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

Ted Eisenstein Alban at socket.net
Fri Nov 30 16:19:12 PST 2001


>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>

My Heavens. . . I have _got_ to get some of these for friends when I
go Down Under next time (one hopes, April, for First Crown. . .)
Question, though: does the package give any indication as to which
animal/reptile is inside, or is it catch as catch can? (So to speak.)

Alban



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