Badvertising: Kinder Surprise

By C J Davies on Wednesday, May 7, 2008 at 11:00am4 Comments


Digg this!   


Everyone likes Kinder Surprise – the fiddly wrapper, the insubstantial chocolate, the crap toy that you’ll either get bored of within thirty seconds or choke to death upon (thereby becoming a playground urban myth for many a century to come, just like that boy everyone ‘knew’ who swallowed a biro lid).

Why, then, did the people behind the 1980s advertising campaign for this children’s favourite decide on this monstrosity? Christ almighty – hecklerspray was lucky enough never to have seen this as a kid, but if we had it would’ve a) put us off Kinder Eggs for life, and b) psychologically devastated us until the day we died.

Come to think of it – it’s actually just done both.

4 Comments »

Leave a comment!

Add your comment below, or trackback from your own site. You can also subscribe to these comments via RSS.

You can use these tags:
<a href="" title=""> <abbr title=""> <acronym title=""> <b> <blockquote cite=""> <cite> <code> <del datetime=""> <em> <i> <q cite=""> <strike> <strong>

This is a Gravatar-enabled weblog. To get your own globally-recognized-avatar, please register at Gravatar.

Celebrity Gossip

Movie Gossip

TV News

Music News

Weird News

Sports News