To bin these advent calendars as the chocolate isn't foil sealed

[DyslexicScientist]

They were a gift from ex mil but if they are not foil wrapped the chocolate is going to be nasty tasting, probably off and not that healthy right?

Choc doesn't go white when its off it goes like that when its not been properly tempered and left in the open it can still be eaten. I remember when cadbury came unfoilwrapped and just in a plastic tray within the box no cellophane either - I am not dead and I ate it for a month straight

Advent calendars were like that when I was young - no wrapping bar the calendar itself. I'm not sure what health inducing characteristics are contained in foil. If they're not nice the kids won't eat the rest of them.

You can tell as one of the windows is a bit broken and the whole thing rattles as they are loose.

I'm pretty sure chocolate goes off. I've traveled round India many times and eaten lot of off chocolate that had obviously melted and solidified many times are was as brittle as a party ring. When chocolate blooms its off IMO.

Oh really didnt know that so thought when it went white it was on the turn

Ooh, must see if I can pick up some choc advent calenders for neices and nephews and DC today.
If ex MIL has done the same for yours then I think the relationship is worth the risk of dodgy chocolate - it has too much sugar in to ever go off!
It doesn't need two lots of packaging - presumably it's behind a window?

I'm just thinking of all those times I've bought fudge in places like Cornwall. It's out on the counter unwrapped, it's put into a bag unwrapped, and it's lovely. I've never known anyone die of unwrapped fudge poisoning, even that time we forgot we had it and discovered and ate it four months later.

Has anyone ever ecperienced food poisoning due to non-foil wrapped chocolate???

They're behind windows, OP, that means they are more than adequately protected. And how likely do you really think it is that they have melted and solidified many times?

Advent calenders always rattle when you shake them.

Personally I wouldn't bin them.

Then again I sucked part of an old bus ticket off of a Trebor mint I found in my pocket on the way to work this morning

You are bonkers op.

Rattling is normal. So is not being foil wrapped for everything, it may even be fresher.

What brand is is it and is it in date?

Do you have a difficult relationship with mil? Because I'm wondering if your response is more spite than reason.

Chocolate doesnt really go off - if your worried about the chocolate being off send them to me and I will test them all and will post back here with the results...

If chocolate goes off, it simply affects the taste. That is why you have a best before on chocolate, and not a use by. Give them to someone else who would appreciate them.

Chocolate Advent calendars never used to be foil wrapped.

I remember opening windows to find the chocolate had slipped down inside the packaging which resulted in shaking to try and get it back to the window which made most of the rest of the chocolates fall out too.

What memories

Bear ah the memories

Chocolate that has "bloomed" is not of! The cocoa has just come to the surface. It'll be fine!

OP do you like your ex MIL?

All advent calendars rattle.

I wish advent calendars weren't foil wrapped as it is a pain to get it out of the foil (need finger nails, DC don't have finger nails).

Do you just want an excuse to throw them away because they are from your ex MIL? Sounds like it. What a load of rubbish. All calendars rattle and they aren't all foil wrapped either so YABU. But you have been told that may times and are still arguing your point so I'm not convinced you'll listen.

Just throw them then explain it to your children.

The washing up liquid stu was ecover!

Does that somehow make it OK?

Stop projecting your dislike of ex MIL and let the kids have the blooming chocolate!

Ecover WUL perfectly healthy to eat.

Non-foil-wrapped chocolate likely to cause a tummy upset.

Okayyyy....

And, please tell me you're not really a scientist, OP.

Check the use by date.

Unless your MIL has form for buying old advent calendars in the sale and keeping them for a couple of years, they'll be fine.

Worra, at the Trebor. I thought I was the only one to do things like that. My worst one (I am actually ashamed of that one) was picking up some chewing gum which fell out of my mouth - in Heathrow airport. YUCK! (But I didn't get sick so there).

You're being ridiculous OP. Are you sure it's not because they're from your MIL more than anything else? Give them away if you're going to be prissy about it but fgs don't meep on IRL about bad stomachs and off chocolate from bloody advent calendars.