A Lesson in Socialism

We have a chocolate milk problem in our house.  Wait, scratch that.  We have a major chocolate milk problem in our house.

It's bad enough that we go through a little under a gallon of milk a day, amounting to purchasing 4 gallons of milk about every 5 days. 

But the Hershey's chocolate syrup intake is quite ridiculous.  I'm not kidding when I say that for Christmas, I would like a gallon of chocolate syrup with a pump.  Or at least stock in Hershey's.  Because while I have fooled my kids in the past with the Great Value generic chocolate syrup, even I have to admit it is just not the same.

Yesterday, I had a brilliant idea.  I purchased 3 bottles of chocolate syrup.


Exhibit A

 Each child of mine gets a bottle, clearly (or not so clearly) marked with their initial.  Each child is equal in the eyes of my governmental distribution of chocolate wealth.  I don't care how old they are, how many calories they are supposed to consume due to their height, weight and body mass, or how much chocolate milk they "need."  It does not matter how much work they do in the household or what kind of labor they toil - everyone is equal in terms of chocolate syrup.

If one child runs out quickly, then he/she is out of luck.  There are no food stamps/coupons/bargains to be made with the government (yeah, that's me again).  Until next payday that is.  The government does not care if your body mass requires more chocolate milk than the next body. 

Wait.  Is this socialism or just good old fashioned dictatorship?  Maybe a little of both? 

Although, if I'm being honest here, I probably would agree to extra toiling in the fields in exchange for an extra bottle of chocolate syrup.  But make no mistake, there will be toiling.

Also, all bets are on Andy running out of chocolate syrup first.  That kid loves his Hershey's.