[Sca-cooks] Australian Torture toys - a gift to Olwen (OOP - some food content)

[Olwen the Odd]

Ok Mari, I said it only took three of us (one is a Baron) to figure out it
wasn't a "mooing" thing and five minutes to get the egg thing open.  Then we
each put together parts of the gecko who now rides on the dashboard of my
car.  Great fun was had by all!  I havent' opened the other one yet.  We are
slowly eating our way through the candy and I'm saving it for last.

Olwen who can't wait for Roo Poo

>Hi All -
>
>Well - I've just heard back from Olwen that the Parcel that I sent her has
>indeed arrived.
>
>It contained the usual bundle of stuff - strange Australian sweets
>(timtams;
>caromello koalas etc); a copy of a book; some Aussie coins for Stocking
>fillers and one or two Yowies...
>
>Not realising that the US doesn't have such things as Kinder Surprise eggs
>or their own equivilent, I failed to include a "How to" instruction booklet
>for the Yowies, resulting in a *very* amusing recounting of Olwen's Trials
>&
>Tribulations in finding out just what IS inside a Yowie....
>
>To explain - A Yowie is a shaped & hollowed chocolate - sort of like a
>chocolate easter egg.  Inside it is a small oval plastic egg.  This
>contains
>the small parts of plastic that are constructed into a small replica of an
>Australian Native animal or reptile - and a tiny information sheet on it
>(very much a "Learn through play" toy).
>
>Should I mention that the small plastic egg has a couple of small holes in
>the ends (leading some people to think it's a toy that "Moos" or "chirps")
>and that it's also very hard to open..... <wicked grin>
>
>So in the future - if you ever receive a strange parcel from the Strange
>Downunder - from the even Stranger Mari - please refer to the above as
>"operating" instructions :-p
>
>Mari
>(oh - and as I've now discovered a local stockist of "Roo Poo" (local
>variation of "Armadillo Droppings") they'll also be shipped along :-p


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