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

[Siw2020]

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

@cushioncovers

Any chocolate is a lame gift for an adult that can afford to buy their own imo, if I want chocolate I would just buy some.

You could say that about any gift that you can afford.

@Siw2020

Oh I'm not complaining, I actually quite like them! In fact I think I gifted a personalized box to DP years and years ago...

How has this commonly become known to a be shit chocolate gift? Why is hotel chocolat supposedly the best....

Ingredient quality. There’s a lot of marketing going on of course, but ingredient quality of Hotel Chocolat is above that of Thornton’s and Dairy Milk. I’m not saying that it’s enough to justify the price difference - as I say, marketing!

Of course everyone has their own taste - personally, no HC can beat a Quality Street strawberry creme for me! But the quality of HC is higher.

I think Thornton’s come in for stick these days as it’s positioned as a “luxury” for the gifting market, but it really isn’t enough above Dairy Milk in quality to really justify that label. So people deride it as being a bit wannabe.

It’s just a universal symbol of, “I don’t know what to get you but a marketing department told me this is posh enough to be a gift.”

I got a huge box of Milk Tray as a work secret santa gift once. Cue lots of jokes about the Milk Tray man.

Bars. Not bats.

No chocolate bats to be seen here.

@cushioncovers

Any chocolate is a lame gift for an adult that can afford to buy their own imo, if I want chocolate I would just buy some.

What magical item would you like to be bought for a tenner that you couldn’t buy for yourself?

Do people genuinely think like this? About Thornton’s, milk tray, Baylis and Harding?

People are dick heads.

I think it's only on here that Thorntons is seen by some as unwanted. There seems to be a disproportionate amount of chocolate snobbery on here and in fact if it's not handmade, organic and 10 times the price of normal chocolate it simply won't do.

To be honest I can hardly tell the difference between Thorntons, Green and Black, Galaxy, Milk Tray etc. They all taste like chocolate to me.

I was bought a lovely box of Thorntons by my new boss. I'm very happy with it and have quite happily munched my way through most of the box now (occasionally allowing DH and DCs a look in - although the DCs are mostly going for the tub of Celebrations which suits me just fine).

I used to like them, particularly diplomat/alpini but they've definitely gone downhill a lot and just taste oily to me. I'd far rather have a small box of Hotel Chocolat because their chocolate still tastes good.

Hotel Chocat is shit. £25 for a box of vile chocolates mixed with random shit I do not like, want, or think to mix with chocolate.. no.
Give me the Thorntons

They used to be very posh.

@formerbabe

Although I do love the Viennese one...

Me too, was so excited when I discovered they made small bars of them.

@LunaNorth spot on, I think now they are not thought of as anything special.

Shirley there's loads of personal/quirky gifts out there for under a tenner but it requires a bit of thought. Chocolate is a lazy option. Just my opinion.

If folk want to be snobby and insist that their cacao beans are shat out by unicorns before being fermented in the tears of Santa’s elves and melted into bats by the blushes of 49 virgins, then so be it.

Now that made me laugh out loud. Not bats though. Dear God no - we don't want some chocolate bat CocoaCovid21 to be spawned.

Well I like them, Thorntons chocolates are always wanted by me!

There are far, far worse. Ferrero Rocher for instance.

@LunaNoth I was going to say just that! In the 80s/90s they were very expensive and posh.

Thornton's Continental are great. Better than Cadbury (fatty & not really chocolate anymore), or Guylian or Lindt (too sickly).

Definitely welcome

Thornton's tastes plasticky to me.

I'm not a fan of thorntons, but they're better than after 8s.
I think years ago Thorntons were supposed to be a more superior type of chocolate but now you can get them everywhere they're not really any more exclusive than quality street.

Now that made me laugh out loud. Not bats though. Dear God no - we don't want some chocolate bat CocoaCovid21 to be spawned.

Abso-bloody-lutely

@Buddytheelf85

I’m panicking now because I gave our cleaner a box of Milk Tray (plus a healthy tip). I absolutely didn’t mean to insult her.

I wouldn't worry. You'd have to be an absolute arse to be insulted by receiving any gift.... I was surprised that it seemed to be common knowledge across 3 generations when I opened mine

I was trying to explain to my foreign husband the brand thing, and how some items have come to mean "couldn't be arsed to think about what you might actually like, so bought these, coz they were neither the cheapest nor the most expensive box of chocolates in the shop"... I think that's the category I'd put thorntons in. Along with those Belgian sea shells.

I had a Hotel Chocolat hamper when my first child was born. I had no idea they were meant to be a luxury brand and thought they weren't very nice. Give me a liquorice allsort over chocolate any day.

The bags for £1 in pound shops and the tills at smiths were a bit of a downmarket move I suppose, but (unless they've changed the recipe since I last had one) the dark mint crunch blocks are delicious.

www.thorntons.co.uk/chocolate-blocks/mint-crunch-dark-chocolate-block-77176919.html