After Eights

[Aworldofmyown]

Is it just me or do they taste like crap this year?
My favourite thing at Christmas and I'm likely to throw the box away 😔

They’re only good for playing the game where you put one on your forehead and have to get it in your mouth without using your hands

I was given after eight sticks in a tube box this year. I've never had them before but the chocolate was waxy & the ratio of chocolate to fondant was wrong. The chocolate didn't have that crisp snap I associate with actual after eights. I didn't like them at all.

After eights are my go to crap chocolate - love them!

Totally! Had some for my birthday and they were greasy and weird, and nowhere near as crisp and minty as they used to be. Really weren't nice, I threw them away in the end.

YWBU to just waste them and throw them in the bin.

@dudsville

After eights are my go to crap chocolate - love them!

Shame you're not near me! I bought a box of the 'gin & tonic' ones to try, I can't tell the difference & I'm not keen. There's too much fondant & they're not the & snappy. Disappointing.

Break them up and use to make chocolate mint vodka, remove some vodka from a bottle and replace it with the after eights. Keep in a warm place, shame daily, until the chocolate dissolves.

Bendicks are better. Or the Elizabeth thingummy ones.

I got some of those seahorse shaped chocolates this year. They were shite! Ate 3 then palmed the rest off on my exH

@goose1964 also works putting the bottle (tightly sealed obviously) in the dishwasher. Other harder sweets like Turkish Pepper Liquorish are nice too. 🙂

They aren't properly minty! I used to love AEs, but they are no good any more. I much prefer Bendicks Bittermints, which taste of proper chocolate and actual mint!

Seem fine to me. But then there are lots of threads where people say all chocolate tastes like crap these days and I've never noticed any difference.

Do they still make them?

I thought they hit their peak when Abigail's Party was still showing for the first time.

@goose1964

Break them up and use to make chocolate mint vodka, remove some vodka from a bottle and replace it with the after eights. Keep in a warm place, shame daily, until the chocolate dissolves.

How would you do this? By saying you cheap, greasy excuse for a dark chocolate over and over again or had you something else in mind?

I absolutely love After Eights. Had some in November, and they were fine, but I eat them dunked in a cup of coffee so I clearly have no taste.

Yep me and DH both said this when we had a box over Christmas. They were smaller, not as minty and sort of chewy. Definitely not the same.

@goose1964

Break them up and use to make chocolate mint vodka, remove some vodka from a bottle and replace it with the after eights. Keep in a warm place, shame daily, until the chocolate dissolves.

what do you do to shame them daily?

what do you do to shame them daily?

Tell them they're not as good as they used to be.

How would you do this? By saying you cheap, greasy excuse for a dark chocolate over and over again or had you something else in mind?

They seemed fine to me, I didn't notice anything different.

Most chocolate seems to be crappy.

I had the Lidl version this year. They were lovely.

My sense of taste still isn't fully right since May, but I still polished of a box and had a couple of the G&T ones, all tasted the same to me.
Todays Chistmas choccy os a giant toblerone, white one, it's delicious.

Try the Sainsbury's version, they're infinitely superior!