I can’t be entirely certain whether as a child my sense of snobbery had reached its full potential, but I like to thing that these things are often innate. In my opinion, too many Saturday afternoons were spent on the urine-soaked slide of the local McDonald’s playground, being slammed in the jugular in the name of fun and Musical Chairs, and forced to eat packet mix sponge cake in the shape of whatever cartoon character happened to be de riguer at the time—children are fickle.
And the lolly bags! Oh, there were some shockers. One particular mother decided that she would issue celery and carrot sticks in lieu of sugar in the standard-issue colourful plastic bag. Was she some kind of sadist? I’ll tell you what she was: she was a drunk. Only someone whose judgment was heavily impaired by the cooking sherry and whose brain was addled by dehydration would make such a mistake.
Now here are some purveyors of children’s party fare we can get behind. Australian stationery designer, Poppies for Grace have a beautiful range of lolly bags. Sold in sets of 15 for $12.95, they’re made from recycled paper and won’t make the liquorice allsorts taste like polyurethane. Though, kids these days don’t like those, do they? I know I still detest sponge cake. (Former) children can be so cruel.
Published on 19 August 2011 by Agony Uncle