard of whitefacing. The pastry chef had to take three booze to numb the voices.
But the voices were not silent, followed him into his dreams. When two “People of Color” came into the shop one morning and sneered and demanded “Mohrenköpfe”, Hubertus Neef junior tore himself. the confectioner’s hat off the head.