Kinder Happy Hippo

Kinder Happy Hippo is a cookie/candy made by Ferrero SpA, the same company that makes Nutella, Kinder Surprise and Tic Tacs, among other candies. Visiting grad student Barbara Gandolfi brough this Happy Hippo treat from Italy where they are all the rage.


Trivia: "Happy Hippo were made famous by a smash-hit commercial where a CGI-animated Hippo sang The Lion Sleeps Tonight while a CGI dog tried to distract it/catch its attention by dancing to the music in increasingly funny and bizarre ways. It has an unusual name for a biscuit, stemming from the character "Happy Hippo" (a cartoon hippopotamus) created by the French designer André Roche for the Ferrero chocolate hit "Kinder Surprise Eggs"."