to think it's terribly bad form to start on the boottom layer of chocs?

[ChaosTrulyReigns]

Finish the top first you heathen.

Grr.

Fruity cream and coffee ones - don't like those, they're all claggy and syrupy in my mouth. Urgh. (But obviously I will choke them down in desperation.)

I always eat my favourites from the top layer, and then go onto the bottom layer.
My ds likes the same chocolates as me which is really annoying, as we compete to eat all our favourites and then have all the horrible ones left.
Why doesn't he like the nasty hard ones and leave me to the strawberry creams?

Anyone who eats the orange or coffee creams or anything involvigg nougat or praline is welcome round here to attack our bottom layer (oo er). As long s you leave the strawberry creams, the caramels and the truffles alone.

Are you not old enough now to know what you like and don't like? :o and do you not hate the "bleurgh - Turkish delight" effect?

Ah now Edmund's Turkish Delight in the film intrigued me. It looked delicious and made me want Turkish Delight Very Much even though I'm not a big fan. Maybe it was because it was in a pretty box.

I don't mind it in chocolate, but on its own it looks like soap.

It is also very wrong to take After Eights from a box and leave behind the envelope, thus creating the impression that there are more available than is the case.

I agree chaos

Top layer first

And I'll eat them all because the alternative of giving any away is worse than eating the lesser favourites. Though I may swap caramels with dh

Though I can't remember the last time we had a two layer box of chocolates let alone myself

Oh yes, anyone who leaves an empty After Eight envelope in the box should be shot at dawn.
The bottom layer should be left untouched till the top layer is finished, so that you have the thrill of revealing a complete layer awaiting you.
As for tipping them into a bowl, words fail me!

My DH loves after eights and often has a sneaky box hidden - I don't really like them that much so generally don't touch them. However if he pissed me off I have been know to eat every single one and leave the envelopes

It is bad form, but not as bad as always losing the little piece of paper that tells you which choc is which, so everyone has to go in blind (yes dear father, I mean you).

But what if there is a marzipan in the top layer?

Would the bottom layer stay there untouched for a generation, like Miss Haversham's wedding cake?

Send the marzipan iones this way.

I bought myself an m and s marzipan bar as a birthday treat.

I should create a website to match people who live nearby and should share boxes of chocolate

No Calming the bottom layer would remian untouched for precisely as long as it took to chuck the marzipan ones into the compost bin.

Maryz, you are so right.

The disappointment of going to the second row and finding that someone has already been there.

Maryz I just hold it up in the air and look at it from below.

Added benefit is that it also keeps them out of little childrens' reach so they can't pinch any in the meantime.

There's nothing more appealing than an untouched, shiny new layer of chocolates to devour.

I generally like ALL chocolate, except coffee creams. I do hide all the green triangles from Quality Street though, as they are my absolute favourite, and therefore wasted on the rest of the family.

Mind you, 7 year old DS actually chooses the plain toffee ones. Nutter!

Does anyone else find chocolate recognition from the pictures a bit tricky too?

It's a bugger when I bite into what I'm expecting to be a praline to find it's hard toffee which my poor old teeth just cannot manage.
Then I have to extract it and pass it to dh to finish off and start the whole ID process again.
Perhaps a bowl full of random chocs is better than this.
At least I'd know to expect the worst.

Just do like I do and marry a man who likes the ones you don't. Problem solved!

What is Montelimar?

It's actually perfectly reasonable to start on the bottom layer before the top layer is finished. You see, you eat the ones that by law only adults are allowed to eat, then the ones that children are actually allowed to eat you put into a bowl to be shared as and when appropriate. You then do the same with the bottom layer. Problem solved.

However, if at any point you are in a state of dire need for a chocolate hit you are at liberty to nibble the chocolate from around the unwanted filling of the children only sweet.

It's the law.

montelimar is nougat yak
"apostropheuse Fri 02-Nov-12 19:52:33
It's actually perfectly reasonable to start on the bottom layer before the top layer is finished."
Where's the hide poster button when yo need it?

People are discussing really horrible chocolates here (Quality Street??), ones I wouldn't give to the servants, they'd leave.