My sister and the Roses
My sister and I both love Cadbury's Roses. We both have the same favourite: the strawberry cream; and the same least favourite: the coffee cream.

They've changed the shapes now, but in years gone by, you will remember that both of these chocolates were exactly the same shape: a dome. The only way to tell them apart was by their wrappers. The strawberries were pink, and the coffees were brown.

You can probably guess what's coming - but the thing I'm most proud of is that I managed to pull off the same trick, year in, year out, for about 6 years in a row. I would take a strawberry cream and unwrap it very carefully, so the foil wrapper did not tear. I would eat the chocolate, and then unwrap a coffee cream. Then I would proceed to very carefully wrap the coffee cream in the strawberry cream's wrapper, so that it would be indistinguishable from the real thing.

Getting my sister to eat the first one, the first year, was easy: I just offered it to her. The look on her face as the taste developed was priceless.

Subsequently, I have taken to leaving the fake chocolate in the tin - sitting at the top, in the middle. Since it's her favourite chocolate, there's a good chance that she will reach for it next.

Every year she falls for it :)
(EuroSong I love horse meat: best of all the animals, Sat 27 Dec 2008, 16:28, 3 replies)

Cadbury's must have cottoned on to your trick
since they've got rid of the coffee ones
( Roxy_Hart is so so old, Sat 27 Dec 2008, 18:44, closed)

Oh yeah, that's it
I remembered that there was a reason I couldn't do it any more - hence having written that they changed the shapes. But yes, you're right: no more coffee creams. Damnit.
(EuroSong I love horse meat: best of all the animals, Sat 27 Dec 2008, 19:59, closed)

Weird...
I'm eating Roses right now! The last of the Christmas chocolate, almost. The peppermints are still in the box, albeit a bit smaller, but they got rid of the caramel/marshmallow ones...wtf!
(heartbreaker, Sun 28 Dec 2008, 12:03, closed)