A Little Bathroom Humor: Caramels From Hell2

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I have one thing to say to Shanghai’s western supermarket chain City Shop: Fuck You.

Trying to satisfy my sweet tooth, I wandered into their Shanghai Centre branch the other day in search of a little snack.  Not liking chocolate, I usually try to find caramels.  More often than not, though, the shop doesn’t have any stocked, so I’m forced to get something else.  But today, I was too excited seeing this little package of the sweets I like so much, next to all the other chocolate confections and bars on the shelf.

I literally ripped open the bag and starting shoveling them down.

A few hours passed, and my stomach started rumbling – but not from hunger.  I couldn’t figure out what had upset my stomach, but something told me I should look again at the bag of caramels I had purchased.

Well, everything was in German, but underneath the Chinese label, I saw a little bit of English peaking through.  After I tore off that label, I could not believe what was written in bold English text:

Excessive consumption may produce laxative effects.

WHAT?!

Apparently these weren’t any caramels, but instead were an “energy reduced dietetic dairy” sweet that causes, well…you know.

Why wouldn’t these be put with the other products of its kind, say the aisle with medical things?  These were literally front and center of the CANDY shelf.  True, I should have paid a little more attention to what I was buying, but it seems insane to me that they would put this in the middle of other candies (that don’t have the same effect…).  The result of this mix up was much worse than mistakenly buying salt instead of sugar.

Dear City Shop:  Thanks for my sleepless night last night.  Please immediately put these “sweets” with other products of its kind, or at least with other bathroom materials, and nowhere near actual candies.  Thanks.