Someone brought up something I'd forgotten about today

I don't remember exactly when this event happened, but here we have a boutique creamery company called Lewis Road, who in around 2014-ish started putting out a bottled chocolate milk. The hysteria around it was immense, to the point that supermarkets had to bring in security guards to make sure people only took one each because some dickheads kept buying out entire supermarket supplies of the stuff. Now bear in mind that this chocolate milk is nowadays around NZ$4 for a 300ml bottle, or close to NZ$9 for a big 700ml bottle at full price, and it being fairly niche back then meant that it was more expensive than most equivalents at the time (but still cheaper than today due to inflation). And people were spending enough to buy out an entire shipment of this stuff.

What a time we had before COVID. It really makes you wonder how we only had that sort of thing to worry about then. Truly it was a golden age (comparatively). Now we have fascists threatening to nuke each other to worry about, a problem we haven't meaningfully had to deal with since about 1989.