I'm modern Britain you should be able to buy marrons glaces

[twoopsie]

We forgot to buy any before Xmas and now a desert I've got planned for today is in dire need of some but no where open yesterday had any. The Italian deli won't be open until jan, I would of hoped even waitrose or John lewis would of stocked them, but no.

They are for sale in Yarm and Northallerton.
Yes..."modern Britain" way up North.

Mimsy You are seriously wasted on here...or maybe just wasted to post such a hilarious post.

Ah thanks I didn't think of tk max, will give that a go later.

Gosh I wish wollies was still here, there is fuck all chance of Wilkinson's having mg!

WutheringFrights exactly my point, they are not just a posh shop thing, more an Xmas staple for people of taste! There must be somewhere around cornwal that has them.

Pretty here, but sometimes feels like a remote island

I bought some in Waitrose last year but I don't think there's a branch near you.

Surely Rick Stein has put his face to marrons glaces? Everything fancier than Rustlers is Stein branded down there.

"Xmas staple for people of taste"

snort at OP

You should try living in rural Scotland. We read Yotem Ottelenghi recipes as bizarre works of magical realism - so many ingredients that are never seen in real life.

It's a Christmas staple and so that's why the people of taste have bought them in good time and the supply is finite. Especially in places that aren't London.
But why are you making a desert? That's very environmentally unfriendly.

OP, you should have said earlier, I have some in the cupboard.

Ok...so next year we should all send out food parcels to those in desperate need of basic ingredients. Marron glace. Morrello cherries & buckwheat for those further up north than me.

Just for those who appreciate "stable ingredients" and have "Taste"

This is exactly like what I refer to as the 'great pomegranate molasses famine'. That's when I understood what real suffering was.

Here in France Lidl has them

I sell them in my farm shop in rural Somerset...so it isn't just Harvey nicks and posh shops!

A Somerset farm shop is even more middle class and posh than Waitrose in my opinion.

Use conkers but tell everyone not to eat them.
You will thus have an aesthetically pleasing dish plus the bonus of an after dinner game.

My apologies to everyone else for my rant.

Well elephants - I'd say your post is rude and ignorant. No need for that whatsoever.

just googled her. Twoops you are obsessed with your parents wealth!

Elephants, who pooed in your cornflakes this morning?

Well no actually elephants is obsessed with my parents wealth as so posts it in every thread I start despite it not being relivant at all what fucking car my dad drives.

She has serious issues. Never misses a chance to be rude and nasty. Sucks to be you.

I tried to make my own marron glace with vacuum packed chestnuts and sugar syrup because I couldn't find any here in rural Scotland, it didn't really work, sadly.

I live near Falmouth. Lakeland in Truro could have them. Some of the posher farm shops, eg gear farm might too.