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[brin_bellway]

It's traditional in my household to put a chocolate orange out on the New Year's Eve dessert table: you can usually get them at a good price during post-Christmas sales.

I did, indeed, find them at a good price during this year's post-Christmas sales! And the batch they were selling didn't expire until May 2026!

So I bought two of them, and now we have *next* year's NYE orange already sorted out.

(I put a note on my calendar for 2025-12-23 reminding me that we already have one. I may, next year, rotate in a 2027 orange and repeat the cycle; but if I don't find any chocolate oranges in stock at a good price next year, it's no big deal.)

Comments

[contrarianarchon]

*reads link* wait, are your chocolate oranges not orange flavoured?

[brin_bellway]

They're orange-flavoured. (Well, the normal ones are. I *did* also see some mint ones at a different store, but I did not buy any of those.)

I'm not sure what about the article gave you the impression they weren't orange-flavoured?

[contrarianarchon]

I missed the "with orange flavouring" in the top paragraph and the structure paragraph doesn't mention any attributes of the chocolate at all, in fact, skimming the page, that's the only mention of flavour at all.