While we were away recently we decided to pick up a box of cereal to share between us. In the event, I think I was the only one who had any, but never mind... We decided to allow Funsize and Surprise! to choose the cereal between them, and they opted for Coco Pops, and we even treated ourselves to the name-brand box rather than the store's own-brand.
Big mistake.
Opening the box, it turned out that most of the Coco Pops were, in fact, not. Instead, it was a box almost entirely of Rice Crispies, with just enough Coco Pops to turn the milk hint-of-chocolatey.
Needless to say, this is the most horrific of betrayals, and not one that Coco Monkey will be forgiven for a long time.
(I'm reliably informed, on the internet so it must be true, that this was actually a case of production failure. That is, the box of Coco Pops should indeed have been Coco Pops. But I'm also reliably informed, by those same wise heads, that name-brand Coco Pops are now the worst of all Coco Pops.)
#18: "Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy", by John Le Carré
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