When I was a kid my rich cousins used to get all the good show bags. I’m still seething with envy decades later. But discovering that (1) the most popular show bag is a now $3 Bertie Beetle sampler and that, (2) Lindt takes the piss with a HUNDRED AND TWENTY-FIVE DOLLAR offering, makes me feel a little better.
If a terrible chocolate beetle is number one, then obviously a new generation of children is feeling just as poorly done by as I did.
And who the hell drops a tonne plus on a Lindt bag? You can get that stuff discounted most days at Woolies. And you don’t have to pay $50 at the front door to get in.
Weirdo wife loves the Bertie Beetle bag. I remember when they were actually sample bags and free. What were those triangular drink packages you froze?- Sunny Boys? They were the ducks nuts back then and up there..... and the show was the only place in the beef capital that did shoestring fries like Maccas. One a year treat.
The older I get the more certain I am that my parents would stealthily remove the hubba bubba bubble gum from my show bags, then gaslight me that I must have eaten them already. The scars remain.
The bags were never a big thing for me at the Ekka, always just went for the rides, or when I was young the Japanese (with many horrible stereotypes I can't remember) fish pond where you could catch goldfish live and take home.
Sunnyboys were great! A summer staple hereabouts. In the past we have bought a Bertie Beetle showbag and mailed it to my sister in law overseas...she's a bit of a fan. Note - this was the Sydney Easter Show.
Weirdo wife loves the Bertie Beetle bag. I remember when they were actually sample bags and free. What were those triangular drink packages you froze?- Sunny Boys? They were the ducks nuts back then and up there..... and the show was the only place in the beef capital that did shoestring fries like Maccas. One a year treat.
I could never work out how to actually eat/use/drink those cursed pyramid thingies.
those frozen death weapon pyramids. Totally forgot about them!
Those Sunny Boys! Never saw them anywhere else or in any other format.
The annual show in my town was in mid-winter, so like we were going to enjoy a frozen sunny boy anyway? We still did it, though.
The older I get the more certain I am that my parents would stealthily remove the hubba bubba bubble gum from my show bags, then gaslight me that I must have eaten them already. The scars remain.
Speaking as a parent I can confirm that this almost certainly happened.
The bags were never a big thing for me at the Ekka, always just went for the rides, or when I was young the Japanese (with many horrible stereotypes I can't remember) fish pond where you could catch goldfish live and take home.
Sunnyboys were great! A summer staple hereabouts. In the past we have bought a Bertie Beetle showbag and mailed it to my sister in law overseas...she's a bit of a fan. Note - this was the Sydney Easter Show.