This is bizarre and awesome: Cadbury has erected a giant billboard at Dundas Square in Toronto, Canada. The billboard has a gigantic Cadbury Creme Egg on the lower left side and a box on the upper right, both connected by a seesaw-looking device.

Presumably, as Mother Nature does her thing over the next few weeks with rain and snow, the box will fill with the precipitation, raising the Cadbury egg on the other end of the seesaw to an oversized fan that will eventually hack it open, releasing all the goo inside.

The campaign is entitled “Release the Goo,” and if you go to the website in the link you’ll find Cadbury Creme Egg commercials and can even watch a real-time video of the gigantic egg on the billboard.

Madness or brilliance? Or maybe a little of both?

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3,000 kilograms (approximately 6613 pounds, if my googlefu is working) of chocolate coins are being recalled by by the Canadian Food Inspection Agency. The coins were sold at Costco and Dollar and Bulk stores across Canada and are being recalled after the agency found traces of melamine in them.

The product, called Pirate’s Gold Milk Chocolate Coins made by Sherwood brands, is sold in 840-gram containers containing 240 pieces per container with UPC code 0 36077 11240 7 and the lot code 1928S1. The product is sold nation-wide at Costco stores and may have been sold in bulk packages or as individual pieces at various Dollar and Bulk stores.

For more information consumers can call the CFIA at 1-800-442-2342 / TTY 1-800-465-7735 (8:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. Eastern time, Monday to Friday).

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Anyway, I’ve been very fortunate to have good friends in Canada who don’t mind “goody swaps” every now and then — they send me Coffee Crisps and Aero Bars (as well as an amazing variety of potato chips) and I send them Whatchamacallits and Heath Bars. I’ve been jonesing for another trade but the weather this time of year isn’t very cooperative: the last time we swapped during summer I had to keep my incoming box in the fridge for a day before trying to peel the wrappers off the now-puddled chocolate chunks.

My favorite Canadian candy bar, Coffee Crisp, apparently had a petition going for it not too long ago, urging Nestle to make Coffee Crisp available in the US. They supposedly “won” last year and Nestle agreed to start selling nationwide, but I have yet to see anything in my area and the list of stores is still pretty short.

CanadianFavourites.com has a great variety of treats that they’ll ship nationwide, though shipping is ouchy and requires a minimum order of $30.

Though I could really, really go for a Coffee Crisp right now, I’ll wait a few months before it’s safe to ship back and forth myself — I like providing a friend north of the border with something they’re deprived of too.

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