BlueSky

Its all one place to me, its still England and forgien soil


I love pontefract cakes more than any of the others ive posted.

retired_navy0614

Pretty much. But their white chocolate with cookie bits in it is absolutely divine.

retired_navy0614

next time I pop over to look at some WW1 stuff I'll get some :thup:

I did go to a "proper" shop for the chocolates incidentally, on the main street in Ypres after taking a gander at the Menin Gate.

retired_navy0614

"Wafers filled with Hazelnut cream, coated in milk chocolate, decorated with chocolate."

MON STRANGE AUSTRIAN WAFERS

"Spitz 1857." That made me laugh for some reason :/.

retired_Frappin'

Coconut Macaroons
Bakewell Tart
Kendal Mint Cake
Batternburg

retired_heather

next time I pop over to look at some WW1 stuff I'll get some :thup:

I did go to a "proper" shop for the chocolates incidentally, on the main street in Ypres after taking a gander at the Menin Gate. </BLOCKQUOTE>

buying chocolate in ypres was always going to be a bit of gamble really. shouldn't made the effort to travel to bruges or ghent.

retired_navy0614

Ypres got a crap reputation for it? Like I said, I was 15, didn't have much choice in the intinery .

Tbh, half of these continental school jaunts are purely so the teachers can way the bloody coach down on the way back with French Hypermarket cheap booze. The drunken buggers.

retired_bec8643

Should have said before the meet i went to - would have brought you some direct from Pontefract as i live there.

Sarah

retired_sk_cure

You're awesome.