Frog Clip
A green frog that can clip to your clothing.
Length: 4cm
K96 n 14
Pizza Oven
Pizza Oven
A pizza oven with certain human characteristics. Open the oven door, and the over will hand you a pizza!
Length: 3cm
Height: 2.5cm
K98 n 62
Pirate Island
Pirate Island
An island with palm tree, dock and shack. Captained by a marooned pirate.
Island Length: 7cm
Pirate Height: 2cm
K99 n 50
Babybel vs. Kinder Eggs – Babybel Wins!
An excellent piece (though with a flawed conclusion).
If you love chocolate, than you MUST also love cheese (vegans excluded). Therefore, you MUST follow: The Canadian Cheese Man
I was shuffling through the refrigerator this morning when I noticed some Babybel. My children like these little cheeses and why not? They are the cheese world’s version of a Kinder Egg but with a tasty edible cheesy surprise inside.
For the benefit of my blog readers in the United States – I must digress for a minute. Kinder Eggs are sold all over the world EXCEPT the United States. That is because in 1983 the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act prohibited embedding “non-nutritive items” in confections.
Here is a photo collage to illustrate the Kinder Egg.
The only problem with the Kinder Egg is that the cheap plastic toy inside only provides fun for about 5-10 minutes then it is relegated to the junk pile and ultimately disposed.
The marketing people at the Babybel Company have done a great job with the design of their cheese packaging…
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Gnome Puzzle (Masons)
Gnome Puzzle (masons)
Stone mason gnomes, hard at work.
9.7cm x 6.7cm
Ferrero D 92
As a fun aside: on the back of this puzzle I found the following drawing (my older brother must have made).
scribbling on back of puzzle
The writing says: “Home for the Mentally Disabled” and “Churchill School”
The other scribbling is probably from me saying “Eli (my older brother) is Drunk”
Pony Kicking Farmer in the Ass
Pony Kicking Farmer
A pony/horse kicking a farmer in the ass. Push the horse’s head, the leg pops back and kicks the farmer.
Turn the farmer around for a more brutal kick.
Farmer Height: 3.5cm
Horse Length: 5cm
K96 n 106
Gnome with Frog Chariot
gnome with frog chariot
A gnome riding in a boot chariot, with two harnessed frogs. When you push the chariot, the frogs hop.
Length: 4.5 cm
K98 n 108
*News* The Secrets of the Kinder Egg-maker
Full article from The Economist
July 12, 2011
Taking a look deeper into Fererro, and some of the laws banning Kinder Surprise from the USA
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