So I was persuaded the other day to go and get a tub of ice cream.
To be fair, I didn't need a huge amount of persuading; at the time it was so hot my head was on fire, and the hypo-decision-making-cortex in my brain had stopped making rational choices. It was basically sending an emergency: "Send ice cream, send ice cream," to the rest of me.
So there I was in the Co-Op, buying a tub of Carte D'or, and multipacks of Galaxy Ripples and Cadbury's Twirls, as the optimum choice (Flakes of course, famously) had sold out.
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Well. Don't judge me but I ate all the ice-cream. Out of the tub, with a spoon.
Somehow though, I still ended up with chocolate left over, and so this morning, for a snack, I fetched the pack of Twirls from the freezer (for that is where I had them kept) and opened them up.
I'm outraged. No wait, what was that word my friend Sarah found? Apoplectic. Or perhaps livid, as she'd doubtless prefer. I'm livid.
How come the multipack Twirls are so much smaller than the regular ones? They're barely bigger than fun-size!
First of all, they're 34g. The regular ones are 43g, so that's 9g of chocolatey goodness I was suddenly missing out on. Secondly, the price of a 4x multipack is exactly the same as the price of 4 regular Twirls! So for the same price, I could have bought 4 separate Twirls, and had 36g more chocolate... which is an extra multipack Twirl, isn't it?
What a swindle!
Meanwhile, it turns out (I looked it up) the 11 pack gives better value. That's 236g of Twirly goodness for the price of 5 regular Twirls. But disappointment still lies within, for even though you're technically getting an extra 1.5 Twirls... they're only single bars!
Who's expecting single-wrapped Twirls? They're famously in two-packs! It would be a bit like unwrapping half a Jaffa Cake, or the top bit of a custard cream!
Perfect, you may think, if you needed to stick them in a scoop of ice-cream, in the sad eventuality that you couldn't get Flakes in your local Co-Op for your home-made 99s.
But unfortunately, I had already scoffed all the Carte D'or, hadn't I? So that was that.
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