[Green Thing]

Remember how good it tasted like no other chocolate

[pink star 28]

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Originally Posted by Green Thing

Remember how good it tasted like no other chocolate

Are you been serious, I always think it tasted really cheap.

[Tiwttmos]

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Originally Posted by Green Thing

Remember how good it tasted like no other chocolate

I use to savour it, at it was just one piece a day, or being a middle child, one every three days

[venusinflares]

We didn't have chocolate advent calendars in the 1970's. You got a picture of a Christmas object behind each door and a nativity scene behind the last door.

I bought myself a Milky Bar advent calendar today, in readiness for advent, and a white chocolate orange (for Christmas). I love white chocolate.

[Sick Bullet]

For some reason the chocolate always tasted so good, didn't taste cheap at all.

Remember one time eating them all at once

[mimicole]

I love the chocolate in advent calanders

[RAINBOWGIRL22]

I think it tastes horrid!

My Mum used to get 3 choccie calendars for my siblings and a normal one for me. She used to give me a small square of Galaxy when they opened their calendars

[ROWLING2010]

We used to have a cardboard chimney filled with 24 boxes which my mum filled with different sweets for each day.

[sarahj1986]

I loved these as a kid. I used to steal the chocolate out my sisters calendars I had a nack of opening the foil without opening the little door

[thedrewser]

We didn't have a chocolate one when I was a kid, just pictures. My sister and I took it in turns to open a door and I recall on the morning of 1 December each year trying to work out whether I should go first or second so that I could be the one to open the door on 24 December because it was a double door.

[LaceyLouelle3]

It USED to taste lovely, now they're all made by Kinnerton and their chocolate is horrible.

[venusinflares]

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Originally Posted by thedrewser

We didn't have a chocolate one when I was a kid, just pictures. My sister and I took it in turns to open a door and I recall on the morning of 1 December each year trying to work out whether I should go first or second so that I could be the one to open the door on 24 December because it was a double door.

That's exactly what we did, with the same type of calendar with a double door for Christmas Eve. It always had the same nativity scene behind it though!

[Welsh-lad]

Urgh - it tasted like cheap cooking chocolate or 'chocolate substitute'.

[newda898]

I used to have a Mars one, then on christmas eve you'd get a mini size mars bar.

[Gogfumble]

Kinnerton ones are horrid. I am in my 30s and still have an advent calendar, but only a dairy milk one.

[Diane_Rob]

The Lindt calendars are lovely

[JulesF]

Hotel Chocolat also do lovely calendars.

It's like anything else - quality will vary depending on how much you are willing to pay. The bog-standard calendars will obviously come with cheap chocolate.

[davelovesleeds]

I always get a Cadbury's one. Lovely.

[Porcupine]

My Mum always buys me an advent calender, normally one with mini twix, bounty etc behind the windows.

One year I got it and placed it on the sideboard until the 1st Dec. The 1st came and I opened the window ... and no chocolate. The 2nd, the same thing. I didn't know whether to tell my Mum or not that she had been done and had a substandard advent calender.

It wasn't until mid month ish that my husband started sniggering as I opened the calender. After the laughing subsided the eejit told me that he had opened the calender at the top and slid the plastic out, emptied the choccie and then carefully slid the plastic back into the cardboard. He then produced the stash of choccies which he had hidden. Grrrrrrrrrrrr.

[Utopian Girl]

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Originally Posted by Sick Bullet

For some reason the chocolate always tasted so good, didn't taste cheap at all.

Remember one time eating them all at once

My youngest son used do that - it should have been Christmas Day before noon on December the 2nd!

I was of the era of only a picture behind the doors.

[Justabloke]

Firstly....
http://isitchristmas.co.uk/

Secondly, I was alway under the impression that the things in cheaper advents were "chocolate flavour" rather than actual chocolate...

[MJsDirtyDiana]

The other day when I was in Asda I noticed a ‘Snowman and the Snowdog’ Advent calendar and I just had to buy one!

[CrazyLoop]

I used to really really love them

However since I've become a late teen/young adult, they seem to have gone nasty

May try Cadburys this year to see if they taste yack or not

[grimtales1]

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Originally Posted by Diane_Rob

The Lindt calendars are lovely

Where can you can get those? Cant find any in Tesco etc.
I cant remember what I used to have as a kid but the Kinnerton ones are awful chocolate, the Dairy Milk ones are OK

[mightybudgie]

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Originally Posted by grimtales1

Where can you can get those? Cant find any in Tesco etc.
I cant remember what I used to have as a kid but the Kinnerton ones are awful chocolate, the Dairy Milk ones are OK

My sainsburys was selling them today, £5 each