There was a parcel in the foyer this morning. I almost passed on it but then decided to check just in case it was mine. It was mine, from my friend Janne.
The parcel was in a nice coloured box, printed with an artsy image but emblazoned with quarantine stickers. This did not bode well. I opened the box with some trepidation.
QUARANTINE STOLE MY CANDY.
What's more, they left the wrapper in the box to taunt me, showing me what I'd missed! However, the wrapper did note that the candy in question was "nougat made with almonds and nuts poured into a real eggshell". This explained the quarantine intervention for "real eggshells" are contraband.
BUT THEY STILL STOLE MY CANDY.
I have the option to send it back to Janne for the modest fee of $42 or have quarantine destroy the egg after 30 days for free. I'm sorry Janne, I just don't think that the candy is worth $42...
2 comments:
I'm officially at a loss of words here. I knew that The Australian Customs is strict, but this??? They quarantined a bunch of chocolate-eggs! There was no suspicious white powder or anything. There really isn't any nuts in the chocolate either, it's just solid chocolate... in a real eggshell.
All that delicious chocolate.... gone forever.
It's the "real eggshell" that's the problem. Don't ask me why, because I don't know. As you know, the delicious apricot chocolates you sent at Christmas got through fine!
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