diff --git a/content/posts/truly-chocolates/index.md b/content/posts/truly-chocolates/index.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..d49e3c82 --- /dev/null +++ b/content/posts/truly-chocolates/index.md @@ -0,0 +1,37 @@ +--- +title: "Yule's Chocolates" +emoji: 🍫 +date: 2025-01-14T12:10:59.087Z +tags: +- chocolate +- review +- Christmas +summary: "I judge these Christmassy chocolates Not Quality Enough (most of the time)" +topics: +- Reflections +--- +Here I am, two weeks into 2025, and I've reached the _Quality Street Watershed_. I've nibbled my way through all the "good" ones, those remaining after we were given one at our Christmassy gathering, and now each colourful chocolate I unwrap is just the _slightest_ bit disappointing. + +Naturally there is a pecking (scoffing?) order to these treats, and I decided to rank them as I worked my way through: + +| Name (Count[^1]) | Notes | +|--------------------------------------|--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------| +| **Orange Chocolate Crunch** (5) | The undeniable best. These were gone before I blinked. | +| **The Green Triangle** (4) | Hazelnutty deliciousness. Yes please. | +| **The Purple One** (6) | Surprised me with tastiness. I'd normally leave these lower down the list! | +| **Milk Chocolate Block** (4) | Solid chocolatey punch. Dependable. Probably in the mid-highs on everyone's list. | +| **Caramel Swirl** (8) | I prefer my chocs with a bit of a bite, so the caramel innards lower this a little, but still delicious. | +| | | +| **Orange Creme** (7) | Just a little too intense to be good enough for the faves. You could probaby twist my arm though. | +| **Fudge** (6) | So plain. So dry‽ Meh incarnate. | +| **Coconut Eclair** (7) | Coconut shouldn't exist in chocolate form. I'm looking at you too Bounty. But at least it's still chocolate. | +| **Toffee Penny** (6) | IT'S IN MY TEETH. | +| **Toffee Finger** (6) | Chewy in summer, but rock hard an impenetrable in their native time of year. Or maybe I | +| **Strawberry Delight** (7) | I refuse to accept that anyone finds these tasty. _NOPE._ | + +That gap in the middle? That's the watershed. Once I've eaten down the list that far I know that the holiday season is truly over, and it's time to embrace the new year. + +Though I didn't count what came in _this_ tin[^1], I'm also cynically unsurprised that my "worth eating" chocs are only 5 of the 11 types[^2], and make up even less by count at just 40% of the tin! Here's to having friends with different tastes & sharing with them 😅 + +[^1]: I didn't count mine — they were a gift during a house party we were throwing and it seemed… perhaps a _tad_ antisocial to count them right then, or to forbid anyone from eating them that night 😅 These counts are from [the first search result](https://www.gazettelive.co.uk/whats-on/counted-every-chocolate-quality-street-30527339) that claimed to have counted them this winter. +[^2]: Yes, the post's title is also a 5 letter anagram of the 11 unique letters in "quality street". So "clever" is this reference that I have to explain it. In detail.