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

[ChaosTrulyReigns]

Finish the top first you heathen.

Grr.

The turkish delight ones always go first.... and if I find somebody has eaten the ones on the bottom layer when there are still chocs on the top layer, they are in BIG BIG trouble :-)

It's never ok, unless it's your own box of chocolates and nobody else is having any anyway and maybe not even then, don't think I could bring myself to do it!
In our household the only exception is that, if there's only one chocolate left on the top layer you're allowed to start on the bottom layer and put the last one from the top in its place, otherwise you wouldn't get any choice and that doesn't seem fair.

Quality street don't come in layers .

But they are largely revolting, I agree.

Does anyone remember the really posh terry's All Gold that came in a little chest of drawers?

My grandparents used to be given a box of those each Christmas. I loved that little chest of drawers.

It is really bad form if you eat the viennese truffles no matter where they are. THEY ARE MINE.

Maryz...calm down and have a piece of hazelnut. All the chocolate's been sucked off. I don't do nuts.

I could fair go a turkish delight right now. mmmm

Mmm Viennese trufflrs are lovely.

I like a nice gooey caramel preferably with a nut inside.

It's evil! It's wrong!! It's what Jimmy Savile would have done!!!

Although I do sometimes go to the under-layer and remove the alcoholic ones to give to other people before I start properly.

Shriiiieeekpooling...

I know you're looking at me.

I just know it.

TiggyD - you're so right there.

I have heard it said that Joseph Goebbels not only raided the bottom layer of Schokoladen but also would leave the empty wrappers in the family tin of Qualität Straße at Christmas.

What is the etiquette with chocolates that come in a bucket upright box? - is it every man for himself, dive in and grab? - Anyone who leaves me with rock hard toffees, and those things with a dead cherry inside is asking for trouble I can tell you.

We have to have house rules for chocolates in layered boxes, otherwise Dh would just grab the first one he sees which, Heaven forbid, might be my favourite and he eats them so fast he doesn't appreciate them. So he might as well have the substandard crap (marzipan, nougat, the ones with lethal shards of crackly stuff in them).

But to answer your question OP, - no you shouldn't start in the bottom layer before finishing the top (unless it's me and there are only one's I don't like left, then it's OK)

I can remember my sister's and I fighting over who got the privilege of having the empty box from chocolates - they were a rare treat - we used to gum various bits of flotsam and jetsam on them and call them jewellery boxes.

Obviously this was in the days when you could fill your bath with chocolates, buy a package holiday to Turkey and still have change out of a farthing.

Now I just sling the box in the recycling.

And somehow that makes me sad and sniffly

No one in my family likes the ones I like (strawberry and orange creams) so I get them ALL!

And I bloody love them in the QS tin, common as muck, me.

KurriKurri you just reminded me, I used to keep the empty boxes because those pieces of plasticky paper between the layers retain the lovely chocolate smell for months!

This has reminded me of the ex deputy head at the school I work at. When we got a tin of chocs in the staff room, he thought it was funny to rewrap sweets in the old wrappers, so you thought you were getting a strawberry cream and it turned out to be a hazelnut whirl...

Rusty that man was clearly criminally insane and society should be protected from people like him.