@Loxley@JennyJ We could be triplets then I don't actually eat a lot of chocolate other than around Christmas as everybody knows my love of Toblerone. My concern is that production has moved out of Switzerland and I read something about the recipe having to be changed because of that. Time will tell.
What??? I've just bought a fancy tin of mixed mini Toblerons for Possum's Xmas stocking. They'd better be up to standard as we're all Toblerone fans here.
Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
"The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
The honey bits stick to your teeth in a very satisfying way it has to be said. Borders dark chocolate ginger biscuits are delicious. However, it takes about five goes of tooth brushing to get the sticky unctuousness off your teeth. For this reason, I've given up on them.. PS. Not hyperbole. It took five goes😟
We are currently boycotting Cadbury’s chocolate, along with other Unilever products, and it’s certainly cut down the opportunities to indulge in our usual naughty treats. I haven’t noticed much in the way of shrinkflation, but certainly noticed the prices going up. I can now only buy my favourite Lindor chocolates when they are on special offer, there was a massive price hike. I made some chocolate sauce a few days ago, just melted plain chocolate and cream, but got the quantities wrong, it was more fudgy than runny. However, I put the leftovers in the fridge, where they cooled into a solid ganache, which was delicious. I’m now wondering if I should resort to making my own, not sure how long they would keep for.
OH gets migraines from eating sugar generally and glucose syrup especially, so we no longer buy any chocolates or biscuits so I can't really comment on the shrinkflation.
I did have one term each of cookery and sewing at secondary school, but don't recall learning anything of any use in either. I also had one term each of woodwork, technical drawing and metalwork - I went to an enlightened state school where both boys and girls did all of these. I still have the thing I made in woodwork and I used technical drawing for a while at work until CAD took over from drawing boards. They also taught gardening/horticulture and car mechanics but I missed out on those because I was pushed into the Latin and German classes instead. Whilst I still have some hope that being able to ask for a return ticket to Furth may one day prove useful, knowing some basic car maintenance would have come in handy many times
Gardening on the edge of Exmoor, in Devon
“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”
YEs it would @raisingirl. As I moved to London at 21 I didn't learn to drive till I was 30 and we'd moved out to Harrow. I took evening classes in car maintenance and got as far as beingable to tune the car and change plugs etc for a 13,000 mile service but drew the line at heavy stuff like changing brakes and tyres. They are definitely a job for "a man who can".
Basic plumbing and decorating skills would be good too but the Readers' Digest hand books were indeed handy for that.
Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
"The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
@Ergates have a look at Wagon Wheels for clear evidence of shrinkflation. They should be renamed 'Skateboard Wheels'.
I’d heard that they were much smaller, but had put that down to the fact that I am so much bigger now! My daughter was very surprised to find out that her grandparents dog had been a wirehaired fox terrier, as she thought it must have been an Airedale!
I didn’t do any domestic science at school, as I was also diverted into the Latin class. Always envious, especially when the girls in the other class had their annual exhibition of the Christmas cakes they had made and iced. I did however learn a lot of car maintenance from my father. While my younger sister was learning childcare and cooking from my mother, I was assisting in changing fan belts, and topping up brake fluid. OH carried on with my ‘education’ with such enthusiasm that I probably got more practice changing tyres than he did, I also carried a hammer to deal with our unreliable starter motor at the time.
@Ergates when I was doing my car maintenance I had a colleagues - young married couple - who were car mad and did all their own maintenance so my ex computer engineer (sister company) Chevette estate was precision timed and colour tuned. Another young colleague who lived nearby had a TR6 and I beat him away from the lights every single time.
Other than checking oil levels and windscreen washer I have no idea what's going on under the bonnet now.
I do like to make cakes now too but don't go in for fancy piping and decorating.
Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
"The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
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Borders dark chocolate ginger biscuits are delicious. However, it takes about five goes of tooth brushing to get the sticky unctuousness off your teeth. For this reason, I've given up on them..
PS. Not hyperbole. It took five goes😟
I made some chocolate sauce a few days ago, just melted plain chocolate and cream, but got the quantities wrong, it was more fudgy than runny. However, I put the leftovers in the fridge, where they cooled into a solid ganache, which was delicious. I’m now wondering if I should resort to making my own, not sure how long they would keep for.
I did have one term each of cookery and sewing at secondary school, but don't recall learning anything of any use in either. I also had one term each of woodwork, technical drawing and metalwork - I went to an enlightened state school where both boys and girls did all of these. I still have the thing I made in woodwork and I used technical drawing for a while at work until CAD took over from drawing boards. They also taught gardening/horticulture and car mechanics but I missed out on those because I was pushed into the Latin and German classes instead. Whilst I still have some hope that being able to ask for a return ticket to Furth may one day prove useful, knowing some basic car maintenance would have come in handy many times
“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”
Basic plumbing and decorating skills would be good too but the Readers' Digest hand books were indeed handy for that.
I didn’t do any domestic science at school, as I was also diverted into the Latin class. Always envious, especially when the girls in the other class had their annual exhibition of the Christmas cakes they had made and iced.
I did however learn a lot of car maintenance from my father. While my younger sister was learning childcare and cooking from my mother, I was assisting in changing fan belts, and topping up brake fluid. OH carried on with my ‘education’ with such enthusiasm that I probably got more practice changing tyres than he did, I also carried a hammer to deal with our unreliable starter motor at the time.
Other than checking oil levels and windscreen washer I have no idea what's going on under the bonnet now.
I do like to make cakes now too but don't go in for fancy piping and decorating.