A random thread for food things that don't really warrant a thread of their own

[Basil]

What is this 'share' of which you speak?

[hellymedic]

I don't think anyone could get their digestive system round ten pounds of chocolate in one sitting.

This is not a challenge I wish to try...

[ian]

I brought one of those several years ago from the shop at Basel airport. I left it in the mothership kitchen as a gift to the subdeck minions. I don't think it lasted five minutes. They were like piranhas for chocolate. To be fair, they'd eat anything, even those half-eaten, Powerpoint-irradiated and curled sandwiches that had survived a long meeting.

[hellymedic]

Does it come segmented or otherwise partitioned?

[Kim]

Does it come segmented or otherwise partitioned?

You'd hope so, that being a defining feature of a Toblerone...

[hellymedic]

Does it come segmented or otherwise partitioned?

You'd hope so, that being a defining feature of a Toblerone...

Well yes but if there are just a dozen sections in a 4,500gran bar, each one is a challenge to tackle. I find the block in a 360g bar hard enough!

[Wowbagger]

This is remarkably odd.

I have just received email notifications from Kim's and Helly's last two posts on this topic, after never before receiving emails about posts. I've never knowingly asked for these notifications, and I wasn't notified by Helly's 11.13pm post on this topic.

Checking my profile, it says I've requested notifications for this topic only. I can't think of any action I've carried out in the past 40 minutes or so which will have caused this to happen.

Weird.

[Cudzoziemiec]

Does it come segmented or otherwise partitioned?

You'd hope so, that being a defining feature of a Toblerone...

Well yes but if there are just a dozen sections in a 4,500gran bar, each one is a challenge to tackle. I find the block in a 360g bar hard enough!

Google says:

People also ask
How many pieces are in 4.5 kg Toblerone?
1
Enhance your purchase
Brand   TOBLERONE
Diet type   Vegetarian
Speciality   Vegetarian
Size   4.5 kg (Pack of 1)
Number of pieces   1
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This is why you should be careful how you phrase questions to Google.

I'm going to take a reasonable guess that there will be far more than a dozen chunks. Probably each pyramid is approximately the same width as a 'normal' Toblerone but much taller. And doesn't weigh ~300g. The only way to know is to buy, borrow, beg, steal or otherwise consume one...

[T42]

Does it come segmented or otherwise partitioned?

If it didn't it'd be Toblerohne.

[JonBuoy]

I'm going to take a reasonable guess that there will be far more than a dozen chunks. Probably each pyramid is approximately the same width as a 'normal' Toblerone but much taller. And doesn't weigh ~300g. The only way to know is to buy, borrow, beg, steal or otherwise consume one...

Guess again:  https://www.ebay.com/itm/254921132497

[Cudzoziemiec]

Okay! TBH I didn't even know the 'standard' if there is a standard, size had 12 sections – but now I assume all the sizes must do. Those are seriously big chunks.

[hellymedic]

Toblerone Tinys, when you can get them, only have 3 sections...

[neilrj]

Each segment is lettered > T O B L E R O N E so 9 segments, so 500g a segment (if they break nicely). I could probably eat one but couldn't be sure it'd stay down. I always imagined the big bar was just lots and lots of little bars filling the box.

[hellymedic]

I think Toblerone bars have unlettered segments.

Nonetheless, the idea of having to break up a 400-500g chunk seems a daunting hammer'n'chisel job...

[ian]

The big bar is an entire Toblerone. I established that before the hoards descended. I don’t eat chocolate so I left them to it.

[Cudzoziemiec]

Lettered segments rings a bell, with some unlettered at each end, but it's a while since I ate one. JonBuoy's ebay link clearly shows 12 segments and they appear to be unlettered. And the price is currently $295 for one bar! 

[ian]

You can imagine how expensive it was in a Swiss airport shop. I put it on the company card, I figured feeding subdeck minions was a viable expense.

[Cudzoziemiec]

Should have got it in Slovakia, straight from the factory gates.
https://www.reuters.com/business/retail-consumer/toblerone-loses-swiss-exclusivity-production-shifts-east-2022-06-23/

[hellymedic]

It's 'only' £73.99, I think, direct from Toblerone, so not a HUGE expense.

I still think it would need a hammer & chisel or equivalent.

[Wowbagger]

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/feb/14/french-vineyards-bordeaux-payout-pour-wine-down-drain-trade-sales

Mes amis, if you want to get rid of your Bordeaux surplus, I can help...

[Ham]

My granddaughter would like a rainbow cake for her second birthday. Is it wikid of me to use the pride flag colours and see how long till someone notices?* I think I have to.


* Someone absolutely will, I will be found out, that's accepted

[Pickled Onion]

My granddaughter would like a rainbow cake for her second birthday. Is it wikid of me to use the pride flag colours and see how long till someone notices?* I think I have to.


* Someone absolutely will, I will be found out, that's accepted

Sorry, what's the difference? The pride flag colours are the colours of the rainbow at least as far as a cake goes. If someone claims there are seven colours in the rainbow they are as wrong as Newton was.

[Apologies, I'm a colour nerd and could bore the arse off you with this]

[Pickled Onion]

My granddaughter would like a rainbow cake for her second birthday. Is it wikid of me to use the pride flag colours and see how long till someone notices?* I think I have to.


* Someone absolutely will, I will be found out, that's accepted

Sorry, what's the difference? The pride flag colours are the colours of the rainbow at least as far as a cake goes. If someone claims there are seven colours in the rainbow they are as wrong as Newton was.

[Apologies, I'm a colour nerd and could bore the arse off you with this]

And what's more, the wikipedia page is very wrong, and yes, there are citations that say so.

[Pingu]

JFDI

[Ham]

My granddaughter would like a rainbow cake for her second birthday. Is it wikid of me to use the pride flag colours and see how long till someone notices?* I think I have to.


* Someone absolutely will, I will be found out, that's accepted

Sorry, what's the difference? The pride flag colours are the colours of the rainbow at least as far as a cake goes. If someone claims there are seven colours in the rainbow they are as wrong as Newton was.

[Apologies, I'm a colour nerd and could bore the arse off you with this]

Why so it is! violet to red. I'd sort-of assumed that the flag had done some jumbling of the order, I hadn't taken that much notice.  Having said that, the SOP for cake baking would say choose bright irrelevant colours, so choosing the correct shade and tone for the flag should make it identifiable.