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He doesn't like after eights! (lighthearted)

89 replies

Santaclarita · 09/10/2018 20:44

Just that simply. My partner thinks after eights are weird. He also doesn't like fish, any kind of fish. I think this isn't meant to be.

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ElainaElephant · 10/10/2018 00:14

If your fish smells and tastes too fishy, it's just not fresh enough. No, I'm not joking.

Truly fresh fish has very little smell.

MrsCatE · 10/10/2018 01:55

I'd still give him a chance OP but PP with husband who didn't like cheese??!! LTB.

What about Matchmakers?? You can now get mint, orange and Salted Caramel - all delicious.

Foofloofah · 10/10/2018 01:58

Leave the bastard

HelenaDove · 10/10/2018 02:00

i bloody hate mints in any form.

HelenaDove · 10/10/2018 02:01

Matchmakers are also doing a limited edition flavour for this Christmas..............Gingerbread Ive seen them in Tesco.

aidelmaidel · 10/10/2018 02:03

pox have you got a background check done on him because someone who can do that is def a shady character

I understand you can get After Eights into reluctant partners by blending them into spag bol, etc. Or was that vegetables into kids?

penisbeakers · 10/10/2018 02:04

HANGING OFFENCE

campion · 10/10/2018 02:07

I've had a pack of 4 Ferrero rocher in the cupboard since July 2017. A leaving present from a v nice 12 yr old. Nobody will eat them and I'd feel bad throwing them away. What to do?

DH doesn't like After Eights either. Scoffs down anything with Lindt on the label though Hmm

tillytrotter1 · 10/10/2018 03:28

Good for him After Eights are cheap and nasty, Bendicks Bittermints or even Ritter Sport Peppermint are far preferable. There's a good reason that After Eights are found in Poundshops!

Orange chocolate is revolting and I speak as one who received a Terry chocolate egg as my one and only gift from OH on my 50th birthday! He knows I loathe the stuff too. Got a very expensive SLR for my 60th though.

Original poster
Santaclarita · 10/10/2018 06:15

trulybadlydeeply sorry he likes orange chocolate. He's lovely though and buys me a Terry's chocolate orange now and again and knows he'll only get a slice or two as I'll scoff the rest. Grin

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trulybadlydeeply · 10/10/2018 09:38

Yuck. You may keep him then.

justwantedalaugh · 10/10/2018 09:39

I feel After Eights have changed over the years. I don't really like them anymore myself.

FreezerBird · 10/10/2018 09:45

It's reassuring to hear that after eights aren't as good as they were - they're the only thing which tempts me to break my Nestlé boycott.

I will continue to crack open the bendicks, safe in the knowledge I am not missing out after all.

justwantedalaugh · 10/10/2018 09:50

Now Bendicks I love (having scoffed a box at the weekend I was meant to be saving for Xmas).

newrubylane · 10/10/2018 09:58

My OH doesn't like after eights either, or in fact any mint-flavoured chocolate or sweets. It's a bit odd, I agree!

MinaPaws · 10/10/2018 10:01

He knows what others have yet to learn. After Eights are monstrous slivers of dark plastic with toothpaste inside (only Shednik has seen the light on this. And me. And your partner.) Hold onto him.

He's wrong about the fish though.

cooliebrown · 10/10/2018 10:04

I think it was Paddy Ashdown who was hosting the Chinese ambassador for dinner. At the end of the meal they passed around the After 8s and the Chinese ambassador and his wife ate theirs with the paper still on - so Paddy Pantsdown and his missus did the same...

Miggeldy · 10/10/2018 10:10

I don't like after eights either.
Hate minty food.

Wish they had a milk chocolate with strawberry filling version.

TamiTayorismyparentingguru · 10/10/2018 11:38

Charlie he actually likes white chocolate now (he’s 14), but only when it’s proper good quality white chocolate. He still wouldn’t choose to eat milkybar. (Neither would I to be fair). When we lived in the US we discovered a Venezuelan chocolate brand which was amazing. Their white chocolate had won best white chocolate in the world several years running and IT.WAS.SO.GOOD! I wish we could get it here.

As an aside: the year of DS’s second Christmas nestle brought out lemon flavoured after eights - anyone remember those? They were amazing and DS loved them too. (He really does just like strong flavours - from when he was first weaned to now, he will turn his nose up at anything remotely bland)

Sethis · 10/10/2018 11:45

You like pineapple on pizza. He's well within his rights to leave you on the spot.

After 8s I don't mind, but they're completely unsatisfying. I feel like I haven't eaten anything at all until I finish a whole box and then you just feel ill because they're so rich. Would much rather have a mint imperial or glacier mint after dinner, chewing gum would be even better for the digestion.

Also I feel bad about throwing away the waxed paper wrappers.

Poodles1980 · 10/10/2018 14:00

I ate a massive box of after eights one year at Christmas and felt very unwell. I ended up getting sick and the bathroom smelled like after eights for about a week. I still love them though

justwantedalaugh · 10/10/2018 15:09

That's because dogs (including poodles) should not be eating chocolate Shock

justwantedalaugh · 10/10/2018 15:11

Anyone old enough to remember the 1985 After Eight ad?

SaltyPeanut · 10/10/2018 15:23

I used to like them but they are not remotely the same in recent years. Used to be cool and smooth inside, now like over sweet gloopy but still slightly grainy toothpaste. Just another reminder of "things ain't what they used to be".

On a side note and speaking of where mint does not belong, DH came home last week with some mint Toilet Duck after picking it up without looking, thinking it was pine.

MINT bog cleaner, FUCKING MINT.

Not nice in the extreme to smell what would normally go in your mouth mixed with the smell of shit. Ineffective at completely removing smells too (sorry, if TMI), so a mint smell that gets in your throat and still had to use bleach afterwards.

Sorry for bringing down the tone but I had to tell someone about it.

Toddlerteaplease · 10/10/2018 15:29

There is nothing more depressing in the entire world than an after eight box filled with empty papers.