Kinder Happy Hippo is a biscuit/
candy
Candy, also called sweets (British English) or lollies (Australian English
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made by the Italian chocolate and confectionery company Kinder owned by
Ferrero Ferrero (Italian: , Spanish: ) is a surname of Italian (from Piedmont) and Spanish origin that means 'smith', the person who works with iron, in parallel with surnames like Ferraro, Ferrari and Smith.
Notable people with the surname Ferrero inclu ...
.
Taste
The candy consists of a
wafer
A wafer is a crisp, often sweet, very thin, flat, light and dry biscuit, often used to decorate ice cream, and also used as a garnish on some sweet dishes. Wafers can also be made into cookies with cream flavoring sandwiched between them. They ...
biscuit shaped like a
hippopotamus
The hippopotamus ( ; : hippopotamuses or hippopotami; ''Hippopotamus amphibius''), also called the hippo, common hippopotamus, or river hippopotamus, is a large semiaquatic mammal native to sub-Saharan Africa. It is one of only two extan ...
. Inside the crisp hollow biscuit are two flavours of
icing:
milk
Milk is a white liquid food produced by the mammary glands of mammals. It is the primary source of nutrition for young mammals (including breastfed human infants) before they are able to digestion, digest solid food. Immune factors and immune ...
-flavored and
hazelnut
The hazelnut is the fruit of the hazel tree and therefore includes any of the nuts deriving from species of the genus ''Corylus'', especially the nuts of the species ''Corylus avellana''. They are also known as cobnuts or filberts according t ...
cream in the original flavour, milk cream and chocolate cream in the cocoa flavour - similar to a
Kinder Bueno
Kinder Bueno (''Kinder'' is German for "children", ''bueno'' is Spanish for "good") is a chocolate bar and wafer confection made by Italian confectionery maker Ferrero. Part of the Kinder Chocolate brand line, Kinder Bueno is a hazelnut-cream-fi ...
.
"Happy Hippo" were made famous by a series of popular animated commercials featuring a dog and a hippo getting into various situations that generally end in the two sharing a Happy Hippo biscuit. The original light blue Happy Hippo character was created by the French designer
André Roche
André Roche, born in 1952 in France, is an artist, an illustrator and an author of comics and children's books.
Biography
André Roche received a bachelor's degree of Tourism, Hotel Administration and Culinary Arts (= "BTH") from the Lycée H ...
for Ferrero chocolates in 1987 and became famous worldwide due to its repeated appearances as a toy in easter eggs
The Happy Hippo toys came in various costumes and character designs, including an authorized parody character (named "Hipperium") from the
George Lucas
George Walton Lucas Jr. (born May 14, 1944) is an American filmmaker. Lucas is best known for creating the ''Star Wars'' and ''Indiana Jones'' franchises and founding Lucasfilm, LucasArts, Industrial Light & Magic and THX. He served as chairm ...
''
Star Wars
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'' trilogy.
Availability
Kinder Happy Hippos can be purchased in parts of the
United States (primarily in the Northeast),
Canada,
Slovakia,
Hong Kong,
Japan
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,
Italy,
Israel, the
United Kingdom,
Germany,
Ireland,
Portugal,
Spain,
Switzerland
). Swiss law does not designate a ''capital'' as such, but the federal parliament and government are installed in Bern, while other federal institutions, such as the federal courts, are in other cities (Bellinzona, Lausanne, Luzern, Neuchâtel ...
,
Bulgaria,
Greece,
Slovenia,
Croatia, the
Czech Republic, the
Republic of Poland
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,
Puerto Rico,
Hungary, the
United Arab Emirates,
Bahrain,
Romania,
Cyprus,
South Africa,
Morocco,
Qatar,
Tunisia,
Algeria,
Chile,
Malta,
New Zealand,
Denmark,
Norway and
Brazil. In
Latvia
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, they are mostly available at Sky. And in France recently
In
Australia
Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a Sovereign state, sovereign country comprising the mainland of the Australia (continent), Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous List of islands of Australia, sma ...
, Kinder Happy Hippos started appearing in petrol stations and supermarket chains, developing a slightly cult-like following amongst some adults, before the biscuits were discontinued in 2010, however have reappeared in Woolworths supermarkets in 202
New Kinder Happy Hippos
See also
*
List of chocolate bar brands
References
External links
*
Happy Hippo Pictures
Ferrero SpA brands
Chocolate bars
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