Violet Creams
The human tongue, it is said, can tell the difference between only four kinds of flavour: sweet, bitter, sour and savoury. But today, we made scientific history by discovering a fifth flavour. Violet.
No, we haven’t been munching on the neighbours’ hanging baskets again. We’ve been sampling the delights of one of Beech’s Fine Chocolates ‘traditional’ range, namely their Violet Creams. We found them quite by chance this morning while we were in Boyes looking for a cheap birthday card for a distant relative (60 miles distant, to be exact).
Beech’s are quite clever when it comes to packaging their choccies though. You see, our little box of Violet (or, as we prefer to call them, ‘Violent‘) Creams contained 13 chocolates. And as there are two of us, we would usually have to buy two boxes if we wanted equal shares. What an ingenious marketing ploy. However, we managed to scupper Beech’s fiendish intentions quite easily: we simply broke the thirteenth chocolate in half! And we shall do exactly the same with the next box we buy. And the one after that. And the one after that. So there!