Describe your dream chocolate bar.
As long as they’re milk chocolate.
I actually had my dream chocolate bar about twenty years ago.
There was a Cadbury Chocolate store near us, and they were selling this enormous bar of chocolate. Each square was 2” across, and as deep. You couldn’t bite into it, as you can probably imagine. It’s about 1 1/2″ thick. Yes I’m the feet and inches generation!
However, to give you a clue. My husband turns up at work to take me for lunch on my birthday. A first (and last), bringing with him the bar of chocolate.
The office went into uproar! He quipped that what made him laugh was the idea of me carrying it home through Bath, and on the train that night. He didn’t get his wish though because when I took hold of it I had to say “Sorry, you’ll have to take it for me, I’ve hurt my back and I can’t carry it!”
Bearing in mind I could still carry my handbag, which at the time was large enough to have the mummified bones of a baby mammoth lost somewhere at the bottom. This will give you an idea how many kilos the bar was. It was at least 2 feet long.
Embarrassingly I didn’t manage to eat it all inside three months. Each square took a couple of nights.
Chocolate is a public service
It also helped a friend in times of trouble. We’d recently been on holiday and visited a beer warehouse as a thank you to hubby. I bought him the biggest bottle of Belgian beer he’d ever seen. It seemed fair.
Sadly our friend lost her aunt and had to go and help the family sort everything out. Her husband was deeply upset, hated letting her go alone, but needed to look after their two toddlers and protect them from an upset they were too young to understand.
So we said – generously – that we would come over and bring one beer and one square of my birthday chocolate bar. He was underwhelmed, but grateful for even such clearly substandard company.
His face when he opened the door was unforgettable.
Chocolate can be a good thing!
Deb xx
P.S. Just realised that it was 21 years ago last Sunday! Wow! I forgot it was my birthday all those days ago. 🤣
Deb Hawken - Amorah 