For @Constance:

[PMRpro]

Specially for Constance - a report from her local paper, the Soest Anzeiger, has been included in the Guardian:

theguardian.com/world/2018/...

Hope you are out there Constance...

[Longtimer]

Love it, would have been nice to have just soaked up the smell!....

..Worked in a chocolate factory in my twenties, never tired of the smell, and could eat as much as we liked!.....

[Nuff1 in reply to Longtimer]

I trained in York - 3 years of 2 chocolate factories and I was fed up of the smell, especially on a hot day. Some years later after I'd moved to Wales I was based in Chirk for a couple of yeas - Cadburys this time!

I do like chocolate but do find the smell to be a bit too much when it keeps wafting over through the day; I suppose if it's all around all the time one stops noticing.

[Longtimer in reply to Nuff1]

Was it Mckintoshes in York?.....it was where I live, was on Easter eggs.....sitting watching the moulds go through.....😊

The whole city wafted of chocolate, it was missed when it went....now a shopping mall......for now....

[Nuff1 in reply to Longtimer]

This was 1960s - Rowntees pre-Mackintosh.

[Longtimer in reply to Nuff1]

It would have been about 1970ish for me.....

[Nuff1 in reply to Longtimer]

Can't think when the merger was - college was other side of York in the Military Hospital (before the diploma course became a degree course in the way that nursing did)

[Louisepenygraig in reply to Nuff1]

I'd forgotten Cadburys used to at Chirk. The overwhelming smell now would be the chipboard factory. 😟

[Nuff1 in reply to Louisepenygraig]

Can be sometimes but I'm not there very often as I went to work in Gwynedd (they need my qualifications more than speaking Welsh ) and I've been retired 11 years now

[Daisychain12 in reply to Louisepenygraig]

🤢

[Estellemac in reply to Longtimer]

All our family worked for Mr Kiplings got the imperfects half price. My friends never tired of them. Me? I am cured of even looking at them.

[Daisychain12 in reply to Estellemac]

Me too! I can’t believe it I was The Cake Queen. Going low carb has changed my taste buds!!!!

[Constance13]

Ha ha!😂😂 Saw it on WDR, didn’t think it would hit international newspaper.

Good job all the Christmas goodies were produced months ago.

What a mess!

[PMRpro Ambassador in reply to Constance13]

An improvement on most of the day's news in the UK papers...

[Constance13 in reply to PMRpro]

What, not interested in Terry May’s future?

[PMRpro Ambassador in reply to Constance13]

Can't decide what is the best thing to happen - if she survives tonight we have her for another year. OTOH, Boris and co should be mince. If she loses - they will waste so much time fighting over the crown between themselves, Article 50 must be at least delayed and possibly even withdrawn. Every silver lining has a cloud...

[Marijo1951 in reply to PMRpro]

And as the in-fighting continues, more people become homeless, the NHS crumbles a bit more and teenagers continue to knife one another... Sometimes I think how much I'd like to be alone with David Cameron for a few minutes!

[scats in reply to Marijo1951]

I think David Cameron should be called to account. The referendum was a travisty and left this country in this in this expensive mess. We should have been much better informed before we were asked to vote.

[DorsetLady PMRGCAuk volunteer in reply to scats]

Yes he should! Arrogantly thought everything was going to go his way - and then baled out when he didn’t like the answer!

Been very low key since - now there’s a surprise! Not!

[Daisychain12 in reply to Marijo1951]

You speak pure sense. Thank you xxxx

[Constance13 in reply to PMRpro]

Oh no! Not everything to start over (and over, and over) again!

[Estellemac]

Just booking my ✈️ flight to aid the clean up

[CT-5012 in reply to Estellemac]

I would be with you if it was dark chocolate 🍫😂

[Marijo1951]

I have this wonderful memory of former visits to Brussels, leaving the Midi railway station and being overwhelmed by the lovely smell of fresh chocolate coming from the old Côte d'Or factory ...

[Constance13 in reply to Marijo1951]

Don’t know what the smell was like in Westönnen! Daren’t think!

We are about 17 kms away by car.

[Daisychain12 in reply to Marijo1951]

Remember those elephants?????

[SheffieldJane]

I lived near the Cadbury’s factory in Bournville. I know the smell, not as delish as you might imagine.

[HeronNS]

Perhaps it will go down in history like the great Molasses Flood in Boston? Although hopefully not deadly.

Years ago in downtown Halifax (Nova Scotia) there was a chocolate factory and also a fish processing plant. Particularly on foggy days, of which we have many, the combination of peppermint patty and smoked mackerel was quite something. Ambience much less interesting since the chocolate factory upped stakes, eventually to end up in Mexico, and the fish plant closed.

[Nuff1 in reply to HeronNS]

Trying to imagine peppermint fish

[Daisychain12 in reply to Nuff1]

Sounds like a rock band x

[Daisychain12 in reply to HeronNS]

Omg this is hilarious!!! Imagine a hangover and smelling that lot!!!!!

[Daisychain12]

Chocolate in Australia is appalling. The first time I ate an Aus smartie I cried. Too much artificial sweetener and not gooey