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?

@sunshineandshowers21

i can never open the second layer until the first is completely finished either. luckily i have kids who’ll eat anything so they finish off the chocolates i don’t like and i get to move on to the next layer

I couldn't read past 'they finish off the chocolates I don't like' tbh

Not biscuits. Chocolates. Mind you I do it with Christmas cheese and sweet biscuits too.

And I get a real frisson every time I do it.

@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,

For exactly this reason we have a layer each. Unliked ones are traded for liked ones by negotiation. He still ends up with a couple extra as there are a few he doesn't particularly like, but will eat, that I hate, but this way I get a fair share of the caramel ones.

To get full and proper enjoyment from a box of chocolates you have to eat all your favourites first. You'll enjoy the others far more because when you get a chocolate craving and there's no other chocolate in the house, those second raters will taste like heaven.

Sadly, boxes of chocolates annoy me now.
So many of the chocolates are just lazy pralines that all taste the same. Too many have coffee in them which I hate and the chocolate coating is greasy and unpleasant ( palm oil?)

Newbracelet, that is a new approach and philosophy on me! It's interesting. I tend to save the best ones for last, but now I think about it it's quite risky. What if I went under a bus before I'd had a chance to eat them?!?

TBH though I hardly ever have boxed chocolates; I go in more for bars, or sometimes bags of those fancy-brand chocolate buttons. Although this thread is making me crave some rose and/or violet creams...

A box each is the only way to go OP. In an ideal world, you could swop out ones you don't like from your box to ones from your DH's box that he doesn't like. Even better if you have two different boxes and get more variety.

If on a diet, it's a layer each from one box and swop as far as possible, as above. But no, YANBU. There's always one or two nasty ones you just don't like.

Why would you eat chocolates you don't even like when there are delicious better ones beneath? I always leave about half of them when bought a box of chocs because they ruin it by including hard toffee, coffee, strawberry, fudge, orange or honeycomb and other such abominations, when they ought to be packing the box with proper truffley chocolates.

Which boxes of chocolates are free from palm oil - can anyone recommend? I'm trying to cut back on palm oil as they chop down forests in order to grow it.

@CCC1

Who are you sick bastards who insist all the fucking vomit inducing soft centres need to be eaten before you go below deck? Get in the bin.

🤣

I'd just empty them all out into the box so there are no layers and it's like a lovely little surprise pick and mix

I would just eat what I wanted. If he’s that bothered tell him to get his own box 😂

@Magicpaintbrush

Which boxes of chocolates are free from palm oil - can anyone recommend? I'm trying to cut back on palm oil as they chop down forests in order to grow it.

Google will give you lists of palm oil free stuff, sometimes it also gives you details of crap containing it but it is there if you have the patience to look.

Do not be taken in by brands that have some palm oil free chocolate, it is not always palm oil free throughout the range. I have been given that foul Green & Black muck that tastes like cardboard because some of it had no palm oil, sadly a lot of it did and it is also owned by the most unethical company. Avoid Mondelez and you are off to a good start.

Which boxes of chocolates are free from palm oil - can anyone recommend? I'm trying to cut back on palm oil as they chop down forests in order to grow it.

Start your own thread and get off this one!

it's a SIN ... but I have made my peace with it and so should you all.

Dh knows if I am offering him my chocolates I have eaten all the best ones :0

As an aside, an abiding memory of UNFAIRNESS from my childhood was my brother whining about not wanting the pink wafers left in the first layer of the box of Family Circle, when it was his turn to choose first, and instead of enforcing the rules my mother tipped them out onto the second layer and he had the chocolate digestive instead.