DAVID ADAMS writes about the odder side of life…
• Like gold with your chocolate? Nestle Japan has reportedly announced it will be selling 500 gold coated Kit Kat fingers later this month to mark its approaching milestone of a million customers at its Chocolatory stores. The bars, each of which is reportedly priced at the equivalent of $US16, will be coated with a thin layer of 24 carat gold. The company will also be raffling off some solid gold versions to those who take up its membership program.
• While we’re talking chocolate, UK chocolate company Mackie’s has advertised it is looking for a “chief chocolate taster”. The successful applicant will be tasked with the job of inventing a new flavour to celebrate the opening of the Scottish company’s new Aberdeen factory. The job will run for a year and applicants, who are required to have a “mouth and tastebuds”, have to apply before 3rd December.
• Accusations of cheating have plagued a competition to find Zimbabwe’s ugliest man with the winner being accused of being too good looking. The winner of the Mister Ugly contest, 42-year-old Mison Sere, is reportedly missing front teeth and sports a range of twisted facial expressions. But others among the 36 competitors have cried foul, saying the man’s ugliness isn’t natural and claimed he was “too handsome” to win. The winner said his critics were “sore losers”.
