A question for the learned members of theFretBoard

EricTheWeary

Wrap the chocolate wrapper around your finger and shape into a tiny goblet and leave on any spare surface.

Leave After Eight wrappers in the box so that gradually finding the chocolates becomes a game of chance. 

CHRISB50

Jalapeno said:

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 !!!!!!!!!!!

Indeed. It's like going through a filing cabinet if you start leaving the wrappers in the After Eights box.

I must admit to similar (maybe worse) behaviour when I was a kid, at Christmas time.

I've never particularly liked peanuts themselves, but I like the initial salty taste of salted peanuts. So I used to suck the salt off the peanuts and put them back in the bowl.

randella

CHRISB50 said:

I've never particularly liked peanuts themselves, but I like the initial salty taste of salted peanuts. So I used to suck the salt off the peanuts and put them back in the bowl.

It's a particularly dirty trick with After Eights but, ladies and gents, we have a winner!

You big minger!

TheBlueWolf

As pointed out, buying Celebrations is criminal. While buying a similarly sized receptacle containing sweets suggests sharing the deliciousness, they are clearly meant for solitary consumption

Wazmeister

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.

Bang on - wisdom awarded 

CHRISB50

randella said:

CHRISB50 said:

I've never particularly liked peanuts themselves, but I like the initial salty taste of salted peanuts. So I used to suck the salt off the peanuts and put them back in the bowl.

It's a particularly dirty trick with After Eights but, ladies and gents, we have a winner!

You big minger!

I am a big minger now! Many would agree with you.

In my defence the above behaviour was when I was about 5 or 6

randella

CHRISB50 said:

randella said:

CHRISB50 said:

I've never particularly liked peanuts themselves, but I like the initial salty taste of salted peanuts. So I used to suck the salt off the peanuts and put them back in the bowl.

It's a particularly dirty trick with After Eights but, ladies and gents, we have a winner!

You big minger!

I am a big minger now! Many would agree with you.

In my defence the above behaviour was when I was about 5 or 6

that came off harsher than I intended I think @CHRISB50

I don't think there's an adult human alive who can truthfully claim to have committed no mingery whatsoever at that age.  I certainly couldn't.

I stick by my point about the After Eights/empty wrappers though, it's a rogues' trick.

stimpsonslostson

I do it with After Eights purely because I know how much it messes with MrsLostSon. 

breakstuff

I grabbed a Hazelnut Whirl out of a tub of Roses at work the other night.My god,what have they done to them!Tasted like chewing washing up liquid,leaving a horrible aftertaste that lasted for an hour.Tried a different chocolate and it was just the same.I know I'm full of cold and my taste buds are shot to pieces but it's so disappointing how much they've changed in even just the last year.Needless to say I've asked the wife not to grab a tub for Christmas.We'll stick to Aldi chocolate. Much nicer.

CHRISB50

randella said:

CHRISB50 said:

randella said:

CHRISB50 said:

I've never particularly liked peanuts themselves, but I like the initial salty taste of salted peanuts. So I used to suck the salt off the peanuts and put them back in the bowl.

It's a particularly dirty trick with After Eights but, ladies and gents, we have a winner!

You big minger!

I am a big minger now! Many would agree with you.

In my defence the above behaviour was when I was about 5 or 6

that came off harsher than I intended I think @CHRISB50

I don't think there's an adult human alive who can truthfully claim to have committed no mingery whatsoever at that age.  I certainly couldn't.

I stick by my point about the After Eights/empty wrappers though, it's a rogues' trick.

Haha. Don't be silly man. I agree. It's a dirty old thing to do. I was only little though. 

As you said. Most of us have done something pretty manky as a kid at some point or another. I just chose to post it on an Internet forum

dogload

EricTheWeary said:

Wrap the chocolate wrapper around your finger and shape into a tiny goblet and leave on any spare surface.

Leave After Eight wrappers in the box so that gradually finding the chocolates becomes a game of chance. 

Have you been spying on me?!

Col_Decker

I'm a wrapper returner. But I take it to the next level by stuffing one wrapper with the previously discarded wrappers of other sweets, then you pick up a sweet thinking it full of chocolate. I am like a God of mischief. 

RandallFlagg

The Quality Street chocolate covered toffee finger is a thing of pure joy

Jimbro66

snakemanStoo said:

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? 

This practice goes back to the post-war years of rationing when a deposit was placed on many reusable items, like 2d on a beer bottle. Sweet wrappers were returned to the confectioner for reuse and the incentive was 1d for a dozen wrappers. That's why the elderly always pop the wrappers back in the tin. A commendable early example of recycling.

RandallFlagg

Jimbro66 said:

snakemanStoo said:

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? 

This practice goes back to the post-war years of rationing when a deposit was placed on many reusable items, like 2d on a beer bottle. Sweet wrappers were returned to the confectioner for reuse and the incentive was 1d for a dozen wrappers. That's why the elderly always pop the wrappers back in the tin. A commendable early example of recycling.

Recycling or Austerity?

Jimbro66

RandallFlagg said:

Jimbro66 said:

snakemanStoo said:

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? 

This practice goes back to the post-war years of rationing when a deposit was placed on many reusable items, like 2d on a beer bottle. Sweet wrappers were returned to the confectioner for reuse and the incentive was 1d for a dozen wrappers. That's why the elderly always pop the wrappers back in the tin. A commendable early example of recycling.

Recycling or Austerity?

Yes.

Mrs 66 always folds her sweet wrappers several times lengthwise until they are about 4mm wide then makes little bow ties from them before stacking them neatly beside the tin. Little works of art.

I roll mine into balls and flick them at the dog who, being a dog, thinks everything small and round is to be eaten - which saves me going to the bin.

nick_s

I hate it myself, there should never be false hope in a pot of Celebrations.

EricTheWeary

dogload said:

EricTheWeary said:

Wrap the chocolate wrapper around your finger and shape into a tiny goblet and leave on any spare surface.

Leave After Eight wrappers in the box so that gradually finding the chocolates becomes a game of chance. 

Have you been spying on me?!

I can find tiny goblets around the house well into February. 

PolarityMan

I put guitar solos back instead...you know to give the at form a fighting chance.