Lack of new choc this Christmas?

[smurfboy]

Is it me, or are there normally more new products launched in the run-up to Xmas? Does anyone else think they've been a bit thin on the ground this year?

After Nestle's finger burning episode a while back (was that 1 or 2 years ago now!?) the manufacturers are playing it straight down the middle and taking no chances at all, it seems to me.

I think it is a shame as praline, toffee and nuts do become pretty boring after a while.

Consumer panels must have told them to concentrate on tablets this year.

[loulou]

I'm not a big chocolate brazil fan but the ones from Ringtons are lovely so I'll be looking for them this week.

[oldspice]

I had to laugh. The tin of Quality Street in our office promised 'two new sweets'. Right. Yes. They were 'chocolate block' and 'toffee delux'.  Fancy putting toffees in Quality Street.

 

The dirty, filthy bastards! 

[goldencup]

  Apparently a new shop, wittily called 'Sweeties' has opened near me, selling handmade chocs and sweets.  Must pay it a visit before the Big Day.

[Dansak]

Nestle and Cadburys are both extremely boring chocolate companies. The low cocoa content annoys me, I got Chocolate Buttons last week for the first time in ages. 20% cocoa mass. That's tragic. Tasted of flavourings not chocolate.

This week I has been mostly eating flavourings.

[oldspice]

Is that be really you Paulham? Is you really blonde? Not ginger?

 

 

Hmmm, ginger you say?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ewwww! Gingey! That's gross!

[oldspice]

Some of the world's great beauties have been redheads.

T'is true.

Actually, I do agree, Oldspice.

The thing is, I don't recall ever seeing a plain looking ginger haired person.

I only recall seeing the extremes.

[Dansak]

Ginger Nuts

[loulou]

There's some ginger haired kids live by my mam and she calls them carrot tops.

[Dansak]

But carrot tops are green