For years, dietetic candy tasted as though it had been designed as a torture device by the Swiss Chocolate Police: dry, dull and about as exciting as chewing on bark.

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Facts are dry and dull.

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It's the very end of the dry season now in Southern Africa, and the land is a dull, lifeless beige.

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