Disappointment calendar

In the 1990s, for several years, I made an Advent calendar for Dau.I and Dau.II. This required printing out two identical pages of 160gsm card covered with 24 randomly scattered rectangles. On the back sheet, I used the rectangles to frame 24 age-appropriate, ironic pictures [ZwartePiet ☻on the 5th; tools 🛠 on the 7th; Rudolf's nose ⬤ on the 9th; a menorah 🕎 on the 15th; a parcel📦on the 24th]. On the front sheet, I cut 3of4 sides of each rectangle with a craft-knife and then covered the whole thing with a holiday themed picture. Dobs of glue were put between the rectangles on the back sheet and especially round the outside edges and the two sheets pressed together. It was shoddy, shonky and crafted with love. Valuing my time at the minimum wage, each calendar was 'worth' ~€60 yoyos. Somewhere, there is an archive of these unique objets d'art for some definitions of Art.

Sometime in the second week of December 2025, there came into our possession a Kinnerton [who? about] Advent Calendar [as L]. I understand that Bluey is a TV doggonality which might be attractive to kids the same age as Dau.I & Dau.II were when I made Advent Calendars for them. Not all modern parents [or aunties?] value their time but some do and and so they buy an Advent Calendar: a snip @ €4.95. The Kinnerton Calendar front has far better production values that my home-made kludges but the rest is deeply disappointing: the 24 (35mm x 40mm) doors cover a 6 x 4 blister pack, each cell of which contains wafer of chocolate [by some definitions of chocolate] the size of a toe-nail. I kid you not, each door hides 1.7g of matter. The total edible part weighs in at 40g or 1½oz in old money.

"Our Safe Nut Promise means that you and your loved ones can enjoy delicious moments reassured that we really care about our products totally nut-safe". In this case, say one moment is < 2 seconds. Then you're paying €5 for ~one minute of  deliciousness. Or €300/hr - suddenly my home-made advent calendar is looking like Value!

Or to put it another way, this food adjacent product retails at €125/kg. More than 2x the price of insect health bars or in other blobwords cheaper than bayleaves but more expensive than nutmeg. 

Ingredients [did we say No nuts? we did in FI DK NO SE as well as English]
Sugar, Vegetable Fats (Palm, Sal, Shea in varying proportions), Dried Skimmed MILK, Dried Whole MILK, Cocoa Mass*,  Emulsifier (Lecithin), Vanilla Flavouring, *Rainforest Alliance Certified.

Fear not! The Blob has your back on Sal Shea Palm vegetable fats. Whatevs, today is Christmas Eve, last door for most Advent calendars!