Notes from the Flipside: The Streets of Taipei

Jan 04, 2012 22:57


The first leg of the flight was simple enough. Long, but simple. We tried to sleep, and succeeded here and there.

When we arrived at Narita, we were greeted with some awkward news: our flight to Taipei was cancelled. Tricky, that. As we learned later, it had had mechanical troubles with the landing gear, and had turned back to Taiwan halfway to ( Read more... )

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alarivana January 4 2012, 15:40:43 UTC
It is illegal to import Kinder chocolate (at least the eggs) to the states. Something about it being inedible and then edible and then inedible? I dunno...

it is kind of absurd to phrase it as "why don't they have Kinder in the states?" because that's the German word Kinder, meaning children. We do in fact have children, we just don't make special chocolate for them and then call it that. On a vaguely related note, it's not very good chocolate and consequently, in Switzerland (where I have actual experience it's unusual for adults to eat it.

Kinderschokolade is one of the reasons I was convinced, as a child, that Germans are very strange.

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