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to want to call the Daily Mail with this scoop?

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gramercy · 17/12/2009 12:12

I can't believe this one.

Dd's school Christmas party today. "We're going to play the cutting up the chocolate game where you have to wear a scarf and gloves" she says. "Great - what fun!" I reply.

"I'm not doing it" states dd grumpily. "It's not going to be chocolate. It's going to be bananas."

Bananas??!! please don't tell me the school is now trying to sneak in a "five a day" or a "snack swap" theme into the end of term party.

That school... it's killing me.

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kreecherlivesupstairs · 17/12/2009 12:14

Brilliant. In our Brownie pack we occasionally play a game that involves a bar of chocolate and a knife and fork. How many complaints did we get. Too many.

diddl · 17/12/2009 12:14

Oh my that´s sad!

dinoroar · 17/12/2009 12:18

They would get complaints from parents re choc I imagine. They can't win either way.

It's really sad, they should have the choc!

AgentZigzagDoingAYuleLog · 17/12/2009 12:19

Cutting up the big bar of choc with a knife a fork used to be the best bit of Christmas parties (apart from playing postmans knock )

How miserable are they??

Go on, get yourself down and ranting to the DM

potplant · 17/12/2009 12:23

Cutting up chocolate with a knife and fork? I have never heard of this - what kind of party game is it?

Kaloki · 17/12/2009 12:26

I used to love that game! I'd forgotten all about it!

MrsSantaChemist · 17/12/2009 12:26

You have a certain amount of time to put on a hat, scarf and gloves, and then cut bits off a chocolate bar with a knife and fork. Any chocolate you manage to cut off, you get to eat.

It was loads of fun

I'd just eat the banana without the knife and fork in protest.

AgentZigzagDoingAYuleLog · 17/12/2009 12:28

Hehe potplant, you have to cut up a bar of choc with a knife and fork and eat what you can get off. Nothing more to it, we were easily amused in the 1970's

MaggieAnFiaRua · 17/12/2009 12:30

ofgs, you're over analysing. if kids didn't know that way back in the 70s and 80s mum used to play this, but wiht a 200gm bar of dairy milk they'd still enjoy the game.

i think it's a good idea. i can get chocolate in to the children all the time. that's no challenge.

AgentZigzagDoingAYuleLog · 17/12/2009 12:31

Does that mean pass the parcel is out cos it's not enviromentally friendly?

MrsMattie · 17/12/2009 12:34

Sounds like a bloody weird great game. I have never heard of it before, though.

Aent - Pass the parcel was ruined ages ago when people started putting a little gift between each sheet of wrapping papper. What happened to the good old days, when one kid went home with the prize and everyone else had to just have a raging tantrum suck up the disappointment? Tsk.

MrsMattie · 17/12/2009 12:34

Sorry, Agent

wildfig · 17/12/2009 12:36

I used to love that game. We used to play it with everyone rolling the dice in turn, and when you got a six, you could let rip at the hat, gloves and scarf, and go for the chocolate, which some evil mothers also wrapped up, to make it harder. When someone else got a six, you had to stop - and sometimes it took aaaaages for another six to come up, and the child in the middle would get more and more covered in chocolate as everyone else howled in frustration...

And just think how much bigger the bars of Dairy Milk are now! In my day, a 200g bar was as good as you got. Now you can get a whole kilo... [sighs wistfully]

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gramercy · 17/12/2009 12:36

I suppose it's not just that bananas are healthier than chocolate, it's that they're easier to cut up, thereby doing away with any requirement for dexterity with cutlery or determination.

There was probably a meeting at which it was decided that asking the children to use a knife and fork would exclude those who weren't familiar with such utensils, and the task (game?) was in any case too competitive as a clear winner could be identified (by the chocolate round the mouth).

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potplant · 17/12/2009 12:39

MrsMattie - thank God I'm not the only one. Was starting to think my parents neglected me.

Now I keep all chocolate in the fride, I like it crunchy. Clearly you don't play with a Mars Bar that's been in the fridge?

FolornHope · 17/12/2009 12:40

gramercy
but dont let the FACTS spoil a DM scoop!!

Fibilou · 17/12/2009 12:43

Gramercy, are you the lady that got into trouble over crackers and cheese ?

hatwoman · 17/12/2009 12:51

bananas??? ffs the whole point of the game is that
a. it's difficult
b. it's a yummy treat

they've taken away the two essential components of the game...

don't go to the DM, they'll get their knickers in a twist and conclude that armegeddon is nigh. go the Guardian and suggest they have a newsroom banana and chocolate eating competition. They'll write somthing funny about it in G2 without getting all stressy.

FromGirders · 17/12/2009 12:54

No no no, you're supposed to play it with a marsbar, pref one that's been in the fridge!

FromGirders · 17/12/2009 12:54

Just like potplant said

whoopstheregoesmymerkin · 17/12/2009 12:56

CHILDREN BEING ALLOWED A KNIFE?
ffs sake they might HURT themselves

lolapoppins · 17/12/2009 13:00

Voice of doom, but I still have the scar on my finder where the knife slipped when I was 8! The chocolate was very cold and hard though.

newpup · 17/12/2009 13:01

How about this! A teacher at DD's school told the class there was no santa yesterday!!!!

I mean he told the whole class!

This is a primary school, the day before the end of term before Christmas. He decides to announce to the whole class that santa is not real!!

golgi · 17/12/2009 13:04

Wouldn't the banana get all mushed?

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gramercy · 17/12/2009 13:14

Forget the easier exams - education being dumbed down is clearly demonstrated by the fact that in t'old days it was knife and fork and chocolate but in 2009 it's a spoon and mushy banana.

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