Growing up when my family was in Michigan, my dad worked for a
company called GE. The thing I remember most about this was that he would have
to take work trips to Germany and bring us presents when came back. I remember
specifically a blue plastic sunglasses case that came from the company but the
best thing about him traveling was the chocolate. Chocolate in general is
amazing but ask a kid Katie (my sis) and I loved the Kinder Schokolade Surprise
Eggs. For example:
As you can see they were just a really tasty egg shaped piece of
chocolate that had a toy or game of some sort inside. Katie and I loved them.
Yet as we got older (and Dad stopped traveling back and froth to Germany) they
were harder to find. Apparently this is because they are technically illegal to
import into the United States for reasons I fail to fully understand. Thus my
childhood dreams of Kinder Eggs were slowly crushed.
Jump forward to Madrid, 2016. Living here obviously means that
shopping is going to be different than it was at home. New stores, different
brands, and unique products.Today I went in search of some essentials--laundry
detergent, toothpaste, wine--at a store my Señora suggested. The place is called El Corte Inglés and seems to have literally everything you can think of in one giant building. Think Walmart, your local meat market, and a high end outlet mall under one roof. I´m not kidding about the last part--I literally could have bought a Coach purse in the same building as my groceries.
On my way out I noticed a whole end cap full of foreign chocolate, including the Kinder brand! Instantaneous excitement! I'm not in the US... do they have them? Yes! They looked slightly different than what I remembered but there they were, a whole row of egg shaped chocolates just waiting to fulfill my childhood dreams.
Being the American I am I went home to document the entire experience:
Kinder Joy: exactly what I felt about finding you old friend.
Wait. Confusion. This isn't chocolate. What the heck did I buy?
This is not what I remember at all! What about the cool yellow plastic container? Or the actual chocolate?
Ok. Not what I wanted but it's still chocolate.
Annnd the toys were cooler when I was 8 but...
That doesn't mean I wasn't going to play with it! (And Caitlin that comment is totally your fault!)
August 16th 2016
On my way out I noticed a whole end cap full of foreign chocolate, including the Kinder brand! Instantaneous excitement! I'm not in the US... do they have them? Yes! They looked slightly different than what I remembered but there they were, a whole row of egg shaped chocolates just waiting to fulfill my childhood dreams.
Being the American I am I went home to document the entire experience:
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