Kinder bueno
December 12, 2004
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Just as I had done before with the Happy Hippo from Kinder, I ate a Kinder bueno and took a bunch of pictures of it.
It’s a chocolate-coated wafer cookie bar, filled with hazelnut cream and topped with a few dark chocolate swirls. It’s very good, although I could only eat half of it.
So, if you’re interested in taking a look at the pictures I took of this candy bar, just give this link a click, and enjoy!
I know I did. :)
Kinder Bueno is my favorite candy bar of all time. They sell them at the arabic bakery that I used to eat lunch at when I worked in Dearborn and I’d get one with lunch all the time. MMMMM!
Ooh…
They are really, really good. And I’d bet they aren’t US$1.99 at that bakery. hehe.
I think more like 75¢ or $1. I think the bakery I went to had canadian owners or employees because they had all canadian candy there and it was pretty cheap.
i enjoyed one of those tasty treats earlier this week! i found it at the oddest spot: the mobil gas station on woodward south of nine mile in ferndale.
There is a Swedish candy store on 5th avenue in Brooklyn around the corner from my old apartment. I used to buy two of these everyday. They are addictive, and so fluff-like soft and creme filled.
My wife loves those Happy Hippos – we searched through two big shops (one of which was like a warehouse a quarter filled with chocolate) for them and couldn’t find anymore.
I prefer the Kinder eggs myself, although I don’t know if it’s just me, but the toys seem really crappy compared to when I was a kid…
In /my/ day….
Thinking back, I believe that the toys used to be better quality, too. Although I have been surprised by the occasionally especially nifty toy these days.
Both now and when I was little we had to go to Canada to get them. I think that has something to do with the small parts which comprise many of the toys and the US’ regularly litigious soceity… If you look at the bottom of the three-packs of eggs, there is a specific bit about how they aren’t for import to the US.
So, almost every time I go to Canada (it’s only about 45 minutes away) I end up bringing back a tray of 24 Kinder Eggs from Shopper’s Drug Mart or some other grocery store.
Wow, it has been a while since I’ve been to Canada… I really do need to get there, both for some scotch from duty free and candy. And to simply go to the land of the free-er. :D
I don’t think the eggs here say anything about import to the US – it’s not like it’s a great threat for things sold in the UK.
As for ‘scotch’ (we just call it ‘whiskey’, here)… well, when I was in the US last year I took out a bottle of ten year old single malt. There’s places you can go to get bottles that were laid down on the year you were born. Which wouldn’t be that impressive for me, since I’m only 24. ;o) (Oh, and that ten year sold single malt costs about US$35 – not the cheapest around, but I’m told it was a good one. I don’t drink it, myself.)