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

[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.)