To ask what the secret is behind the Maltesers box?

[Poptasmagorical]

Just that really: what is the box design all about? Why is there the circular hole? What are the perforated quarter circles for? Is it all some advanced alien technology or am I just too dense to understand a basic cardboard box?

I have so much to learn . . .

Im currently sharing a box of maltesers with DH.

In my defence, we've just been nicking dd's chocolate buttons so we didn't start on empty.

I'd possibly trade a small bodily organ for it.

I have no small bodily organs.

I have a number of large, well padded bodily organs.

I would be delighted to trade all of them for the gift of being able to eat a single chocolate what the actual eff? and leave the rest in the box.

Whispers -'I have 6 large boxes, leftover from Christmas'. Long story I have already gone through 4 others and don't seem to be tired of them yet.

(Slowly edges out of door, closing it quietly) ......

Muttering I like your work there, with the tall mug. Your username seems very apt for your furtive malteser munching. I ate a crunchie in bed the other night (it wasn't for me) and had to hide the evidence in my underwear drawer. I like that your eating was more preplanned and subtle.

Prostrates self at the feet of MutteringDarkly.

My new hero

Whispers -'I have 6 large boxes, leftover from Christmas'

Is there a gap in the market here for a service that delivers chocolate to people who didn't realise they wanted it until after they put their pyjamas on?

Maltesers were my craving throughout my pregnancy, one of the only things that didn't make me sick. Unfortunately the craving continued after my pregnancy and DS is now 15

@SchadenfreudePersonified Form an orderly queue please and I may reward the best queuers by throwing a single Malteser into open mouths

I think I sense a niche here, Eckhart

I have two boxes of Maltesers in my bedside drawer. Only DD1 knows that they aren't the original two boxes that were hidden there...

AntsDeck Whoah, whoah, no edging out quietly. We need that story. How does a home, containing actual people, have 6 large boxes left on 25 January ?? This information is crucial to the likes of schadenfreude and myself, we have bodily organs resting on this (perhaps quite literally!)

@MusicToMyEars800 is sooooooooooo right, maltezers out of a box are the best!

I was removed only the bottom half of my pjs and threw on my trackies and the slip on pumps I keep near the back door and nipped to Tesco round the corner. No big bags, just the boxes and the bags of Maltesers buttons. OH was out helping a neighbour with their car earlier and I did ask him to get chocolate while he was 'out' but he pretended to not see it til he was back in and already getting out of his work.uniform and into the shower. Knob so he's now not having any of these beauties!

Mwahahahaha!! All mine (and a pesky toddler who refuses to sleep)

Eckhart go for it ! Dragon's Den style. You could throw the packages of sweets through a downstairs window to avoid the shame of the pyjama wearers having to answer the front door. The delivery drivers would be dressed all in black, with balaclavas, like the guy from the Milk Tray advert years ago.

@SchadenfreudePersonified - well done, here you go - catch! 

@nicenewdusters Long story, short version - I had lots of people ask me what I wanted for Christmas, but I genuinely could not think of anything, so I just said 'A box of maltesers will be lovely' and a lot of people took me at my word and I ended up with more than 10, but gave some away Now, would you like me to throw one to you?

I thought I was having a lovely evening - pjs, toasty toes at the fire, glass of wine- until I opened this thread, only to come face to face with my existential malteserlessness.

Enjoy lotus - you earned those. No forgiveness for those who were on sweet duty but "forgot".

Reborn are you hiding them in a takeaway box? Nice thinking. Could you spare 5 or 6 to make a trail for your toddler to follow into their room.....

They do taste better from a box, it must be psychological.

IMO twix and malteasers are the best sweets by a long shot

Yum!

AntsDeck I love that story, and that you have friends/family who took you at your word, and didn't buy you Bayliss and Harding instead. And yes please, throw me one (one box or one sweet?)

bakedbeanz after I had my first DD all I wanted to eat were twixs 😆 they are indeed the best with malteasers.

I need Maltesers now, Only got one Snickers bar to eat later.!