Second, I applaud both the generosity of P. J. Harvey, and the diligence of Australian customs, who appear to have got all over-exited with the filming of ‘Border Security’ or something and gone berserk searching for cocaine. Well, they didn’t find any, because it was safely tucked away in the “secret compartment”, so well done Mr Harvey; good job.
To business! The contents of the aforementioned box, in no particular order:
1. Candy House Flying Saucers
“300 pcs x 2 p” reads the label, suggesting that these UFO-shaped sherbet filled wafers are meant to be sold singly for 2 p each? I actually found it almost impossible to stop eating them, and agree with Mr Harvey – the basic of unit of sale should indeed be by the “honking great plastic container”. Luckily they arrived in such a plastic container which was adequate for my needs. Delicious!
10/10
Two asides:
- I was speaking to this Irish bloke at work about these, and he reckoned that they were the ‘unpopular’ sweetie; always the last to be taken in a bag of mixed lollies. I asked PJ about this, and he told me that was rubbish. I concur.
- When I opened the box, a great many of the saucers had been broken open, apparently in a frenzied search for drugs. The customs officials appeared unable to stop at one, because the box was much awash with sherbet. However, I feel pretty much the same about eating them, so I empathise to a degree.
2. Cadbury’s Honeycomb Chocolate
Quite nice. You really can’t go wrong with chocolate, and even less so with honeycomb in it. It didn’t taste quite like Australian honeycomb chocolate though, although this was neither a bad thing nor a good thing. Just different. You say tomato, I say tomato, etc., although obviously this lyric loses something in print.
8/10
3. Fox’s Caramel Rocky
Very nice, these. Chocolate biscuits with wafer and caramel, very much like Australia’s Caramel Crowns, a favourite biscuit of mine. I don’t have much to say about these, except they were very nice, and I ate the whole pack very quickly indeed. In fact, the only thing that stopped me from scarfing the whole lot in one go was that I had to stop every now and then to eat more Flying Saucers.
9/10
So that’s pretty much it! Thank you again, and (hopefully, once I get my act together) there will be a box of similarly high quality fare heading to the UK soon.