BLUFFTON, SC (WTOC) -
Like most of us, Vinnie Ferullo is busier than usual these days. After all, he has added saving the world to his list of daily chores.
"Now I know how Noah felt,'' says Ferullo. "It's not easy.''
The Bluffton retiree does not really believe the world will end on Dec. 21, the last day on the Mayan calendar.
He's just not taking any chances
"The Mayans were the first chocolate lovers,'' he says. "They used chocolate in all their religious ceremonies and state ceremonies.''
So Ferullo is using his Mayan Chocolate to stave off impending global doom, creating these sugary medallions in the form of Mayan gods as an offering of respect and a preservation strategy.
"Eat lots of chocolate before the end,'' he says, "and we should save everybody.''
Ferullo came up with his idea while vacationing in Aruba, with a friend who's a chocolatier, and while sipping pineapple and rum.
"I think,'' says Ferullo, "the pineapple's very creative.''
And he's far from alone in looking ahead to earth's purported end.
An estimated 25 million people worldwide actually believe the Mayans were predicting something with their calendar and didn't simply run out of wall to write it on.
The ultra-paranoid are stockpiling food and weapons, while the insanely wealthy are buying multi-million dollar anti-apocalypse bunkers where they plan to wait out the ruin.
But Ferullo says it could be a quiet world they come back to.
"We're not selling very many,'' he says. "It's going to be a small community when the world ends.''
But if there is a Dec. 22?
"I just hope they elect me king,'' says Ferullo. "That's not very much to ask for saving them.''
And, even if he doesn't, he has given them an excuse on to eat chocolate, which is a fine way to spend the final days of civilization.
Mayan Chocolate is only available online at http://www.mayan2012chocolate.com/.
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