When I was young and sweet and innocent I used to believe stuff. Now I am far less gullible, cough, but back then, well, I wasn’t always sure what was real and what was pretend.
For example, I remember watching a programme where a Chinese Dragon – you know, the fabric kind – ate a young boy. I really, truly wasn’t sure if I’ve just witnessed a kid being munched. Even though it’s quite likely I was watching Blue Peter or some other equally benign kids show.
Another example, is that I didn’t think you were ‘allowed’ to read the magazine ‘Just 17′, until you WERE 17, so I felt like a bit of a rebel when I read it at 16.
I know…
It’s sad.
But it brings me nicely to this. Ignore everything up to o7.29 minutes, in fact, forward it to there if you can (Jim Davidson, shiver). Then watch it to 07.50.
It looks nice right? But it wasn’t for the children. The children were not to be told. They couldn’t have it. How mean is that? And then, they stopped making it. So when I grew up, I never got to taste it. How mean is THAT?
So firstly, I would love to know what you believed when you were no’ but a wee sprog?
And secondly, did you ever taste Chambourcy REAL Chocolate Mousse, and if so, was it as heavenly as that voice makes it sound?
And did it make your pupils dilate and your lips go all pouty or did you just scoff it down?
I NEED to know.
(This post is sponsored by chocolate. Just chocolate in general, because it is everywhere and I cannot escape it.)
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March 29th, 2010 at 4:55 pm
Didn’t things seem so much more scary then, our children are exposed to things that would have me hiding behind cushions when I was little.
Have they really stopped making those mousses? I’m sorry but I’m sure I’ve had one in the past…but can’t remember what it was like. Heavenly probably, like most chocolate mousses. ;0)Actually maybe you can get them abroad, that may be where I’ve had them?
March 29th, 2010 at 6:06 pm
Yes, I remember those chocolate mousses and they WERE delicious. I don’t remember the dilation and pouting, though.
March 29th, 2010 at 11:45 pm
I remember the advert, never had one. I was a child!
March 30th, 2010 at 1:13 am
ummm chocolate mouse…damn you woman, now I’m going to have to go the shop….
March 30th, 2010 at 7:26 am
OMG, I LOVED Chambourcy chocolate mousse, It was amazing (or thats how I remember it!) However the only reason my pupils dilated was because of the woman in the advert. She is the EVIL one from Wham’s last christmas video, who did the dirty on George Michael ( who I was in love with!),I believed he was going to come to my school and declare undying love for me! We all know what happened next, sigh. I never got over it. Thank goodness I had chambourcy mousse to get me through, hehe.
March 30th, 2010 at 10:16 am
I remember the ad and the chocolate. My parents obviously dumped me in front of the telly with a load of mousse and left me to get on with it.
March 30th, 2010 at 11:15 am
When I was little my mother used to buy us ice cream cones—just the cones, mind you—empty, without any ice cream inside. She figured it was cleaner and cheaper and we would not know the difference. And I was 4 years old before I looked at her cone and then back at mine and said, “Why does your cone have something in it?” And my mother looked at my father and said, “Darn. She noticed.” And from that point forward my brother and I got ice cream in the cones. Huge difference!
March 31st, 2010 at 2:20 pm
I always believed that when I grew up I’d eat nothing but chocolate cake at every meal, always have red-painted fingernails, and install a moving staircase in my house. Only the first one has come true…