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Milk a cow, get some chocolate at Geneva Airport

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Here’s a fun airport promotion:

Swiss chocolate brand Villars is hosting a month-long activation at Switzerland’s Geneva Airport that features a life-size cow.

Visitors are invited to play a game that involves stepping into the shoes of a dairy farmer and ‘milking’ the fake cow.

In exchange, participants will receive a complimentary Villars milk chocolate bar as a gift.

According to the company reps, the goal of the fun, interactive exhibit is to highlight the process behind producing the high-quality milk that is Villars using in it premium milk chocolate.

The installation runs through September 24, 2024.

And whether or not you win the game, it sounds like chocolate sampling is part of the program.

In addition to a variety of pop-up booths from the likes of Ricola Candy and Lindt chocolate, through September 22 in the C Gates there’s a booth offering tastes of a variety of Swiss products, including Geneva chocolates, local beers, meat and fondue.

It’s definitely a step up from this creepy activation we spotting at Geneva Airport during the holiday season a few years back.

Giant chocolate tower at Dubai International Airport

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Courtesy- Dubai International Airport

Courtesy- Dubai International Airport

No nibbling…

An all-chocolate version of the world’s tallest skyscraper – Burj Khalifa – is on display on Concourse A in Terminal 3 at Dubai International Airport.

The tower is just over 44-feet-tall and was created by Master Chocolatier Andrew Farrugia as part of the 43rd UAE National Day celebrations at Dubai Airports in hopes of breaking a Guinness World Record.

More than 9,000 pounds of high quality Belgian chocolate and 1,050 hours of teamwork went into making the tower, which will be on display for two weeks.

Farrugia, who has worked in the pastry and baking field for the past 32 years, is no stranger to giant chocolate sculptures. In November, 2012 he set a Guinness World Record in Brussels, when he built an chocolate steam train 111 feet long.

Greetings from Louisville International Airport

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There are plenty of great souvenirs to buy at Kentucky’s Louisville International Airport, and I’ll share more of my finds on Snack Saturday or Souvenir Sunday.

But after a long day of flying I only have time to share this one great find.

It will become part of Stuck at the Airport’s project to document the many ways chocolate ‘poop’ is sold to souvenir-seeking travelers at airports around the world.

Kentucky horse poop

Souvenir Sunday – favorites from 2012

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It’s always fun to go poking through the shops when you’re stuck at the airport. For Souvenir Sunday, here are some fun chocolate items we found at airports and air travel-related events this year. More tomorrow….

United Airlines white chocolate

This white chocolate airplane a tempting treat at the International Flight Services Association exhibition, held in Long Beach this year.

 

Chocolate Bull one

To celebration the Calgary Stampede’s 100th anniversary, Calgary International Airport had this almost life-size, 880-pound, all chocolate bull on display. They planned to shellac it and bring it back next year.

hersheys-kisses-chocolate

For Valentine’s Day, the Food & Shops at LaGuardia Airport’s Terminal B gave out chocolate kisses to travelers.

 

Giant chocolate bull at Calgary International Airport

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The Calgary Stampede is celebrating its 100th anniversary this year, and to mark the occasion Calgary International Airport is all gussied up in its cowboy best, including hay bales, fences, painted windows and an almost life-size, 880-pound, all chocolate bull made by Chocolaterie Bernard Callebaut.

The airport hopes to shellac the bull so it can be used again next year. So no tasting allowed.

Fun food news from SAT airport and KLM-Royal Dutch Airlines

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Great airport souvenirs usually show up on Stuck at the Airport on Sunday, in the occasional Souvenir Sunday feature, but I make exceptions when it comes to chocolate.

 

(Photo courtesy San Antonio International Airport)

These jalapeno and red chile-flavored chocolate bars were spotted at San Antonio International Airport, which joins the city in celebrating Fiesta.

In addition to this chocolate, airport spokesperson Rich Johnson says that in honor of the citywide party and cultural event, “There are lots of cool, cultural items in our shops, including piñatas, clothing, cascarones (egg shells filled with confetti) and other items.”

There’s also a food-related celebration on some KLM airplanes.

From now through June, the sandwiches served on the European routes flown by KLM Royal Dutch Airlines will sport festive wrapping paper designed by students from an art and design school in the Netherlands.

Students were asked to come up with designs that were “culinary, surprising, inspirational and energetic,” and, after polling Facebook fans and experts, three winners were chosen.

The designs will be featured through June on packaging in KLM’s “Delicious” economy-class flight product line, which includes snacks, meals, sandwiches and hot towels.

Artwork by Silvie Buenen, Tom van der Pijl and Agnes Loonstra; images courtesy KLM.

Souvenir Sunday: Lovin’ the lobsters at Boston Logan International Airport

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Souvenirs at Boston Logan Airport

Souvenirs at Boston Logan Airport

Each Sunday here at StuckatTheAirport.com is Souvenir Sunday;  the day we give thanks for the fun, inexpensive souvenirs you can find when you’re stuck at the airport.

This week’s treats come to us from Boston Logan International Airport’s Boston Tops shop, where the clerk on duty was kind enough (after a bit of cajoling..) to model this cute lobster cap for us.

Lobster Hat for sale at Boston Tops shops

Gebra models lobster cap for sale at Logan Airport

Not a hat person?  We also found these fun Boston and Massachusetts-centric souvenirs in the store. Like the pot-holder with lobster-cooking instructions, each items sells for under $10:

How to cook a lobster pot holder

Lobster cooking instructions

Stuffed lobster at Boston Tops shop at Logan Airport

Tiny stuffed lobster souvenir

And my favorite:

Souvenir chocolate at Boston Logan Airport

Souvenir chocolate at Boston Logan Airport

Have you found a great souvenir while you were stuck at the airport? If it’s under $10, “of” the city or region and, ideally, a bit offbeat, please snap a photo and send it along. Your souvenir may be featured on a future edition of Souvenir Sunday.

Shop the snusidor at Stockholm-Arlanda Airport

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There’s a big, new tax and duty free shopping area in Terminal 5 at Stockholm-Arlanda Airport that looks pretty snazzy.

arlanda-shop

Larger than six tennis courts, the shop carries all the standard upscale offerings, plus a few new items.  Arlanda is the first airport to offer two Swedish-based brands: Make-Up Store and Mackmyra Whiskey, the first Swedish malt whiskey.  Set up as a collection of “worlds,” including the World of Cosmetics, the World of Perfume, and the World of Chocolate, complete with chocolate-making demonstrations, the store also boasts the world’s first “snusidor.”

arlanda-snusidor

At first I thought this might be one of those much sought-after napping-nooks. But then they would have named it a “snoozidor.”   No, the “snusidor” is actually a walk-in, refrigerated display area for snus – a traditional Swedish smokeless tobacco that accounts for about 50% of all the tobacco sales at Arlanda airport.

(Photos by Jonas Borg, courtesy Stockholm-Arlanda Airport)