One person (funnily enough it's not Tea) on here will probably recognise this as I posted it on a site we were both resident on at the time. Or maybe not. I don't know.
Anyway. I got up on 3rd dec 05, had a cup of tea and opened my calendar. Yes I am a big kid.
I pulled out the shape featured below and began to laugh. Mr flibble asked what the heck was the matter... he saw it and also nearly peed himself laughing. OK, so we both have the same sense of humour. it's probably one of the reasons our marriage works lol!!
I know in all logic it was meant to be a candle with holly round it, but people: it was obviously a white chocolate penis!!!
So, being the dutiful member of the public that I am, I photographed it and wrote this letter to Nestlé; again this was in 2005 so I was pregnant at the time:
Dear Nestlé customer services,
I am writing to you as a concerned parent-to-be. My husband purchased a milkybar advent calendar for me as I am 7 months pregnant and craving white chocolate. I have always been a big fan of milkybar and enjoy its creaminess regularly. However, the usual advent shapes in this year's calendar appear to have gone a little awry. The moulds in which the chocolate is formed appear not to have been cast very well, leaving lots of the shapes ambiguous, even slightly disturbing at times. It is only the fourth of December, but I've already had some fairly deformed wise men, two round blobs I assume are baubles, a splodge that appears to have antlers so I suppose it could be a reindeer, and one other shape which I am writing to tell you about.
I refer you to the photograph below taken of the shape I found behind door number 3.
I know that in all sensible minds, this should be a candle decorated like a Christmas table centrepiece... but take a look at it and try imagining what else it could be. You have to admit, it does look remarkably like male genitalia. The more one looks, the more it appears to be genitalia.
I think you can understand why my husband and I had a laughing fit when I opened it. It looks like a novelty chocolate from somewhere like Ann Summers.
This has been caused by the mould it was made in; in short the plastic advent calendar liner.
Frankly, despite the hilarity that ensued, had this been my child's advent calendar I would not have been comfortable feeding this to her. This would have caused much upset on her part and therefore made me write a much angrier letter.
I felt I needed to bring this to your attention as my husband and I surely can't be the only people to see this shape in another light.
Yet again I want to thank you for my many years of chocolate eating joy and let you know that despite this I do intend to finish the calendar and see what else it brings up. It has started to bring a little interest into my day.
Yours sincerely
Mrs. E. Oliver
Ps: please bring back an actual human Milkybar Kid, the cartoon one scares me. His eyes are too big. The real kid was always a great role model for kids with glasses. As a specky child I looked up to him.
I was amazed they wrote back! their reply said they'd look into the mishap; but for xmas 06 and 07 there were still candles in the milkybar advent calendar, and they still looked like penises. mind you, they do seem to have taken my comments about the milkybar kid on board so there's a start.
