A colour photograph of stacked cases of mass-market, packaged Stollen — a traditional German fruit bread or Christmas cake covered in snow-like icing sugar — on display in the aisle of an Edeka grocery store in Germany in early September of 2023. The stollen are in open-topped, flat, cardboard boxes that are piled, seemingly, a dozen high signalling the expected demand for winter holiday items in late summer.
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