Bonn facts...HARIBO!

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- Aku rasa kan...kawan kawan saya di opis ada menjenguk aku punya blog, kerana satu kawan ternampak gambar aku yang ada budak perancis yang memang kawannya jugak! Alahh...macam ni tak boleh la nak "meng-anjing betinakan" orang orang ni! Atau nak cakap siapa cun ke tak cun...tak best la! Macam ni kena berbahasa sikit, atau nak hokkien pun boleh. An chua...anikuan tiu am kong liao lor!

- Eric is arriving today...before that i excited him by telling he will see one of the best looking trainees in Bonn...ME! (hahahahah!!!) He wont be dissapointed...



Remember the chewy gelatine that never actually dissolves in your mouth, which is shaped like a bear and basically, you need to swallow it cuz the darn thing couldnt freakin melt or break down! Yup...obviously through my first line you would know i have no particular liking for it! That damn sweet is called Haribo...rings a bell?

Thats the gelatine rubber alright...siap with a rather bogel (nude) bear, no thanks to the red bow tie!

So last Saturday, part of Liv´s agenda was to visit the Haribo factory cum store. I was like..."you must be kidding"? All the way from Paris...and to visit a gelatine sweet shop? But Amit said that Monika said that "its was a MUST!" It was then i knew that Haribo originated from Bonn...thats the "Bo" in Haribo meant! OOOHHHHHH....goes the jakun thats me!

And off went the Asian Entourage (2 Indians, 1 Phillipina and 1 good looking Malaysian) to the Haribo store, part of me thinking "what the fark am i going there for?". But hey...its part of Bonn, and since i am Bonn...in Bonn, so i shalth not waste this 'sweet' opportunity! (sweet...geddit!?)

Upon reaching the store, i was truly amazed! I was expecting like a factory, for which we can sample some of the sweet rubber (the factory word was from Amit), so obviously the visualising person in me was picturing BIG factory, siap with conveyor belts, how the gelatine is formed etc...but not a freakin small lot the size of big McD restaurant with a playground!

Inside the store...to compensate for the dull looking building, it probably was some kids heaven or something! COLOURFUL habis...sweets, gelatines as usual, the long sugary rubber ppl suck and eat and lick...the sugar coated sweets et al! Gosh, a dentist could cringe at the sight of those enamel destroyers! Such is the franchise of these stuffs, they even got Haribo shirts, caps, towels, pants, thongs, bras...you name it! Even a freakin speed car!

Childrens heaven, Dentists nightmare!

Haribo Merchandise

If you dont like the small ones, how bout the big ones!?

Last but not least, the Haribo Car! Not for sale though!

So here is some Haribo facts...at least people learn something while blogging with the Portuguese Tart.

* HARIBO is a sweets producer, founded in 1920 in Bonn, Germany by Hans Riegel. The name is an acronym for Hans Riegel, Bonn.
The founder died during the Second World War and his son, also called Hans Riegel took over the factory on returning to Germany after the War, and expanded its operations, taking over many local sweet manufacturers in countries all over the world.
Today HARIBO is one of the biggest manufacturers of sweets, namely of fruit gums, liquorice and foam (KNN...sounds poisonous right). There are five factories in Germany and 13 throughout the rest of Europe. There are sales offices in almost every country in Europe as well as in the USA.
Haribo was one of several German companies which is alleged to have employed forced labour in its factories during World War II. Haribo disputes this, and has declined to contribute to an ex-gratia payment made by other German companies to survivors. (Diu...)
Haribo's German catch phrase is "Haribo macht kinder froh / und Erwachsene ebenso", "Haribo makes Kids happy / and adults the same" In English, to preserve the rhyme, it becomes "Kids and grown-ups love it so / the happy world of Haribo" (yeah right, more like "Kids Heaven, Dentist´s Nightmare"!)

* Portuguese Tarts facts on Haribo courtesy of Wikipedia, information at the click of a mouse!


Anyways i did buy some stuffs...but nothing of those weird liquorise or foam...instead got myself some butter cookies with chocolate coatings (was delightful!) and marshmellows (the one where i couldnt find for my farewell BBQ, but berlambak here!). Wait a minute...are marshmellows a type of 'foam'??

Me and my Haribo (the sweets near my left nipple are for deco only, not mine)

So much for a Haribo adventure...the girl from Paris but originally from Phillippines didnt buy anything! Nah beh...