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2021 has not just been a year, it has been a journey, and not one for the faint of heart either, writes 2021 critic, Cape {town} Etc’s Ashleigh Nefdt.

Although we still have two months to manoeuvre through (and we are all well aware of how much can change in two months, or three weeks for that matter as the echoes of 2020 whisper) there might be hope for this year to redeem itself thanks to two unsung heroes that have aided many South Africans through the more stressful portions of our lives.

Ice cream and chuckles separately have guided us through emotional nights; gruelling sessions of burning the midnight oil, long conversations with friends alongside the respective treats’ company and the mid-month breakdown whereby ice cream for breakfast and chuckles for dinner didn’t seem like the worst idea.

Now, what if we brought the two sweetest heroes together?

“It can’t be done!” the critical might pose, to which Woolworths might notion in heroic response and cite our Madiba in saying “nothing is impossible until it is done.”

2021 after all has been nothing short of a time for heroes and experimentation after all.

Woolies is no stranger to experimenting with food combinations either, even if the public hasn’t always understood said combination choices. Anyone who stumbled across the ‘fish wors’ creation might still tilt their head in curious confusion toward that phenomenon.

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However, it’s safe to say that people have responded for the most part with open arms to Woolworths’ announcement of Chuckles Ice Cream.

Malt Dairy Ice Cream and the Mini Malt Crunch Solo popsicles are here, and as real as every one of your cravings.

“Did we just fix 2021?” Woolworths cheekily wrote in their coy announcement, to which a myriad of social media users deliciously responded with a resounding “yes“.

Here’s what fans of the concept had to say: 

Anything is possible.

‘Expeditiously.’

There is no time to lose.

The GPS is currently rerouting to better things.

Eskom, please let us have nice things.

Woolworths understood the assignment.

And the choir sang amen.

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Picture: Woolworths

 

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