Thursday, November 29, 2007

Kinder Surprise

I've told you how much I love Joe Caputo's grocery store. Let me tell you how much. I dunno if you've read between the lines here, but Chris and I were seriously considering a move to Portland, which is just a wonderful place (now we'll find out if Chris' mom is really reading this blog.) We have 80-85% decided against it, and for Chris the big reasons are because his family and his sports teams are here. For me, the reasons to stay are the theatre scene and the extra-work I've been doing here, the fact that I am a true cold-weather jogger, the job that I love, and Joe Caputo's. Not necessarily in that order. I also just know that my cat wouldn't go poo for the entire three days it might take to get out there, and then he would detonate. He's a nervous poo-er.

So I got to take Ma into Caputo's when she was here, and she loved it, too. In the checkout line, which is always long, I freaked when I noticed this:

Kinder Surprise with Asterix and Obelix

Ma has a degree in French, and she's always loved all things French. When Dave and I were kids, she had Asterix and Obelix hardcover books around the house, which she would generally have to read to us (as they were in French, and I think the Romans spoke in Latin.) The names translate to Asterisk (because he is the small one), and Obelisk (because he is the large one.) Anyway, later on, cartoons of the two appeared on the Disney Channel, if memory serves... And they were hilarious. The cartoon is based on Gaul's resistance to Roman occupation. The Gaul's drink a potion that makes them stronger, all except for Obelix -- who fell in a vat of it as a baby.

Caputo's has a wide selection of not only Italian stuff, but lots of imported food. So I had to grab one of the egg toys, for old times sake. They were little chocolate eggs with a prize inside of "Asterix and the Vikings."

Kinder Surprise with Asterix and Obelix

When you open it, there is a little egg capsule inside the chocolate:

Kinder Surprise with Asterix and Obelix

And inside the egg capsule is a figure and a comic! I was hoping to get Obelix, but I got a Viking. Still neat.

Kinder Surprise with Asterix and Obelix

Le Gaulois en vie long!

8 comments:

  1. I picked up on that Portland vibe.
    I will talk about Kidner Surprise instead.

    When I studied in London there was a commercial for these where the mum tells her children if they are good at the store they can get one thing...but they want both a sweet AND a toy! What's a mother to do? Enter kinder-surprise.

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  2. p.s. that was me, Brooke. I'm tired.

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    1. Brooke Waggoner? Go with Doves! This is my capsule from cholcolate eggg Kinder Surorise!!!!

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  3. Where do you get these capsules?

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    1. I got these at Joe Caputo's in Illinois/Chicago area.

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  4. As all my friends and family know, Crowded House is my favorite band, so if this is a prank it is a particularly cruel one. Unless you never tell me that you're a fake. Then it's a thrill! Thanks!

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  5. Neil Finn suspended me from Wayne High School!

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