Antiques And Chocolate

Two rather insignificant subjects got stuck in my mind today, and as a result, you get an E mail about them. It was the subjects of antiques and chocolate. So I have an observation and question or two for you about these two. As to antiques, I was wondering what produces make today would be the "future antiques".
My understanding is that an antique's value depends on the scarcity of the object and its quality. Without those two elements present the antique value of the object is low. But in this age of throw-away products that are mass produced, I think the traditional popular antiques, such as furniture, jewelry, and the many other handcrafted objects no longer being made will not be the bulk of the antiques of the future.
On the other hand, those tacky mass-produced products that are being created today that will one day no longer be in production, and this may make them go up in value since they represent noteworthy designs in this time. Yep! Even those cheap McDonald's kid meals toys may become antiques. My point though is that we may have a different kind of antique in the future (But you and I will both be dead before this theory is ever put to a test).
I think memorabilia will be even bigger in the future. That ticket and program stub from the 2008 Beijing Olympics, the celebrity autograph or the movie poster you stole from the theater display might be worth more than the traditional oil painting or Chippendale chair of yesterday. What do you think will be the antique of the future? Am I thinking too much about this? (antique thinking?) After wasting time thinking about antiques I started to waste my time wondering about the proliferation of those "premium" chocolate bars. I refer to the chocolate that is we now see in stores or advertised by "vintage or purity". I see chocolate that is displayed according to the cocoa bean region (as in, "Exclusive Colombian Bean Chocolate") or the purity (as in the " 80% Cocoa Bar") of the chcolate bar. It's all so complicated now that we can no longer simply as for a bar of chocolate.
Chocolate has become the new wine- with different grades, strength, and regional variations. I expect to see a chocolate vintner next, to help define all the claims chocolate sellers make about why their chocolate bar is different or better than another. Isn't a dark chocolate bar a dark chocolate bar? Assuming they have the same amount of cocoa and other ingredients in them, can anyone really tell the difference? Most chocolate bars are manufactured in a standard way, that because chocolate is made to international purity standards that are the same almost everywhere. This is because unless chocolate has the same few ingredients it can not be called "chocolate".
And if we have reached the stage where chocolate is graded and classified by the chocolate vintners, will chocolate snobs be far behind the always present wine snobs we keep running into? I like chocolate because it tastes good and is a simple and consistent product. But now in an effort to increase their sales, the chocolate makers are turning their simple candy bars into something entirely too complicated.
Have you also noticed this trend in chocolate? Or have I been eating so much chocolate I am halluciating again?
We see frequent news stories of crazed or jealous women decapitating a man's private part, but I just read of the first male on male cutting. I hope this isn't a trend..... Here's what happened in the incident. Police there said that an elderly Turkish man was arrested in Austria on suspicion in the shooting death of another Turk and cutting off his penis because he believed the victim was having an affair with his wife.
A police statement said the 76-year-old Turk confronted the other man, 58, at a bus stop in Wimpassing, Austria, near Vienna, shot him at close range, sliced off the man's penis with a kitchen knife and laid it beside him before fleeing. The gunman was arrested in a nearby apartment building, offering no resistance. During questioning, he admitted the killing and said he was relieved "because he had rescued his honor," the statement said. It said the man told police that his wife and the other man appeared to have been carrying on a relationship for 20 years and he had challenged the man about it, without result.
I wonder if that guy had a penis envy complex or a desire to have that other guy's penis for himself. And is this common in Turkey or among Turks? I am not sure how chopping another man's penis is rescuing "his honor", but when the other inmates in prison hear about that guy's crime he may need to be rescued himself.....or find a dress to wear while in that prison.