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  "title": "Yule's Chocolates",
  "description": "I judge these Christmassy chocolates Not Quality Enough (most of the time)",
  "publishedAt": "2025-01-14T12:10:59.087Z",
  "textContent": "Here I am, two weeks into 2025, and I've reached the _Quality Street Watershed_. I've nibbled my way through all the \"good\" ones, those remaining after we were given one at our Christmassy gathering, and now each colourful chocolate I unwrap is just the _slightest_ bit disappointing.\n\nNaturally there is a pecking (scoffing?) order to these treats, and I decided to rank them as I worked my way through:\n\n| Name (Count[^1])                     | Notes                                                                                                        |\n|--------------------------------------|--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|\n| Orange Chocolate Crunch (5) | The undeniable best. These were gone before I blinked.                                                       |\n| The Green Triangle (4)      | Hazelnutty deliciousness. Yes please.                                                                        |\n| The Purple One (6)          | Surprised me with tastiness. I'd normally leave these lower down the list!                                   |\n| Milk Chocolate Block (4)    | Solid chocolatey punch. Dependable. Probably in the mid-highs on everyone's list.                            |\n| Caramel Swirl (8)           | I prefer my chocs with a bit of a bite, so the caramel innards lower this a little, but still delicious.     |\n|                                      |                                                                                                              |\n| Orange Creme (7)            | Just a little too intense to be good enough for the faves. You could probaby twist my arm though.            |\n| Fudge (6)                   | So plain. So dry‽ Meh incarnate.                                                                             |\n| Coconut Eclair (7)          | Coconut shouldn't exist in chocolate form. I'm looking at you too Bounty. But at least it's still chocolate. |\n| Toffee Penny (6)            | IT'S IN MY TEETH.                                                                                            |\n| Toffee Finger (6)           | Chewy in summer, but rock hard an impenetrable in their native time of year. Or maybe I                      |\n| Strawberry Delight (7)      | I refuse to accept that anyone finds these tasty. _NOPE._                                                    |\n\nThat gap in the middle? That's the watershed. Once I've eaten down the list that far I know that the holiday season is truly over, and it's time to embrace the new year.\n\nThough I didn't count what came in _this_ tin[^1], I'm also cynically unsurprised that my \"worth eating\" chocs are only 5 of the 11 types[^2], and make up even less by count at just 40% of the tin! Here's to having friends with different tastes & sharing with them 😅\n\n[^1]: I didn't count mine — they were a gift during a house party we were throwing and it seemed… perhaps a _tad_ antisocial to count them right then, or to forbid anyone from eating them that night 😅 These counts are from the first search result that claimed to have counted them this winter.\n[^2]: Yes, the post's title is also a 5 letter anagram of the 11 unique letters in \"quality street\". So \"clever\" is this reference that I have to explain it. In detail.",
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