To open the second layer in the chocolate box before the first is finished

[ChocolateBoxWars]

The first layer has been denuded of all the good ones. Only the nasty ones remain.

Beneath the crackling black paper lies a whole fresh layer including all the nice ones.

But something in me tells me that it’s wrong to open the second layer when the first isn’t empty (even if some of the nasty ones would fit neatly into the slots of their more delicious cousins and disguise the crime).

WIBU?

This is exactly why the world is in such a mess!

You can do it when sharing box so long as you both get equal access to them, so if there're two of each and you've had yours from the top layer then you may proceed to the next layer. This is an actual quote from the actual rule book.

What's the point of eating nasty chocolates?

@LakieLady

DP does this and it gives me the .

He doesn't like nutty chocolates, and eats about 3x as much chocolate as I do. By the time I've finished off the nutty ones in the top layer, all that's left in the bottom layer is more nutty ones.

I never the get the lovely caramel ones, fudge, the cherry one in Black Magic which is lush, or any of the creamy ones.

Mind you, since they've increased the amount of palm oil in chocolate to the point where it hardly tastes of chocolate at all, we're both a bit off it. I have to buy chocolate from Aldi and Lidl or pay through the nose for posh chocolate. The Germans seem to be far too sensible to adulterate their chocolate in this way,

I had one like this.

Would eat everything except the nut ones and all I'd ever be left with was nut chocolate. But I LIKE the others...

Divorce is the only answer. That or the patio.

YANBU at all - especially if it’s for the coffee ones!

The answers have really made me laugh

Its the only way to do it. I eat them in order of which ones I like best. I leave all the shitty ones till the end. I tell myself I don't really like them so won't eat them, but I always do eventually.

YANU but it’s perfectly legit to throw the coffee cream away.

I don't understand some of the posts on this thread. Could someone kindly please explain ehat the following mean:

It’s for me and DH (especially the "and DH" part)
sharing (as in, a box of chocolates)

Thank you so much.

If they are really horrible - the bad chocolates go in the bin, otherwise eat the nice ones from the second layer and fill in the gaps with the meh ones from the top.

It’s only slightly cheating.

YADNBU

How else would you get the second green chartreuse one enrobed in a little fake chocolate drawstring bag?

Life's too short to waste on the crap chocolates.

YANBU unless you are depriving someone else by eating all your joint favourites!

You did what?! That's not allowed!

Life is too short to eat the crap chocolates... Bin them off and get to the good ones

We bring both layers out at same time and share the 'nice ones' ..... in your shoes I would do it do it do it

If you're lucky, someone else in the household will like the ones you think are crap.

I like strawberry creams (yes I know they're sickly and weird, but I like them), so I hoover those up and my DP eats the toffee and crunchy things that I'm not into.

Only acceptable if they are for you alone, unacceptable for shared chocs

Yanbu!!!! Everyone knows it's soft centres first, solids next, toffees last.. at least in my house!

If they are yours then do what you like.

Shared, and it's okay if only a few unwanted chocolates are left on the top, but let others know you have started on the next layer so they are not left waiting for the unwanted chocolates to be gone first!

It's not okay just to pick out your favourites from both layers of a shared box, unless you know no one else likes them.

A nasty chocolate? Not a thing.

Honestly, how COULD you not work this out before you got married? You marry a man who doesn’t like the chocolates you hate and you’ll end up reaping what you’ve sown, which sure as fuck isn’t a field of your favorite chocolates. Too late now. You’ll have to keep the chocolates, bin the DH, and start from scratch. Only option.

What if the box was just one big layer? There would be no guilt about tucking into seconds of your favourite flavour.

Surely the only reason there is two layers is to save cardboard and space on the supermarket shelf.

YANBU tuck in and enjoy.

Ooh, this upsets my sense of order. I'd find it hard to cope with that, so YABU!

The Germans seem to be far too sensible to adulterate their chocolate in this way,

Be careful if you buy Mr Choc from Lidl. I just got caught out with some of them containing palm oil. You need to read the ingredients list these days.