Have a listen to this puzzling clip of Nelson Mandela that I heard on the World Service last night.
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He says: Together we have the power to change the course of destiny. Big ambitious blondes are needed to deal with the pandemic. But what truly matters are the Small Eggs of Kindness and caring that come from a place of real love and commercial.I’m all for big ambitious blondes, we could all use their help, but what are the Small Eggs of Kindness? Kinder eggs? They do come from the place of real love, Italy, and the brand is owned by Ferrero, undoubtedly a commercially successful company. The ‘rainbow’ mix of dark and white chocolate that the eggs are made from is a lovely metaphor for today’s South Africa and maybe what Nelson means is that the answer to the problems caused by the HIV pandemic in Africa may already be inside the ‘egg’, if we can just figure out how to put it together properly.By the way, did you know that Kinder Eggs are illegal in the USA? Yeah, they are, really.
Kinder Eggs are Italian?!?! Now that’s amazing.
Okay, I’ll bite. You can’t leave that there – WHY are they illegal?
They’re too dangerous. The 1938 Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act prohibits embedding “nonnutritive items” in confections. According to Consumer Reports putting a toy inside a candy egg “sends a mixed message about what is and isn’t edible, and puts younger children at risk.” Not like having stones in cherries, dates and plums then.
Hershey bars are ENTIRELY inedible and therefore perfectly legal – you can’t fault their logic…