Dare I? Would you?

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<Lighthearted thread... >
Opened my own box of chocolates... Mother's day gift..
I have eaten my favourite ones..
Dare I Go Downstairs when the top ones aren't all gone?
I can almost hear my aunt turning in her grave...
What odd habits/foibles. do you stick to that you don't need to as a Grown Up?

I'd completely forgotten that rule, but it was definitely a rule.

In some ways, I think life was better then. Small treats were bigger iyswim. I think you need to honour your Aunt and follow the rule.

Dooooo it, doooo it!!!

I remember making a plumble once. I decided to put sprinkles on it. 'Are we allowed to do that?!' says my housemate. 'Allowed?! Who's going to stop us??'.

The next morning she had sprinkles on her porridge.

Honestly I think adulting needs more of this, otherwise kid you is definitely silently judging that you're not making the most of the experience 😂

I'd forgotten that too, but it was certainly the way a tin of biscuits had to be eaten. If you timed it right, someone else 'had' to eat the pink wafers before the chocolate biscuits underneath became fair game.

Having the first cup of coffee when I make a pot. I use a cafetière.

Embrace the freedom - you can eat it anyway you want to. I enjoy adulthood so much more than childhood 😂

I’m not sure I understand the plot here. If I had a box of chocolates that were a gift for me, I would eat them all.

When you said go downstairs I literally thought you meant go downstairs - I was thinking, is someone else going to eat the rest of the top ones while you're downstairs or something?

Now I see you mean eating the bottom layer before you've finished the top layer and I think you should do exactly as you please. Keep in mind you will be left with all the crappy ones at the end though!

Off topic, but what's a plumble?

But yes, do it!

Yeah. Did you mean a crumble?

Anyway, that is the best way (imo) to eat a box of chocolates. Eat them in best to least favourites. I do anyway.
And now I want chocolates.

Hang on, you were given these chocolates in MARCH and you've not even finished the top layer?

Is it a cutesy name for a plum crumble?

I do the opposite, eat my least favourite first and then savour the best ones....hoping no-one else comes in so I don't have to share them!

That isn't what the OP means. She's talking about eating chocolates from the bottom layer of the box before she's finished the ones on the top layer.

But isn't there a chance one of the kids will find your chocolate hidey place and snaffle the best ones before you can eat them? Happens. Seem to recall a thread where someone's DH had done it, and a divorce was mentioned.

I thought that. I love a plumb crumble. One third fruit with two thirds crunchy, buttery crumble.

Also gooseberry crumble.
Also rhubarb crumble
Also cherry crumble

Apple crumble - meh. 🌹

I have stashed the opened box. Dd 18 has seen the wrapping and enquired where they were... Stashed well.. They remain undetected..
I haven't been Downstairs yet...
But tbh there aren't many I like. The dc know they get any strawberry ones - allergic though can't imagine the % of an actually sb is reaction level!!
Aunt ate Black Magic only. I still remember the elongated orange cream one...

I always eat the shit ones first to get them outta the way😁

Nope. I have to eat the top layer first.

Ha it's what lazy people (aka me) call a plum crumble

I also thought you literally meant downstairs.

personally I eat from either layer as I please.

Just switch the two layers in the box over. Once you've eaten all the favourites from the new top layer, you can play a square-peg-round-hole game with the rest and try to fit them all into one layer.

I have never done this of course I have.

I thought you meant actually physically downstairs and was going to say no keep them in your bedroom otherwise everyone else will eat them 😂😂

More fun to hide them in plain sight!!

Not just licking the spoon - but actually eating some (quite a lot) of the cake mix ! 😮

Wouldn't dare until well into my 30s 😂