I had a lovely surprise last night... I got a 'double nutter' in my Ferrero Rocher box, not once, but twice!!

Now during my many years experience of eating Ferrero Rocher chocolates (Ooh, Meester Ambazzadorrr, you are spoileeing uzz!), I've noticed that not only have the plastic boxes they come in got smaller (I use them for storing embroidery threads - they fit perfectly in the old square hinged lidded boxes but the rounded, lift off lid ones don't have enough room), but the chocolates themselves have also shrunk - they rattle about in the old square boxes but fit snuggly in the rounded ones. The only thing that hasn't got smaller is the price. Old marketing trick.

They're all squirted out by precision machines so if the chocolates are getting smaller, they are cutting down on ingredients. If they're cutting down on ingredients, the odds on getting a 'double nutter' - that is two whole hazelnuts in the centre, rather than just one - must be pretty huge. To get one is pretty rare, but to have two 'double nutters' in one box would be astronomical!

I consider myself doubly blessed - two 'double nutters' and I didn't pay for them!

LTS