because I practice what I preach: I bought a WHOLE BAG of KSL SWEETS, not CANDY

it cost 160 bob

some of you are spending 160 on ONE chocolate

I HAVE ENOUGH KSL SWEETS FOR A MONTH! FOR THREE MONTHS IF I EAT ONE A DAY!

BUY SWEETS, NOT CANDY

(I do not work for whatever company makes KSL)

(alternatively: friends have trained their children not to like sweet stuff

their bills are lower)

(apart from those silly ones who are training their Kenyan children to love olives and capers and sundried tomatoes and cheese

DO YOU KNOW HOW MUCH THESE THINGS COST?)

(now, when I was a child, my mother—who DISLIKED cheese—NEVER bought good cheese

she bought the kind of cheese that convinces people they hate cheese)

(look, parents, I'm not saying this is a *good* strategy

I'm just saying your savory bills might be cheaper if you start your Kenyan children off with the cheese that makes people hate cheese

let them discover the good stuff when they are earning their own money)

(Can you imagine if I was telling my mother to buy me cheese imported from Italy? Or Spain?

"Mom, I would like Manchego today!"

IN WHAT WORLD?)

(anyhow: don't take parenting tips from me)

(I'm just saying if you start your Kenyan kids off with Quality Street, they will resent you when you start buying them white patco)

(be a Kenyan parent: give your kids sugar cane)