I love love
love product packaging. It is my dream to be the comer upper of unputdownable tins
of soup, washing powder cartons and stock cube packets. If I had the energy to
make a portfolio, apply for art school and spend three years being told what to
do, I would become one. Until then, I will have to make due with drooling over
the lovely things I see in the shops.
And
drooling I was, when coming across this beautifully designed brand of
chocolate: Mitzi Blue. I spent an absolute age trying to pick the one flavour I
was allowing myself to buy. (The steep price was the only thing holding me back. Oh, and my ever so slowly increasing weight.) I went for the Schweinstrauben (pigs' grapes), with a funky little drawing of
piggies clustered together as a bunch of grapes. It contained milk chocolate,
grapes and the unknown ingredient of 'Grammelnougat'. Never in a million years
did I think there were actually piggies in there. But there are, in the shape
of tiny nuggets of caramelized pork scratchings. And they taste good too (the
piggies).
