To return Heston Blumenthal's utterly disgusting chocolates to Waitrose?

[EmilyGilmore]

A few days ago I bought a box of Heston Bloomingdisgustinthal's chocolates in Waitrose. I ONLY bought them because I thought they were on offer at £3.49 and that seemed a reasonable price for a smallish box of 15 chocs. It turns out the offer was for the teeny tiny box of 5 not the 15 which I paid £13.50(!!!!!!) for I didn't realise till I got home, unpacked the bags and DH had already opened the box, eaten two and declared them "horrible".

I have since eaten 4 more, to give the guy a chance...but no, they are truly disgusting. Rosemary and thyme praline anyone?

WIBU to attempt to return them to Waitrose? Would I get a refund do you think? I have chucked the receipt unfortunately.

Ugh, I need a Walnut Whip now just to get the taste out of my mouth.

No idea on the returning but thanks for the heads up! They do sound revolting.
I'd probably send them back to Heston with a "review".

Well as it was Waitrose, you could try - they are really hot on customer service.

But , you would be admitting that you had the sort of palate that couldn't properly appreciate fancy chocolates. They might suggest that Roses would be more to your liking or something

i did, and got a refund no problem, but I'd only eaten one. If you have eaten 7, they might not be so happy! You could probably get 50% back with no hassle.

His stuff is all disappointing, no?

Has anyone had anything by him - other than his smoked salmon, which is divine - and found it exceptional in any way?

No, is he even a real chef? DH is always buying his ready meals when it's his turn to "cook" and they are horrible too. Why the Waitrose love affair with him I wonder?

I have to say I have not had a single decent thing of Hestons for waitrose, I too only try when reduced and have not liked a single thing, sausages, crap, really expensive pudding - bland...etc etc. They will refund you of course.

Waitrose has 2 for £7 on Bendicks bitter mints right now...

Wow how could you not notice an extra tenner at the checkout? Thats a lot.

I'd try returning them. YOu may not get all teh money back having eaten so many but you may get a goodwill gesture of some sort.

YABU - you've eaten them! They can't have been that bad.

I can understand keeping on eating, hoping for a good one, then realising half way through that you'd reached the tipping point.

I hope they refund you. Will be interested to hear.

Im prepared to hold judgement…

i was convinced salted fudge would be horrible but my god it was the most divine thing I've ever put in my mouth !

Yanbu. Dh insisted we try hestons failsafe method for boiling eggs, since apparently mine that only works every time is no good . What a crock of shit. Runny white runny yolk. Bleurgh. Now we use mine.

That man is all style over substance.

What were you expecting; buying chocolates with that gobshite's name on them???

One Stop have three boxes of Lindt Lindor balls for £5 if you can get to the shelf on time...

So you want to return the empty box? If your DH ate one and you ate 4.....?

He had 2, I had 4. There are 9 left.

No I wouldn't return them you ate 6 of them one would enough have been enough to tell they were horrible. If you managed 4 then they couldn't have been that bad.

Never tried anything of Heston origin personally. My mum likes his xmas puds though. With orange or something.

But she only had one, and has never been able to get one again as they sell out by Oct.

I bought some last year - utterly disgusting!

I quite like the idea of rosemary & thyme praline - well, maybe not the rosemary so much, but have had thyme in a chocolate before & it worked.

Have only bought two Heston for Waitrose items. The chocolate passionfruit torte with popping candy that was out last Christmas was utterly gorgeous. The mince pies with pine sugar tasted as if someone had mixed mince pie with loo cleaner.

Oh and it's worth a go at a refund. Worst that can happen is they say no.

I tried his mince pies two years ago. They were horrible and overpriced too. Think they also had rosemary in... some kind of separate sugar stuff to sprinkle on the top.

Are the chocs different flavours?

I think it's UR to try to return them. Waitrose didn't make the mistake and they can't now sell the product to another sucker someone else.

Case of sucking this one up and never being duped into buying any of the man's atrocious shit in future.