These were a box of chocolates with a black and orange mountain scene on the front, that majored on the fact that all the centres were hard (and, as is the way with a lot of now discontinued chocolates, empty boxes of them go for ££ on eBay).
Last year a reader called Olivia got in touch to ask if I could recommend some chocolates to replace those her mum loved – Terry’s Spartan.
Memorial Device on X once said of them: ‘not uncommon to find a box of Spartans with teeth marks in every single one – the unaware searching for the nonexistent soft centre,’ which made me guffaw.
Audrey’s Chocolates date back to 1948 – and they are still handmade in the same factory – and is apparently a very quaint little shop in Hove, which I intend to visit soon.
I gave Olivia some suggestions but she came back to say she’d ‘found the winner in Audrey’s Chocolates.
