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A surprise, a toy, and some chocolate!
Despite really badly dubbed commercials I still on occasion buy kinder surprise despite being the wrong side of 25. Everyone knows at near fifty pence the damn things are a complete rip off but I still buy them. The thing is though. I peel away the foil. I demolish the chocolate in a matter of seconds. I pop open the yellow and orange (remember when they used to be all yellow? and when the orange half meant you'd got the crappy promotional model frog or hippo or whatever?) container that no doubt will later be used as an amusing projectile until on half gets lost behind the couch.
What do I find?
Well that's the surprise isn't it. No surprises that it'll be a few cheap pieces of plastic tat that go together to make a plane or a car or something, and that will then be placed in a draw or on a monitor to collect dust for a few weeks before it finally gets binned. That's no surprise. I like making the crappy little plastic models and I guess that's the whole point behind kinder surprise. It is for me at least.
That's why I find myself getting incredibly narked off when I pop open the plastic pod and find - A cardboard jigsaw.
I hate those jigsaws. You can tell as soon as you get the prize pod out of the chocolate that something is wrong. You squeeze the card stuffed pod and the over crammed thing is reluctant to open, like it was created to bring joyous plastic rubbish for you to make, but it has been soiled with cardboard jigsaw filth and now it doesn't want to see the pain of your face when you find out you've been robbed.
The plastic hippos and frogs aren't much better. I want something I can make, something I can transform from plastic rubbish into plastic rubbish cement truck.
It even happened at easter once. I got a giant kinder egg with a giant toy in it and what was it? A sylvester cuddley toy. Pants.
I swapped it for something better.
That kind of brings me round to the point of this post which is . . .
What's the best or worst thing you've ever found in a kinder egg?
I need to get out more.
Despite really badly dubbed commercials I still on occasion buy kinder surprise despite being the wrong side of 25. Everyone knows at near fifty pence the damn things are a complete rip off but I still buy them. The thing is though. I peel away the foil. I demolish the chocolate in a matter of seconds. I pop open the yellow and orange (remember when they used to be all yellow? and when the orange half meant you'd got the crappy promotional model frog or hippo or whatever?) container that no doubt will later be used as an amusing projectile until on half gets lost behind the couch.
What do I find?
Well that's the surprise isn't it. No surprises that it'll be a few cheap pieces of plastic tat that go together to make a plane or a car or something, and that will then be placed in a draw or on a monitor to collect dust for a few weeks before it finally gets binned. That's no surprise. I like making the crappy little plastic models and I guess that's the whole point behind kinder surprise. It is for me at least.
That's why I find myself getting incredibly narked off when I pop open the plastic pod and find - A cardboard jigsaw.
I hate those jigsaws. You can tell as soon as you get the prize pod out of the chocolate that something is wrong. You squeeze the card stuffed pod and the over crammed thing is reluctant to open, like it was created to bring joyous plastic rubbish for you to make, but it has been soiled with cardboard jigsaw filth and now it doesn't want to see the pain of your face when you find out you've been robbed.
The plastic hippos and frogs aren't much better. I want something I can make, something I can transform from plastic rubbish into plastic rubbish cement truck.
It even happened at easter once. I got a giant kinder egg with a giant toy in it and what was it? A sylvester cuddley toy. Pants.
I swapped it for something better.
That kind of brings me round to the point of this post which is . . .
What's the best or worst thing you've ever found in a kinder egg?
I need to get out more.
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The 'Beunos' are okay. The Chocolate Egg and 'Surprise' is incredibly cheap crap, like Lidls, I suppose.
Who likes chocolate cake with cream. I do *put hands up* yummy
I use to collect kinder suprise (free toys) will that was back then. I still have these urge to buy one, but something tells me it wouldn't be great being seen. "Oh look a puzzle, yeppeh" I'm so happy now (just joking). Nowadays I'm into smarties, you have to love it or hate it, but I love it; it's just when eating too much it will make me puke. There something in these sweet or choc that makes you addicted like coke.
I had some sort of deformed Kinder Surprise Pudding thing on holiday.
Grix Thraves wrote:
> 3) Buy a Kinder Egg with a debit card
Ahahahahahaha.
The look on the cashiers face is priceless.
> 3) Buy a Kinder Egg with a debit card
Ahahahahahaha.
The look on the cashiers face is priceless.
Ineedsleep wrote:
> A Kinder egg? Never had one. Somehow I don't think I'm missing out
> :)
>
> and this was my 3.048 post.
I'm concerned over the decimal point, or at least, confused.
And we have small traditions when coming back from work:
1) If possible, steal a traffic cone
2) Visit Tesco
3) Buy a Kinder Egg with a debit card
Such simple enjoyments.
> A Kinder egg? Never had one. Somehow I don't think I'm missing out
> :)
>
> and this was my 3.048 post.
I'm concerned over the decimal point, or at least, confused.
And we have small traditions when coming back from work:
1) If possible, steal a traffic cone
2) Visit Tesco
3) Buy a Kinder Egg with a debit card
Such simple enjoyments.
Simon Says wrote:
>
> Are those things any good?
Only if you're about 6 years old...
..and come to think of it, it would be quite impressive for a 6 year old to get the thing working in the first place...
>
> Are those things any good?
Only if you're about 6 years old...
..and come to think of it, it would be quite impressive for a 6 year old to get the thing working in the first place...
I love Kinder Surprise, it's so nice...
A Kinder egg? Never had one. Somehow I don't think I'm missing out :)
and this was my 3.048 post.
and this was my 3.048 post.
pb wrote:
>
> Recently they included on-line suprises too, so you can get a
> surprise when you enter the enclosed code on the Kinder website.
>
> High-tech Kinder eggs, what next?!
Last time I tried that I was "surprised" that the damn thing didn't load up, and when I say surprised, I actually mean I had arrived at a disappointing but largely expected eventuality.
Are those things any good?
>
> Recently they included on-line suprises too, so you can get a
> surprise when you enter the enclosed code on the Kinder website.
>
> High-tech Kinder eggs, what next?!
Last time I tried that I was "surprised" that the damn thing didn't load up, and when I say surprised, I actually mean I had arrived at a disappointing but largely expected eventuality.
Are those things any good?
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