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Published: May 12 2012

Buzz Fleischman - Columnist Page. Mother's Day is not for the squeamish!

It's one of those very special days when the marketing people hope your mother will equate the most expensive, lace-laden, love song playing, Mother's Day greeting card with the depth of your love. After all, you're trying to make up for each time you messed up in school and she had to come and 'bail you out'. Mom was there so much that the other kids thought she worked there.

I'm sure that some un-scientific survey will verify that if you add some fine chocolates, and a night out, the 'feel good' effect will last until Father's Day when you will simply need to purchase a gift card to Outdoor World.

Oh yes, the flowers; one of the most significant aspects of Mother's Day. For the slow to catch on, roses aren't always that expensive. Once again, marketing has taken hold of our credit cards.

Some will say it's the little things like making your mother a special cup of coffee while she ponders all the expensive things you could have bought. Nothing says 'I love you mom' like a double steamed whole milk mocha macchiato poured over a heart shaped ice float with cherries for the aorta. Or just take your mom out of her house which means that you care enough to get in the car and drive her somewhere.

So let's talk about chocolate, which is synonymous with how sweet you really are. The equation seems to be that more expensive chocolate means more love, so that a Hershey's Kiss is to the finest chocolate what a Kia Rio is to a Bugatti Veyron.

Let's see 'how deep is your love' starting with a high end Godiva 'G' collection which consists of Palet d'Or, Tasmanian Honey and Mexican Hot Chocolate. Each made of premium cocoa beans. Not bad. $120 a pound.

Let's move on to a true declaration of your glittering adoration with a Delafee brand chocolate made from fine cocoa beans and flakes of edible 24-karat gold applied by hand to each praline at a cost of about $500 per pound.

Here comes undying everlasting motherly love and affection. In 1999 a Danish chocolate maker, Fritz Knipschildt founded Knipschildt Chocolatier. He produces, on order only, a dark chocolate truffle with a French black truffle inside. Made of 70% Valrhona cacao, it is blended into a creamy ganache with truffle oil. It is then hand rolled and dusted with cocoa powder. One can visualize them wearing kitchen white tuxedos. Each truffle cost about $250 with the price per pound of, are you sitting down? $2600!! We're not talking Betty White with a Snickers Bar!

Aren't you glad Mother's Day comes around only once a year?