To wonder why a box of Thorntons choc is considered the worst (choc) gift

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Received one and didn't realise it's supposedly an insult until everyone else's reaction

I also prefer Hotel Chocolat but got a box of Thornton's continental for Christmas and I'm looking forward to getting stuck into them. As a previous poster has said Thornton's do the best fudge chocolates although they don't put them in the continentals unfortunately!!

For those wondering about alpinis, I've just checked and you can buy a bag online for £3.50. They have a sale on too and I'm quite tempted to buy myself this: www.thorntons.co.uk/chocolate-boxes/nut-and-praline-collection-77204479.html?cgid=chocolate-boxes#start=9&cgid=chocolate-boxes

One and only present to your mum? Not ok due to lack of effort and thought put into it.

Depends what your mum likes though, doesn’t it?

My dad, for example, really likes Celebrations. If someone gets him a box of more upmarket chocolates - including Thornton’s, Hotel Chocolate, and mega expensive luxury brands - he’ll typically talk mournfully to us about how they could have got him a bigger box of Celebrations for the same amount of money.

So I got him the biggest tub of Celebrations I could find this Christmas.
Even though I expect most people would consider a tub of Celebrations a gift that takes less effort and thought than any box of Thornton’s.

I’m sure that there are mum’s out there who like Thornton’s best 🤷‍♀️

I like Thornton’s chocolates and would be happy to get a box.

There was a thread on here a few months back about a woman who bought her mother a box of Lindor chocolates (amongst other presents) for her birthday and some posters called them ‘cheap supermarket chocs’. It made me laugh. I love Lindor and consider them a lovely treat.

I like Thorntons, and I spent 13 years in Belgium, so have eaten the gamut from Leonidas to Pierre Marcolini. My favourite is Neuhaus, but at €78 per kg, I can have more Thorntons.

Some Hotel Chocolat is OK, but I am picky about fillings.

They lost their specialness when they went into supermarkets but they are still my faves as they are mostly pralines which is my fave type of choc. Definitely better than milk tray/ quality street.

Anybody think galaxy doesn't even taste like chocolate?

Not any more it doesn't.

It's like lard.

@Didyousaynutella I've argued this with DH. The Thorntons shop in my town didn't reopen after the first lockdown. He blames the fact that Hotel Chocolat opened a shop opposite Thorntons 3 or 4 years ago. I argued that I stopped using the Thorntons shop long before HC opened when it became easier to sling a box of Thorntons in the trolley in Tesco or Asda than to make a visit to the shop. The Thorntons shop also looked very tatty and dated compared to the slicker, more modern look HC have. Thorntons carried on doing good business on ice creams in the summer until a spate of independent high end "gelato" parlours opened in the town too.

You know what?

Because of this thread I opened the box of Thornton’s I got for Christmas. Purely in the interests of research, you understand.

They’re lovely. I’ve eaten seven of the buggers in the last five minutes.

There was a thread on here a few months back about a woman who bought her mother a box of Lindor chocolates (amongst other presents) for her birthday and some posters called them ‘cheap supermarket chocs’. It made me laugh. I love Lindor and consider them a lovely treat.

I had a Lindor advent calendar this year, only mini Lindors though. I love them and would never consider anything Lindt to be crap chocolate.

Thorntons carried on doing good business on ice creams in the summer until a spate of independent high end "gelato" parlours opened in the town too.

Actually quite refreshing to hear that independents have taken down a chain!

The problem with them is they used to be much better quality in the 1980s than they are now. They have made them cheaper and cheaper over the years with an inevitable plunge in quality. They are horrendously over-sweet, dry, bland and stale tasting compared to quality chocolates. It’s such a shame. I used to adore their Viennese truffles and Diplomats. My heart sinks now if I open a present and it’s Thornton’s!

I think we should all be thankful we don't have to eat American chocolate! 🤢
I am partial to a Ferrero Rocher or a bit of Lindt. One Xmas I bought some pretty boxes of lavender chocolates in Tesco. I think the boxes were pink with gold pattern all over them. I've tried googling but can't find anything like it! Not sure who made them either - they were delicious!

Prestat is a premium brand in pink and gold packaging.

Ooh, it could have been! Doesn't look like they do lavender ones though, at least not anymore 😞. Wish I'd saved a box for reference!!

Well this is a revelation. I mean for me chocolates wouldn't be a great gift but I don't generally eat them at all so it would be odd for someone close to me to buy it (I got pecans for Christmas that i was delighted with ) but if someone else bought me thorntons I wouldn't see it as a crap gift (and DP and DC would be delighted to have them passed to them)

Oooh I just realised I still think of them as posh. Clearly I am stuck in the 90's where it would be a massive treat to have thorntons. I'm a bit sad they have gone downhill. Haven't eaten them in decades are they really that bad?

My son bought me a big box of Thornton’s. I thought it was really lovely of him.

I didn't even know this was a thing. I love Thornton's chocolates, and my mum gets me some as part of my present for every occasion, because she knows they're my favourites, and I very much look forward to them!

I used to work at hotel chocolat - and there was a lot of chocolate snobbery going on 😂

I remember in training my manager said 'walk into a Thornton's shop and you smell chocolate, you can't smell chocolate here though because what you smell in Thornton's is sugar.' Generally they have a lower coco amount and higher sugar, and that's what makes them cheap. I also got told off for saying 'hotel chocolate' not 'chocolat' 😂

. I also got told off for saying 'hotel chocolate' not 'chocolat'

Did you also have to say 'Otel rather than Hotel? The French pronunciation of the second word is clearly indicated by the lack of an 'e'; the first should therefore surely match but I think I've only heard it pronounced the English way.

@SophieGiroux

What is Tony's chocolate like? I've seen it in Sainsbury's but balked at the price! I might consider it if it's worth it.

I like it.

It reminds me of what Dairy Milk used to taste like before Cadbury sold its soul to Kraft.

I’m not a fan of the stupid breakage line pattern though.

Tony's Chocoleny is great, and ensures it's ethical chocolate. Worth paying the extra for.

Ritter Sport and Milka are good too.

Perfectly nice high street chocs I would say.

I just got introduced to their mini millionaire shortbreads. Sugar-tastic and quite wonderful.

Elsewhere, someone mentioned their DM had given them marmite chocolate.
Surely that has to be the all-time winner of the worst choc gift?

gave Thornton’s to my ex husband’s mother’s ex boyfriend’s new girlfriend. For that relationship - it’s fine 🤣

Let me guess, is that a funny way to get back at your ex mother in law who contributed to the falling apart of your marriage ?

Because that’s funny