Who left Grandma on the curb? An American allegory. California, July 2022. I was walking down my very residential street one day and saw this tablet of Abuelita brand table chocolate sitting alone, exactly where I photographed it. No other dropped groceries, and they're not sold separately like this. Abuelita means "little grandmother" in Spanish, and it is one of several similar brands of spiced chocolate that, like grandmothers and other elders, are very useful to have around but sometimes forgotten or taken for granted. If you're not familiar with chocolate de la mesa, it's thick tablets of chocolate spiced with cinnamon that can be easily melted into liquid form and added to recipes and boxed chocolate cake mixes, and made into chocolate milk and hot cocoa. #streetphotographycalifornia #abuelita #allegory #eldercare #medicare #streetphotographyinternational