Ever since Charlie Bucket found the golden ticket-laced candy bar in the gutter, chocolate and dirty,shameful, dastardly deeds (snitching your co-worker’s kit kat, sweet talking girl scouts) have been inevitably linked.
The price of pure chocolate candy pleasure was clearly in the forefront of French Air Hostess Mathilde Epron’s mind when she decided to dig through the trash for a candy wrapper she had thrown away two hours earlier, only to discover she did indeed have the kit kat wrapper with the winning code that would allow her to win a competition to fly into space. “What rubbish!” you cry. Well, yes. But it also happens to be true.
In a real life twist Roald Dahl himself couldn’t conjure, a Nestle spokesperson confirms hygienically-adventurous Epron will be boarding a Rocketplane XP aircraft to an altitude of 100 km and allow five minute of “fizzy lifting” weightlessness, along with four other passengers. She will receive four days astronaut training in Oklahoma City before becoming blasting off.
Not only is this trashmonger being rewarded for her rubbish-wrangling with a trip to space, but we recently heard a confession from a male writer who admitted to eating chocolate pudding skin out of the trash. What are your views on the subject of eating errmm, gently used chocolate candy? Weigh in below!
July 17th, 2008 at 4:18 pm
Charlie Bucket didn’t actually find the bar in the gutter, he found some money and he bought the winning bar with it.
As for dumpster diving for fudge, I’m against it! Rooting through trash is for raccoons, identity thieves, and bindle-carrying hobos!