Just got back from Stockholm and I’ve got to say that Arlanda airport was a real eye-opener for me. Not only has it been declared an official ‘Love Airport’, it is a home to a selection of very weird products.
There are the ‘Plopp‘ and ‘Japp‘ chocolate bars – one sounding unappetising, the other a little racist.
Moose salami with the testes of O.P.Anderson.
And then these tea bag holders featuring various world leaders, called DemocraTEA.
The set includes Obama, of course, as well as European leaders Berlusconi, Merkel, Sarkozy and Putin. How ‘democratic’ Berlusconi and Putin are is a matter of debate. And why there isn’t one of K Rudd, one of the few world leaders to avoid a recession, I’ll never know.
Even more bizarre, there isn’t a British leader. Birthplace of parliamentary democracy and they don’t even get a tea bag holder!
My theory is the Swedish manufacturers found themselves in a bit of a quandary. A Gordon Brown tea bag holder would put people off drinking their tea. And with the polls ahead of the recent election pointing towards a hung parliament they didn’t want to risk making a David Cameron one.
Now there’s a Lib/Con coalition they probably don’t know whether to go with Nick Clegg or David Cameron.
They could put each one on a different side.
Trouble is, no one would be able to tell them apart.
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I’ve been buying the plopp chocolate bars for years, just as presents to give away as cheap jokes which I’m sure you’ll understand if you’ve ever tasted one!
Lol, especially about the plopp bars. Sorry. While we’re on the subject of politics maybe Rudd hasn’t avoided a recession in Australia, just delayed it. Time will tell…