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Original poster

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

89 replies

DyslexicScientist · 30/11/2015 09:06

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?

OP posts:
SantasLittleMonkeyButler · 30/11/2015 10:37

Would they be OK if they weren't gifts from your ex-MIL?

Let us look at the facts;

  1. Chocolate does not go off in the way other foods do. It goes musty at worst. Giving a child a musty chocolate is not akin to giving them a rancid chicken.
  1. Foil sealing the chocolate is more to stop the bits of chocolate falling out & slipping down to other windows that it is for sanitary purposes. As others have said, many high end boxes of chocolates will have only the chocolate and the box. No foil.
  1. Advent calendars are not intended to be healthy. If you are worried by the potential health effects of such a small piece of chocolate every day, then take yourself to WHSmith to get some old fashioned picture ones.
SantasLittleMonkeyButler · 30/11/2015 10:38

Damn it Foil sealing the chocolate is more to stop the bits of chocolate falling out & slipping down to other windows than it is for sanitary purposes.

gamerchick · 30/11/2015 10:41

I don't think many kids would be impressed with a healthy advent calendar thinking about it. It's all about the chocolate.

mumeeee · 30/11/2015 10:45

YABU. A lot of Advent Calendars don't have foil wrapped chocolates. The chocolates will be fine.

JugglingFromHereToThere · 30/11/2015 10:45

"old fashioned picture ones"

We used to have a picture one, shared with my two sibs.
We used to get excited when every third day it was our turn to open the window Grin
I think a bit later we did have some chocolate ones. They were a revelation!

Reminds me of Charlie Bucket in Charlie and the chocolate factory Smile

Original poster
DyslexicScientist · 30/11/2015 10:48

OK I am probably looking for an excuse. I do think cheap chocolate belongs in the bin.

They are 21% coco? Surely that means the bin is the only suitable place for themWink

OP posts:
Stimpack · 30/11/2015 10:51

Don't be a dick OP.

PaulAnkaTheDog · 30/11/2015 10:51

Still unreasonable Grin

mumeeee · 30/11/2015 10:51

Cheap Chocolate can still be good.

SantasLittleMonkeyButler · 30/11/2015 10:54

We had one each Juggling - but they were the same ones every year Xmas Wink.

The windows would be pushed closed before they were packed away & they did stay reasonably shut until opened again. Sometimes one of us would "accidentally" rip a window or two off so we had to have a new one the next year.

I think my DCs think recycling is a concept of their generation - they have nothing on my parents' ability to recycle Xmas Grin.

NoSmileToday · 30/11/2015 11:08

Throw them away.

Then tell your children that you binned them because you don't like their grandma. Then contact grandma and tell her the same. I am sure everyone will thank you for it.

Alternatively stop being spiteful and just allow your innocent children to enjoy a gift from grandma, keep your venom for a later date like one of their weddings then you can really let loose on grandma.

specialsubject · 30/11/2015 11:10

no food is unhealthy per se. Even chocolate has nutrition.

put them in the food bank trolley at your supermarket if you don't want them.

MerryMarigold · 30/11/2015 11:14

We had the same calendar for about 10 years. It was very beautiful, had a little part of the xmas story behind the window and a picture and I still remember it. Never had a choc one, ever.

NicoleWatterson · 30/11/2015 11:30

Best. thread. ever.

Klaptrap · 30/11/2015 11:35

"Back in the day" they didn't have foil and it never caused any issues, I think YABU.

I miss the days when they didn't have foil actually, the foil is really annoying!

Costacoffeeplease · 30/11/2015 11:41

Hilarious, food poisoning from chocolate, yeah, right Grin

You don't think there might have been other things causing food poisoning when travelling around India?

So you don't like your ex MIL and are snobbish about cheap chocolate - you sound delightful

spritefairy · 30/11/2015 11:49

Cheap chocolate is the best!! You can eat more of it. Too rich and its sickly. Like those awful Belgium seashells

Johnny5isAlive · 30/11/2015 11:50

I always thought choc advent calendars were a recent thing as we didn't have them when I was younger. However, from reading some comments here I now think my parents were just tight as we had a nice picture calendar which we reused each year

DinoSnores · 30/11/2015 12:03

"When chocolate blooms its off IMO."

The briefest of Google searches would have demonstrated to you that a bloom is perfectly safe to eat:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chocolate_bloom

MissBattleaxe · 30/11/2015 12:05

The chocolate is safe. You just don't like your MIL. Whatever you think of her that's their grandma. An advent calendar with no foil is harmless and a nice gesture.

JugglingFromHereToThere · 30/11/2015 12:09

Google research ... "Advent calenders with chocolate were already available in 1958"

Not in our house though I'm pretty sure they did make an appearance at some point during the 70's. As I mentioned before that we had the picture ones Smile

Notimefortossers · 30/11/2015 12:16

Lol. I really miss the ability to 'like' comments when I'm on here. MNHQ, pwease?

balletgirlmum · 30/11/2015 12:25

The OP still hasn't said what brand they are.

MarlenaGru · 30/11/2015 13:05

This post is fabulous. Rancid chocolate Grin.
I fear it is because it came from ex-Mil. Just let the children eat it. I am sure "death by chocolate" is not in the ONS data.

JugglingFromHereToThere · 30/11/2015 16:07

Bought my advent calenders this afternoon - on special offer (half price!) as last day of November - result Smile