[landroverroy]

Ok - so it says on here that one can discuss anything and everything. So I would like to mention the most disgusting Christmas present I got this year. Hopefully it may serve as a warning to others as to what not to buy.

My step daughter in law bought me a large tin of Walkers Luxury milk chocolate nuts and fruits. The tin looked amazing and I do love chocolate covered nuts.
However, I'm not sure where the luxury comes in. The chocolate is cheap and nasty at 24% cocoa and the nuts are mostly tiny bits - like floor sweepings. After trying one or 2 and being incredibly disappointed by the poor quality of the chocolate and the fact that I couldn't work out what was inside without looking on the tin, I realised that some of them tasted distinctly non chocolatey - like they'd been dipped in a chemical. 

So I went on that trusty source of all info - Google - and discovered that someone else had found traces of weevils  in their "luxury" Walkers nuts. Now, I don't normally scrutinise chocolates before I eat them. (Does anyone?!) I just pop them in my mouth and expect to enjoy. I shal never do that again.  For on examining the remaining chocolates I found that many had signs of something having got to eat them before me. There were little entry marks all over the chocolate surface.

Not wishing either myself, or this forum to be threatened with a libel action I wouldn't go so far to say that some my chocolates were riddled with weevils, but they certainly gave that impression. But until Trading Standards have examined them more closely it isn't possible to confirm.

But I will state that my tin of Walkers chocolate nuts is most certainly not a luxury product and they taste disgusting   

[SallyintNorth]

[member=1]Dan[/member] we need a Yeuk! emotiwotsit!   Eeeeoooowww!  Shudder!  Vomit!

I am currently foresworn off any but 70% or more cocoa chocolate, and the sweeter stuff is now really very unappealing.  More so now!

[Penninehillbilly]

Yuk
So you've passed them on to trading standards?

Would be interesting to know their answer.
I'll check my snack foods in future!

[Womble]

Wow!!


That reminds me of when my parents lived in Zambia. Apparently they always had to sift the brown flour to remove the weevils, but the white flour never had any. My Dad mentioned this at the shop one day and said 'I suppose that's because the white flour is more pure?'. The response? 'No, there isn't enough nutrition in the white flour for them to survive'  .


BTW, you'd be shocked if you read the standards for wheat flour: 

A sample is considered “infested” if it contains 1. two or more live weevils, or 2. one live weevil and 1 other live insect injurious to stored grain, or 3. two or more live insects injurious to stored grain other than live weevils.

So one live weevil is ok then? What about dead weevils? do they not count?     And as for this one, well, the mind boggles! 

Light Smutty Wheat. Wheat in a 250-gram portion that has an unmistakable odor of smut or which contains smut balls, portions of smut balls, or spores of smut in excess of a quantity equal to 5 smut balls, but not in excess of a quantity equal to 30 smut balls of average size.

[Dan]

 

Alright [member=10673]SallyintNorth[/member] ?

[Cosmore]

So, when buying chocolates it's better to choose the lesser of two weeviles then! .

[Fleecewife]

Weevils?  Weren't they the main source of protein for sailors of old?   

[landroverroy]

So, when buying chocolates it's better to choose the lesser of two weeviles then! .

Brilliant pun  May suggest it to Walkers when they ring me back on monday with their sanitised version of how chocolate develops holes as a natural cooling process or whatever they have managed to dream up in the next few days.

[landroverroy]

Weevils?  Weren't they the main source of protein for sailors of old? 

Absolutely FW. But it wasn't mentioned in the list of contents.

[oor wullie]

I've never had their chocolates but they are much better know for their shortbread and cakes etc.

Back when I was a student I had a flat mate who had family and friends who worked in the factory.  Every now and again they packaged up a box and sent it to us.  Ginger bread, shortbread and biscuits aplenty, it was brilliant!

[SallyintNorth]

Alright [member=10673]SallyintNorth[/member] ?

Bloomin' marvellous    Thank you Dan! 

[Roxy]

I love chocolate .....will pop any in my mouth, without checking to be honest, although tend to leave any with nuts in for my OH, plus any caramel ones......which sometimes I have already sucked the chocolate off before deciding its not to my liking!!!  Reading this has made me think twice - I will look at what chocolate is going in my mouth!!

Hope you get a positive result about your chocolates.

Oh, and when I first saw your post I actually thought the chocolate was for ....walkers, you know, the sort who hike!!!!

[waterbuffalofarmer]

Professional chocolatiers say that if you cannot taste the filling first when you bite into the chocolate then it is a bad chocolate. I am sorry to hear about your experience landdovery, it really is completely and utterly unacceptable, I am surprised they have gotten away with it up until now. When i first saw the post I immediately thought it was crisp walkers, but I recalled a friend telling me about shortbread walkers. Pity about that I love their shortbread as well. I hope everything comes out alright.

[doganjo]

Walkers of Aberlour are one of the most popular and highly regarded shortbread manufacturers - both in and out of Scotland. They have various products that contain chocolate - are you sure this is the  same company?  I've done various google searches and can't find these chocolates anywhere

[Buttermilk]

I got a large box of montezuma's chocolates for Christmas and can vouch for them being delicious without the addition of weevils.