It’s hard to even imagine trying to do Christmas without the chocolate selection box. Their ubiquity is such that nowadays people don’t even need to remember the names of the actual chocolates themselves: colour and shape is generally sufficient to get the point across.
A box of chocolates, while very nice, is far too regimented and organised to properly represent the experience of a family Christmas. For that, only a huge bucket of randomly assorted, brightly wrapped old familiar favourites – and adversaries p will do. But when did this most ingrained of festive traditions begin, and how many chocolates have fallen by the wayside to get to where we are now?
