You may have heard a news story out of Scotland this week about “Willy’s Chocolate Experience.”
Advertisements for the event featured gorgeous illustrations reminiscent of Roald Dahl’s “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory” and promised “an immersive world where chocolatey dreams become reality in a spectacle you’ve never experienced before.”
That last part turned out to be true — because when parents who’d paid $45 a ticket drove their children as much as two hours to reach the event, they found nothing but a nearly empty warehouse with a couple of giant plastic mushrooms and a deflating bouncy castle, where each child was given two jelly beans and a half cup of lemonade.
So it was indeed something they had never experienced before, assuming they’d never before experienced spending $45 for a couple of jelly beans.
Unfortunately, the story doesn’t end there,…
