UK: Liqueur chocolate law is scrapped - meaning under 16s can now buy them

[Sashaisme]

My English teacher went to Italy, and brought some of these back for her co-teacher.

The co-teacher thought they were just regular chocolates (I think they were in a box) and when she ate one during the school day (between classes, I didn't witness it, but I'd have loved to.) she freaked out because there was booze in it that she didn't expect.

[MR-X]

In the US you have to be 21 to buy these...

[Viper1204]

Wow. We have some really stupid laws in this country..

[LSK]

[QUOTE=opaali;46668799]All you will get from trying to get drunk off these is sugar rush and/or stomach ache[/QUOTE]

If I ate a ton of these trying to get drunk I'd probably be wishing I had a hangover instead.

[HxChester]

[QUOTE=Timebomb575;46667192]Apparently they ID you guys when buying plastic cutlery and shit too?

like seriously what the fuck are you going to do with a plastic knife that you couldnt do with a sharpened stick???[/QUOTE]

Gotta be 18 to buy plastic knives in AUS too, not forks though go figure.

[mossboss]

FYI liqueurs are different from liquor in that they are usually mixed with spices, herbs, cream, sugar. So the usual proof of a liqueur is about 30-60. However, technically you can call anything you want a liqueur, providing it is alcohol based. They could be less than 10% abv and it'd be fine. Nothing this small is going to do anything. If it were liquor, and you ate A LOT, maybe. Honestly it's just efficient for the company, spirits help to not spoil product, and the fact that part of the content is (probably) cheap grain spirit/shit brandy, make it incredibly cheap to make.

Also there are a few liqueurs that are outliers. If there were chocolates filled with green chartreuse I would never go to a bar.

[confinedUser]

hey i remember these! deliciously sweet and get to have shots of liquor with it too. I loved these

[Pr0fane]

Yeah so Jack Daniels is pretty much a disgusting excuse of commercial whiskey but these are awesome:

[img]http://www.nogarlicnoonions.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/Jack-Daniels-Whiskey-Chocolate-Bar.jpg[/img]

Also, by far my favorite chocolats:
[img]http://s7v1.scene7.com/is/image/Harrods/2979973?$productMain$[/img]