Roll out the barrel, we'll have a barrel of fun

[venta]

A colleague just wandered past with an extremely fancy box of chocolates (agency gift, I think) and offered me one. I chose one that looked like a little tiny barrel.

(There was a legend available, to tell me which was which. But it was very long, and I decided to go for pot luck instead.)

I bit into it... and was extremely surprised to find some sort of liqueur chocolate ganache. That's not right. Little chocolate barrels contain caramel. That is the rule.

Isn't it? Should it be?

I mean, everyone knows salt and vinegar crisps go in blue bags, but Walkers has been openly flouting that for years. Is it reasonable to assume that little chocolate barrels contain caramel, or was I just born in an era where Cadbury's Roses were the height of sophistication?

Comments

[huskyteer.livejournal.com]

Lime barrel. Surely. (I'm not sure I've even had a lime barrel, it's just the two words cannot be separated in a chocolatey context.)

[celestialweasel.livejournal.com]

I agree. Lime barrel.

[venta.livejournal.com]

What? What is this lime barrel of which you speak!?

[celestialweasel.livejournal.com]

The barrel has revolting lime flavoured glop in it, in Milk Tray if Googling is to be believed. The last one left in all right thinking households.

[huskyteer.livejournal.com]

I like revolting lime flavoured glop!

[ylla.livejournal.com]

If the chocolates are posh (or foreign) enough, I think there's a good chance that a barrel will have nasty liqueury stuff in it. I'm not that keen on oozy caramel either these days, though.

[motodraconis.livejournal.com]

Barrels should contain spirits, usually of the whiskey type variety.

It is considered both tragic and unlucky (and possibly an insult) to discover your chocolate barrel only contains caramel.

Well in my household anyway.

[bopeepsheep.livejournal.com]

Yes, this.

[venta.livejournal.com]

Ugh. Caramel over whisky, any day! I hate whisky.

[shermarama]

Off-hand I'd expect something brandy-based in my barrel chocolate (see cartoon St. Bernards) but clearly, yes, barrels are for booze, right?

(Also in NL/BE, blue is the colour of paprika flavour crisps, and even Lays (non-UK Walkers) concur.)

[sushidog.livejournal.com]

I would have expected chocolate, but would have taken booze as a pleasant surprise.

[rapperaddict.livejournal.com]

Liqueurs definitely. Admittedly most of my experience comes from my gran's chocolates which all seemed to be liqueurs regardless of shape unless the cat had gotten to them in which case they mostly contained cat dribble.

[lathany.livejournal.com]

Like you, I would expect caramel. Although I'd consider whiskey as better.

[feanelwa.livejournal.com]

I have sampled a wide variety of chocs both posh and not-posh and I believe I would have been expecting caramel.

[d-floorlandmine.livejournal.com]

Was it a milk or dark chocolate barrel?

And yes, I would put probability of liqueur on some kind of poshness-of-chocolates sliding scale.

[venta.livejournal.com]

Milk

[d-floorlandmine.livejournal.com]

OK, that might decrease the 'liqueur probability' ...

[lnr]

If it's an entire box of barrels I'd expect liqueurs - varying by colour of wrapper.

If it's one barrel in a box of chocs I'd probably be more surprised by liqueur.

I like the caramel ones.

[venta.livejournal.com]

Oh yes, agreed about a whole box of barrels. This was a single specimen!

[broadmeadow.livejournal.com]

Crunchy frog?

[beckyl.livejournal.com]

Neither would surprise me. Barrels 'in the round' usually suggests alcohol to me. Barrels that are a half barrel ( effectively D shaped) lead me more towards caramel. However, both are generally drowned out by the neurons going 'free chocolate!'.