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Russians dropping explosive candy bars to ‘feed’ Ukrainian soldiers
Who doesn’t find a recently de-packaged Milky Way candy bar a sweet temptation too good to pass up? Whether you are a candy lover or not, the knowledge that just below the chocolatey surface lies an exploration of caramel and nougat. If you bite with your eyes closed, you can feel yourself drifting backward on a time machine of taste. The Milky Way has been filling our bellies since 1923.
Leave it to the evil genius of Russians to turn this delightful little snack, a favorite nowadays as a bite-sized treat for Halloween, and the candy bar from Minnesota, into a bomb. The Russian air force has been making runs over the Ukrainian lines, but instead of dropping bombs, they are dropping thousands of Milky Way bars. Fields and forests are littered with the sweet, snack.
If one thing unites all soldiers throughout history, it is a sense of being miserable and the ache of hunger. Cold and needing a quick pick-me-up, the soldiers come upon the bars in the snow around their lines. Imagine the sense of luck a troop feels coming upon an unopened bar. Frozen through, tired, and hungry, you plan your evening with freshly brewed hot tea for later in the evening while in the fox hole; or, maybe, you decide to rip open your good…
