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AIBU to think chocolate should NOT be kept in the fucking fridge?

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ChocolateShouldNotBeInTheFuckingFridge · 19/08/2025 18:54

DH believes chocolate (including biscuits e.g. digestives) should be kept in the fridge because “it tastes nicer, keeps its shape and lasts longer”.

I believe chocolate should not be kept in the fridge because it’s fucking wrong, basically. Am I being unreasonable?

(There is also another AIBU worthy sub question, which is that if you can say you can fit a chocolate digestive in your mouth, YABU to then break it into pieces with bites as you put it in, so that it fits? This is clearly cheating and DH should be told he is YABU just for this alone? If I lose this fridge thread, I’ll start that one Wink)

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toiletgoblin · 21/08/2025 15:31

I microwave chocolate for 20 seconds, tastes way nicer when warm and soft

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ChocolateShouldNotBeInTheFuckingFridge · 21/08/2025 15:13

Already eaten lemon danish pastry for breakfast btw.

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ChocolateShouldNotBeInTheFuckingFridge · 21/08/2025 15:12

Bounty is now in the freezer…

(sadly blue not red but worth a try!)

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Sahara123 · 20/08/2025 19:21

taxidriver · 19/08/2025 20:28

i love to dip chocolate in my hot drink.
yanbu

Ooh reminds me of being in the canteen in college, we used to dip Twix fingers into our coffee! Yum . I’m clearly a chocolate heathen !

Sahara123 · 20/08/2025 17:35

SDTGisAnEvilWolefGenius · 20/08/2025 11:03

Dh is in the doghouse at the moment, @Sahara123. I have a box of Green and Blacks tiny chocolate bars - lots of different flavours, but only two tiny bars of each - they are my chocolate fix now I am type 2 diabetic, and can't have a lot of sugar. I asked him to bring me a couple of mini bars, but not the ginger flavoured ones - those are my favourite and I wanted to save them 'til last. He thought I didn't like them, and he ATE THEM!!! I was shocked and saddened.

I've added a full sized bar of the ginger flavour to next week's supermarket order, and if he lays a finger on it, I'm hiding all his Yorkie bars!

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Ooh yes, I love Green and Blacks too.
How could he 😱

Unforgettablefire · 20/08/2025 16:26

cannyvalley · 20/08/2025 13:30

I am similarly horrified when I learn people keep tomato’s in the fridge!

Why? They keep fresh for longer. Bananas don’t go in the fridge but my tomatoes always do.

Smoothwater · 20/08/2025 16:07

You’re all insane. Fridge chocolate is like eating plastic, flavourless and horrible. This is such a disgrace. I’m with you op. I could cope with a digestive as the layer is thin and warm quickly. But a chocolate bar? What sort of madness would it be to eat cold chocolate?! Awful.

Sblo · 20/08/2025 15:57

Matter of taste. My partner likes his chilled, my son not so they get their own supply each.

GhoulWithADragonTattoo · 20/08/2025 15:53

Better in cupboard generally but fridge in very hot weather.

IsthatyouKateAdie · 20/08/2025 14:55

murasaki · 20/08/2025 14:20

Ooh, good idea there, the cake is the big let down with jaffa cakes. What I really want is something like an after eight but with the jaffa cake orange filling. To be kept in the freezer.

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Mmm I'd sign up for that!

CynthiaGrace · 20/08/2025 14:39

YABU. I agree that SOME chocolate isn’t for the fridge, however bounty bars and Turkish delights are absolutely divine from the fridge.

murasaki · 20/08/2025 14:20

IsthatyouKateAdie · 20/08/2025 14:15

This. Chocolate digestives are only edible from the fridge. All Chocolate should be eaten cold.
NRFT so apols if thousands have already said this.... but Jaffa Cakes should always be frozen. They are sooo much better and you can lever off the boring cake with your teeth then have a lovely cold disc of orange (or other flavour) to melt in your mouth with the chocolate. Room temp Jaffa Cakes are all cake, no yum.

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Ooh, good idea there, the cake is the big let down with jaffa cakes. What I really want is something like an after eight but with the jaffa cake orange filling. To be kept in the freezer.

IsthatyouKateAdie · 20/08/2025 14:15

PleaseBringMeMyWine · 19/08/2025 19:09

Chocolate digestives in the fridge are LOVELY👌🏻 As is all chocolate.

This. Chocolate digestives are only edible from the fridge. All Chocolate should be eaten cold.
NRFT so apols if thousands have already said this.... but Jaffa Cakes should always be frozen. They are sooo much better and you can lever off the boring cake with your teeth then have a lovely cold disc of orange (or other flavour) to melt in your mouth with the chocolate. Room temp Jaffa Cakes are all cake, no yum.

WhereIsMyJumper · 20/08/2025 13:46

Totally agree OP, chocolate should not be in the fridge. Wrecks it.

murasaki · 20/08/2025 13:38

cannyvalley · 20/08/2025 13:30

I am similarly horrified when I learn people keep tomato’s in the fridge!

Tomatoes definitely should not be in the fridge, I agree. They taste of nothing but cold if you do that.

cannyvalley · 20/08/2025 13:30

I am similarly horrified when I learn people keep tomato’s in the fridge!

cannyvalley · 20/08/2025 13:28

I like my chocolate room temperature, it tastes a million times better than cold.

Digestives in the fridge????? Good lord!!!!

Arran2024 · 20/08/2025 13:25

It's like cheese - it tastes better left out of the fridge.

I worked in a hotel in Switzerland when I was a student and the cheese board and the chocolates were removed from the fridge at start of service so they were perfect to eat by the time it came to eating them.

Chocolate goes so hard in the fridge - I don't like the texture and you don't pick up the flavour.

But it's personal taste. I put ketchup in the fridge even though you dont have to because we like it cold.

murasaki · 20/08/2025 11:44

SDTGisAnEvilWolefGenius · 20/08/2025 11:03

Dh is in the doghouse at the moment, @Sahara123. I have a box of Green and Blacks tiny chocolate bars - lots of different flavours, but only two tiny bars of each - they are my chocolate fix now I am type 2 diabetic, and can't have a lot of sugar. I asked him to bring me a couple of mini bars, but not the ginger flavoured ones - those are my favourite and I wanted to save them 'til last. He thought I didn't like them, and he ATE THEM!!! I was shocked and saddened.

I've added a full sized bar of the ginger flavour to next week's supermarket order, and if he lays a finger on it, I'm hiding all his Yorkie bars!

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That's divorce territory! I feel your pain.

SDTGisAnEvilWolefGenius · 20/08/2025 11:03

Sahara123 · 19/08/2025 22:14

At Christmas I buy a box of after eights JUST FOR ME and keep them in the fridge. Lovely cold snap of chocolate with a minty middle mmmm 😋 . Woe betide anyone who steals them - although if they do I need to buy at least one more box obviously. However if I ever find out who steals them and leaves the little envelope in the box thereby tricking me into thinking I still have lots left there will be trouble !!

Dh is in the doghouse at the moment, @Sahara123. I have a box of Green and Blacks tiny chocolate bars - lots of different flavours, but only two tiny bars of each - they are my chocolate fix now I am type 2 diabetic, and can't have a lot of sugar. I asked him to bring me a couple of mini bars, but not the ginger flavoured ones - those are my favourite and I wanted to save them 'til last. He thought I didn't like them, and he ATE THEM!!! I was shocked and saddened.

I've added a full sized bar of the ginger flavour to next week's supermarket order, and if he lays a finger on it, I'm hiding all his Yorkie bars!

RedPony1 · 20/08/2025 09:36

Fridge chocolate is rank.

mondaytosunday · 20/08/2025 08:55

I’ve kept KitKat in the fridge this summer as it’s been so hot the chocolate has gone all soft. But normally no, I don’t.

Globules · 20/08/2025 08:50

Viviennemary · 20/08/2025 08:40

Soft yucky chocolate. I'd rather eat dust to quote Marjory Dawes.

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You may as well be eating dust, with the lack of flavour that fridge/freezer chocolate has.

Viviennemary · 20/08/2025 08:40

Globules · 20/08/2025 08:25

Ye have all been warned, you fridge/freezer using loons.

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Soft yucky chocolate. I'd rather eat dust to quote Marjory Dawes.

Globules · 20/08/2025 08:25

aLittleWhiteHorse · 19/08/2025 23:32

I didn’t have very strong feelings- until I bit into a bar of chocolate straight from the fridge and broke the root of my tooth.

One very expensive bone graft and implant later, I no longer keep chocolate in the fridge.

Ye have all been warned, you fridge/freezer using loons.