Lidl's have stopped shipping-in their lovely Favorina chocolate advent calendars of which there was always a choice of three, one girly kids one, one blokey kids one and one traditional one with a sort of 'cheap Christmas card' scene with Christmassy and/or religious overtones, which was the one I always got, each window (are they windows, or doors?) had a different chocolate shape, there were the correct 24 windows and the chocolate was lovely!
Last one from 2016
Last year they started sourcing them from
within the UK (Kinnerton) and while
the chocolate was OK, it was UK-okay if you know what I mean, not proper
chocolate at all, and worse - all the boxes were younger kids TV or book/comic
character tie-ins, so this year I paid an extra quid for a Thornton's one, hoping it would at least taste better.
No proper figurals this year
It's got 25 doors (are they doors, or
windows?) which is sacrilege ('Bread & Circus' - "Give the proles an extra doorwindow!"), only six designs
and the chocolate tastes like Cadbury's Dairy
Milk which I've never liked, vegetable-fatty, sugar-gritty, shite.
I know it's frivolous, but there's a point
- like housing, like prisons, like wages, like benefits, like the roads,
military procurement, education (funding and policing) local governance,
banking, tribunals, the toy trade, manufacturing, fishing, mental-health, pensions,
policing - pretty-much any aspect of public life you care to mention; the crappifying
of chocolate advent calendars is a symptom of something greater; that we are going
backwards.
We are going downhill, we've ceased to
improve, progress isn't and we've started to visibly, tangibly, actually degrade
- as a nation, we are on the slide. 38-years of Thatcherite-Reganomic policy
has left us divided, devoid of ideas and without a pot to piss in and pushing
ahead with Trumpundbrexit won't do
anything more than accelerate the regression. So endeth the message of hope for 2018!
Finishing on a lighter note, the one on the
left is a penguin in a scarf - if you're wondering.
While the one on the right ended this
way-up after I'd wrestled it from the tray and I momentarily thought - why have
I got a whale-plane from the Wacky Races
in my advent calendar?
2 comments:
To put is another way, we are "going to hell in a hand-basket. The all-mighty Molech our new savior.
Yes Jan . . . if only it was a Games Workshop Molech to which you were referring and not the biblical reference I fear you make!
H
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