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Yes, let's not get started on Scottish swedgers.

very pleasing image of Our Wullie riding a Longhorn on the wrapper

sorry *Oor*

Our Will, as he's known in the Home Counties.

"because of course traditionally we think toffee's better if it's manufactured at a high altitude"

they discontinued dark chocolate bounties last year, rip

i blame Brexit

slightly prefer American almond joy eg a bounty bar with almonds snuggled under the chocolate exterior,, the idea of a dark chocolate almond joy is making me quiver

FYI
Might want to be one of those evenings to try that iykwim

Not really thread-appropriate but the coconut Trek bar with dark choc topping is amazing with coffee.

xps "a dark chocolate almond joy"

Mounds is a candy bar made by The Hershey Company, consisting of shredded, sweetened coconut coated in dark chocolate. The company also produces the Almond Joy, a similar bar topped by whole almonds and covered in milk chocolate.

unfortunately Hersheys isn't chocolate so

I've definitely heard stories about people thinking Hershey's tastes like vomit, literally, but I don't know why. Some ingredient in it that certain pallets don't like, like with cilantro? I don't get it.

i feel like the "vomit" thing is just rhetorical excess when people could just say "jesus christ why would anybody willingly eat this dogshit?"

butyric acid isn't it?

buttass taste more like

It's the butyric acid that comes out of the Hershey chocolate process that gives it the sour/vomit taste. European chocolate uses a different process with their milk powder - I think the story goes that back in the day, Hershey couldn't get the European process to work, but could if the milk spoiled a little.

having said this, it's really hard to discern the truth between "multinationals made me eat wrong chocolate" and that racist woman screaming at Quality Streets

Joining mark s in the defence of coconut-based sweets. Will eat all of them. And I know they're not in assortment tins but I'm also going to rep for the pink wafer. Delicious. Give them to me.

As a result, the Hershey flavor is widely recognized in the United States, the Philippines, and to a minor extent in Canada, where British-produced chocolates were commonly sold, but less so internationally, especially in areas where European chocolates are more widely available.

Shade noted but well deserved

Mounds is a candy bar made by The Hershey Company, consisting of shredded, sweetened coconut coated in dark chocolate. The company also produces the Almond Joy, a similar bar topped by whole almonds and covered in milk chocolate.

You will NEVER guess what this in reply to. Not in a million tries. https://t.co/Moqp2xZH4K

— H4mez (@hamezhill) January 16, 2024

lol i just tookl delivery of a small food parcel full of tiny bounty bars from suzy, so my importunate cheekiness upthread worked! thank you suzy! and thank you too for the recipe booklet, very handy indeed as i gradually get my books out of boxes (no shelves yet for all my cookery books) xxx

Hahaha, enjoy them!

xxp indeed not, and as it's a twitter embed, no way of finding out alas

it's a reply to a bbc post about the snooker championship final having a record number of iPlayer viewers

Lol well we ignore the silent majority at our peril

coming over here, watching our snooker

https://southwarknews.co.uk/area/bermondsey/borough-man-jailed-after-burgling-kent-supermarket-before-colliding-with-police-vehicle/

reading about petty crime is pretty interesting. "Officers also found a bag containing a long screwdriver, gloves and a hammer." definitely a professional.

best detail here is that he collided with a police car during the getaway and...

Following his conviction, Simms will be disqualified from driving for two years on his release and will have to take an extended driving test.

Emergency services are at Chester Market after reports of customers being affected by fumes. This was due to the cooking of a large amount of chillies and there are no wider public health concerns.

The market has been evacuated but we are working to get it back to normal asap. pic.twitter.com/t07a2vcRZ9

— Cheshire Fire and Rescue Service (@CheshireFire) January 27, 2024

^this exact thing happened years ago near where I used to work in Soho/London, a Thai restaurant was cooking up its chili sauce in bulk and people started reporting some sort of chemical leak.

Police arrived en-masse, cordoned off the area, and smashed doors down. It was a proper scenario, and iirc it was only a couple of years after 7/7, I guess they were still on high alert.

i'm not saying the good people of Chester are lightweights but

do chillies even have an aroma? I couldn't identify it in the way I could tell if someone is cooking with cumin or garlic.

I know they do have an aroma but idk what it is! anything I cook with chillies is either overpowered by garlic, ginger or cumin

if you vaporise enough dried chillis in a wok I can confirm that it makes a spicy smoke that catches in your throat and makes you cough, generally means something delicious is on its way.

ah, you don't get that when you fry 4 or 5 chillies or a sprinkling of flakes with other ingredients.

they use capiscum in pepper spray, so yeah

Real Wales

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/jan/25/llanelli-dj-jailed-for-urinating-on-cancer-patient-and-posting-video-online

“It’s just something me and the boys do when we are drunk.."

it's well worth avoiding men like this, as much as you can.

I like how the explanation just amplifies what a piece of shit he is

Brookfield admitted assault. Robert Thomas, defending, said: “In terms of the incident there’s very little that can be said in his favour.”

When even your own counsel can't be bothered to make excuses for you...

It’s just something me and the boys do when we are drunk

Tearful XL bully owner Ashley Warren BEGS for breed to be ‘wiped out’ after they killed his mother

Look at the absolute state of this clown, a 39 year old man.

https://metro.co.uk/2024/02/04/woman-killed-attacked-two-dogs-man-arrested-20220624/

one of the dogs that killed his mother-in-law was called Bear, that tells you all you need to know about his dog owning mentality, weapons rather than pets.

Is Jaywick still the most deprived town in England? It's a weird place anyway.

There is an XL Bully owner up the road from me. There is a sign on the rickety gate that reads something like they have no responsibility for anyone who gets seriously injured or killed by their dog. I don't trust the gate to contain this beast, every time there has been strong winds another plank comes off it. And then my dumbass dog makes it a more fraught situation by barking at this beast.

Loving that these brain donor programme participants think a shitty little warning sign absolves them of responsibility for their dogs. Any prosecutor would say ‘so you knew your dogs were potentially violent?’

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GFpWKUYWEAApZ-2?format=jpg&name=small

imagine having a sign like this at the front of your house