Comments on Jim's Chocolate Mission: December 14th: Hotel Chocolat Classic Christmas H-...

Hi All, Thanks for all the responses. Yet again t...

2011-12-15T17:04:54.133Z

Hi All,

Thanks for all the responses. Yet again they are an absolute pleasure to read, it's such a shame that I'm currently receiving hundreds and hundreds of spam comments meaning it takes hours to filter them all out. I hope some of your's aren't being lost.

Regretfully this does mean that any new posts you see on the site in the near future will have comments disabled. Until blogger can sort out their spam filtering system I'm sorry but I can't commit the time to filtering at present.

Please contact me via Twitter if you have any feedback or questions :-) I will happily respond to you there with any queries or just a friendly note :D

Towards the end of the year there will be a site notification coming out addressing some changes you may see in 2012. I hope you all understand the reasoning behind all that.

In the mean time just enjoy the last Christmas posts due up. There are some nice 'bits n bobs' buyers guide ones coming up so I hope you enjoy them.

Until then have fun in the run up to Christmas.

NIGEL - Please just don't mention the Europa Cup :D :D

SCOTT - Just the Hbox chap. Take a look at the previous years reviews for that.

NEIL - There will undoubtedly be a sale yes.

PHILLIP - Some people still do yes! Normally they are cool quirky things they want to see reviewed on the site.

RICHARD - No you aren't imagining it the prices have gone up.

JONNY - Yes there was a menu.

RACHEL - I believe the Christmas one has cranberry in it.

XEN - Sorry chap I just ran out of time for a competition I'm afraid.

TONY - Yes I've had a large say in what I have reviewed.

VIKKI - Have a look at the site later on next week. You never know what might crop up ;)

CHRIS - The Chocolate Mess was the outstanding piece for me.

THEA - Twitter never fails :D I'm glad you enjoy the reviews.

Thanks everyone

JIM

Twitter fail grr.. it was @ChocMission stop trying...

2011-12-14T22:37:10.965Z

Twitter fail grr.. it was @ChocMission stop trying to sell me chocolate, you do too good a job ;) just kidding, i know you just give us your unbiased opinion. Great HC review & pics :)

If you had to pick one of the chocolates as your f...

2011-12-14T21:39:48.996Z

If you had to pick one of the chocolates as your fave from this lot Jim which would it be? Checking out your rating I think there's going to be a strong likelyhood it's the Christmas Mess. If it wasn't that one which others? Give us the top 3!!!

You don't have a rough time with this reviewin...

2011-12-14T21:39:30.520Z

You don't have a rough time with this reviewing malarky do you boy. If you ever need a hand you only have to ask.

Are you going to be reviewing anymore boxs of choc...

2011-12-14T21:39:18.647Z

Are you going to be reviewing anymore boxs of chocs? There don't seem to be many new ones around this year. Cadburys, Milka and Terry's choc orange are the only ones I've seen in the shops + the crappy thorntons ones.

Woop Woop! Good to see you give this a high rating...

2011-12-14T21:39:01.556Z

Woop Woop! Good to see you give this a high rating. It's what I've bought my mum as one of her smaller pressies. She should enjoy most, if not all of these so i'm very pleased.

I based my decision on whether to get them on your old review so its fab seeing the updated things in there are just about as good. Thank you jim.

Have they something agaisnt white chocoalte or som...

2011-12-14T21:38:39.659Z

Have they something agaisnt white chocoalte or something? Just the one is pretty shabby considering they have tons of milk and dark chocolates in there.

I don't know why but I never remember to think...

2011-12-14T21:38:29.824Z

I don't know why but I never remember to think of Hotel Choc when I intend on buying people chocolates. I think it's cause they still don't do advertising. It would be so much easier if I just rememberd. Lol it's not as if you can buy anything bad from these people is it now lol. Not according to Jim that is ;-)

These choc boxes always look the biz but I would a...

2011-12-14T21:38:05.825Z

These choc boxes always look the biz but I would always much rather pick and choose the chocolates I want in there and not have it dictated to me what I get.

I should be able to get to one of their shops when I'm in town next week. If they have all of these on sale as seperate truffles I think I might have to pick a few out to try. You'll be glad to know that the Christmas mess will be my first port of call J.

Are you not going to be reviewing any Thorntons ch...

2011-12-14T21:37:15.985Z

Are you not going to be reviewing any Thorntons chocolates this year at all? It's been the only thing missing from your Christmas reviews so far. Are they out of favour with you again? You seem to be forever falling out with them Jim.

I've tried tons and tons of chocs from Hotel C...

2011-12-14T21:37:06.272Z

I've tried tons and tons of chocs from Hotel Chocolat now but I still don't think that anything measures up to their house praline chocolates. I've not yet met anything that is quite as good as they are. Mmmmm I Could go for some right now. Fingers crossed for Xmas.

Did you not think of doing the whole bigger box yo...

2011-12-14T21:36:52.565Z

Did you not think of doing the whole bigger box you can get? http://www.hotelchocolat.co.uk/chocolate-christmas-gifts-P260527/
That one has to have more flavours in it than this smaller one right!?

They didn't keep all of the good ones from las...

2011-12-14T21:32:02.320Z

They didn't keep all of the good ones from last year. Wasn't there a cinnamon truffle that was really really good.

I can't believe how little shopping time there...

2011-12-14T21:25:48.792Z

I can't believe how little shopping time there is until Christmas now.
It's snuck up on me so much I need to get my presents sorted this weekend at the latest.

Dont take this as a criticism but you don't se...

2011-12-14T21:25:33.366Z

Dont take this as a criticism but you don't seem to have tried anything bad this Christmas Jim. I can't recall a single thing that you've said hasn't met the standards. Did you pick your own stuff to review? That could be an explanation.

Its interesting to see their packaging hasn't ...

2011-12-14T08:18:48.274Z

Its interesting to see their packaging hasn't changed much.
Hotel Chocolat are a bit funny like that. Some of the time their boxes and wrappers aren't that good looking I don't think. Their chocolates though always look delicious, especially when they get shown off like in the photos you do of them

For a box with so many flavours I'm surprised ...

2011-12-14T08:18:21.530Z

For a box with so many flavours I'm surprised they haven't managed to include one that I wouldn't like. Normally it's standard with any chocolates that I find a minimuim of one I don't like. When that does happen I just give them to my brother. Trust me he will eat any kind of chocolate going. He's a typical boy, anything will do him lol.

Jim if you had to pick out one snack as the best t...

2011-12-14T08:17:57.891Z

Jim if you had to pick out one snack as the best thing you have eaten this Christmas what would you say it is.
Don't make it the most expensive thing for the sake of it, say relative to price what you think it would be.

For me I would say it's the aero mint trees or the galaxy gifts. Both of them are cheap as chips but well nice. I think I must of had about ten aero trees already.

Meh. I wouldn't bother with half of these. Fru...

2011-12-14T08:17:40.386Z

Meh. I wouldn't bother with half of these. Fruit flavoured chocs do my nut in.

There are a couple in here that I don't like t...

2011-12-14T08:14:23.670Z

There are a couple in here that I don't like the sound of but there are tons more that I do.
The way you describe the ginger cheesecake has genuinely got me licking my lips at the thought of trying it. Are you sure you don't have any left over you could send me ;)

What happened to a Choccie Mission Xmas competition btw!? I remember you saying you were setting one up because you didn't do one at Easter :( We aren't missing out again are we.

Hey Hun, Super x 1,000,000 for the Christmas Mess?...

2011-12-14T08:14:02.399Z

Hey Hun, Super x 1,000,000 for the Christmas Mess???? Well well that is going to have to have been v special for you to say that. I can talk first hand about how amaze the Eton Mess choccies they make are so I would expect similar things from this Christmas version of it. Do you mind if I ask what the difference in the two is? Does the Christmas one have cranberry instead of Strawberry or is it just bigger?

Rxxx

I wish I hadn't done all my online shopping so...

2011-12-14T08:13:48.846Z

I wish I hadn't done all my online shopping so early now :( If this had come about earlier I would of bought them for my sister. Instead I've bought her some silly Thorntons santa chocolate thing. This would have been tons better

Jim be honest, did you ever think for one second t...

2011-12-14T08:13:32.547Z

Jim be honest, did you ever think for one second that it would have got worse :-) Lol be honest you just wanted some nice chocolates didn't you lol. I can't say I blame you mind, some of these truffles look lucious.

I wish Hotel Chocolat would do a 'no nuts'...

2011-12-14T08:13:21.932Z

I wish Hotel Chocolat would do a 'no nuts' chocolate selection. It's so annoying, like every bloody box of chocolates they ever make has to have them in. It's like they have it as some kind of law. If they can do it for alcohol then they should do the same for people that don't like nuts. It's not too much to ask is it.

With these chocolates did you get a menu that show...

2011-12-14T08:13:13.194Z

With these chocolates did you get a menu that showed which is which? It's the most frustrating thing ever when you get told whats in the box yet they don't give you any means of identifying them.

It can make for some nasty surprises if you get one of the ones you don't like.