A question for the learned members of theFretBoard

snakemanStoo

We opened a tub of celebrations (other multi-packs of sweets are available) and were reminded of elderly relatives habits of putting empty wrappers back in their tubs of sweets.

My question is are we of the household Stoo wrong in finding this habit utterly abhorrent?

Supplemental question is do any of you peoples do it? 

randella

No, it's wrong.  </thread>

RandallFlagg

The mistake you make is buying Celebrations in the first place, Quality Street is where it's at and don't get me started on Roses, they are total garbage.

Also, you shouldn't be offering them around, tell interfering older relatives that they are for the children and they should know better.

DesVegas

What does "putting empty wrappers back in their versions!" actually mean?

snakemanStoo

DesVegas said:

What does "putting empty wrappers back in their versions!" actually mean?

That my mind was wandering while I was typing.

ThorpyFX

RandallFlagg said:

The mistake you make is buying Celebrations in the first place, Quality Street is where it's at and don't get me started on Roses, they are total garbage.

Also, you shouldn't be offering them around, tell interfering older relatives that they are for the children and they should know better.

Agreed, older relatives should only be offered mint humbugs or werthers originals.

DesVegas

Roger that, carry on

BRISTOL86

I'm guilty of this crime! Pure laziness on my part! 

But agreed with the above - the real crime is buying celebrations!

Moe_Zambeek

Let's face it - it's a handy receptacle for the used wrappers, co-located with the consumer and negating the need to waste energy going to find a bin. 

CHRISB50

It annoys me. My wife does it. 

Celebrations, Quality Street. Even After Eights. 

REMOVE WRAPPER. THROW WRAPPER IN THE BIN FFS. 

randella

RandallFlagg said:

The mistake you make is buying Celebrations in the first place, Quality Street is where it's at and don't get me started on Roses, they are total garbage.

Also, you shouldn't be offering them around, tell interfering older relatives that they are for the children and they should know better.

Hahaha, those are some strong chocolate opinions.  Were you locked in the coal shed as a kid and only fed Roses? 

Fretwired

RandallFlagg said:

The mistake you make is buying Celebrations in the first place, Quality Street is where it's at and don't get me started on Roses, they are total garbage.

Also, you shouldn't be offering them around, tell interfering older relatives that they are for the children and they should know better.

Quality Street was where it was at until the Yanks bought the company that make them and screwed around with a well-proven formula.

BRISTOL86

The Roses of my childhood were a thing of beauty. Now they're really crap and have changed so many times that they're completely indistinguishable from what they once were. Like pretty much everything else Cadbury, sadly.  And don't get me started on the ever reducing tub size vs cost equation! 

The one that has stayed pretty consistently good through all the years is Quality Street! Hardly ever change the contents or wrappers so still feels traditional for Christmas! 

Celebrations are are totally pointless as a Christmas thing for me. They're just small versions of normal chocolate bars which you can eat all year anyway! 

Until writing this I never knew I felt so strongly about such things. Good grief! 

DesVegas

The good thing about Celebrations is that you can get 2 parts Milky Way, 1 part Twix and 3 parts Mars Bar in your gob all at once.  sticky goodness

FX_Munkee

Doing this in a tub of Quality Rose Celebrations is punishable by beating.
Do it in a box of After Eights and it's weights on the ankles and down to the lake.

capo4th

We only eat Thorntons so I have no experience of these items 

Jalapeno

CHRISB50 said:

It annoys me. My wife does it. 

Celebrations, Quality Street. Even After Eights. 

REMOVE WRAPPER. THROW WRAPPER IN THE BIN FFS. 

MORE SO with After Eights !!!!!!!!!!!

Sporky

Surely with After Eights you flatten out a bit of toothpaste, bake until slightly solid, coat in Marmite and put back?

Sesh

Why would you put the wrapper back, when you can roll it up and throw it a someone?

FX_Munkee

Sesh said:

Why would you put the wrapper back, when you can roll it up and throw it a someone?

And this is another black mark against celebrations, you can't make a proper wrapper dart from those.

HAL9000

Nearly all Cadbury's products are horrible since Kraft or whoever it is took them over and changed the recipes. Mrs900 used to love Creme Eggs but won't touch them now. I had a bar of Cadbury's Fruit'n'nut recently and it's tasting more like Hershey's (i.e. nothing like chocolate). I'm sure the Christmas tubs will be just as nasty regardless of whether or not elderly relatives insist on putting the wrappers back in the tub.