Posted on 12/21/2007 9:58:56 AM PST by WesternCulture
Officials at a prison in Vänersborg (Sweden) have confiscated boxes of chocolates bought by the inmates to celebrate Christmas.
As the chocolates contained traces of alcohol, management became concerned that the yuletide celebrations might get a little out of hand.
With the festive season approaching, prisoners at the Brinkeberg facility in western Sweden submitted a wish list to the jail authorities.
Seeing no harm in it, staff took the inmates' money and went out to buy 25 boxes of Marabou's tasty Aladdin chocolates to help brighten up a Christmas spent behind bars.
But management saw the matter differently.
"They are not allowed to drink alcohol in the prison, and that includes rum and raisin," prison inspector Karin Eriksson told newspaper GT.
Eriksson felt there was a risk of intoxication if one of the inmates managed to get their hands on all the chocolates containing strong spirits.
But a spokesman for Marabou's owner, Kraft Foods, could hardly believe his ears on hearing that the prisoners had been deprived of their goodies.
"Really? No, you're having me on," Anders Carne told GT.
When he realized it was no joke, Carne worked out that there were eight chocolates with a dash of alcohol in each Aladdin box. Further calculations revealed that an inmate would have to eat 32 such chocolates in order to consume the equivalent of a single shot of Christmas spirits.
"Goodness, what an effort it would be," he said.
In international IQ comparisions, Scandinavians traditionally perform very well (together with Germans, Jews and the Japanese).
Being Swedish myself, I’m not surprised. Many of our chefs might speak in ways trifle unintelligible and several of our women might be blonde, but few Swedish women are ‘blondes’ and Scandinavian engineers, physicians and entrepreneurs aren’t exactly lagging behind. Futhermore, our chefs have won an impressive amount of international awards.
On the other hand, there are morons everywhere. In fact, I spot them wherever I go in my country. I’d even like to say I’ve developed a sixth sense for this.
“I see stupid people”.
The first thing I wondered is how many chocolates one would have to eat to get *drunk*.
Much as I love chocolate, I just couldn't imagine eating enough to be a problem all at once.
Especially for a man.
And they say waterboarding is torture. THIS is torture.
“The first thing I wondered is how many chocolates one would have to eat to get *drunk*.”
- Something in the region of two truckloads I reckon.
Oh, the HUMANITY!!!!!
“I think the sugar buzz would be more worrisome than the alcohol buzz!”
- Yes, probably.
This has got to be one of the most ridiculous things I’ve ever heard of in my entire life - and I’m 38 years old.
Few of the chocolates in the classic ‘Aladdin’ box even contain TRACES of alcohol.
I started plundering Aladdin boxes at the age of 2 (my parents possess photographic evidence hereof), but never have I been even modestly inebriated by doing so. I seriously doubt a 250 lb Swedish biker differs much in this respect.
We never eat fruitcake because it has rum
And one little bite turns a man to a bum.
Can you imagine a sorrier sight
than a man eating fruitcake until he gets tight.
We never eat cookies because they have yeast
and one little bite turns a man to a beast
can you imagine a sadder disgrace
than a man in the gutter with crumbs on his face.
“We never eat fruitcake because it has rum
And one little bite turns a man to a bum.
Can you imagine a sorrier sight
than a man eating fruitcake until he gets tight.”
- 112 points out of a possible 100!
“We never eat cookies because they have yeast
and one little bite turns a man to a beast
can you imagine a sadder disgrace
than a man in the gutter with crumbs on his face.”
Greetings from Gothenburg, Scandinavia!
Man, I am on a roll today!!! On the Friday sillyness thread I was nominated for post of the year!!!!
“Man, I am on a roll today!!! On the Friday sillyness thread I was nominated for post of the year!!!!”
- Congrats, fellow freeper!
What was the post number??
Gag. I'd puke from the chocolate first.
Post 6
Even being female, my thought is that chocolate is kind of self-limiting; there’s just so much one could take unless they were a hard core chocoholic.
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