This to me says that someone – quite possibly a grown adult – has been a bit peckish and had a nibble on their decorated spruce (without even removing the packaging, mind), and now we all suffer for their mistake.

by Silvagadron

19 comments

  1. My nan used to have her Christmas tree absolutely covered in little chocolates. If these were about back when I was a kid I would have definitely tried to eat them.

  2. Wait what? Now I have to return mine, thought they were real chocolates!

  4. If I had one of these, there’s absolutely no fucking way I’d be returning it. I’d be hoping most other people comply, John Lewis destroys them all and mine ends up super-rare. It’d be getting wrapped up and kept as a family heirloom.

    In my mind, it ends up on Antiques Roadshow in 2087 and the robot doing the valuation is stunned.

  5. Passive aggressive underlining under glass baubles is a nice touch!

  6. You’d have thought someone somewhere in a great big company might have looked at this idea, for decorations designed to look like food and be hung up somewhere food might well be but which actually aren’t food and are made of glass, and gone “maybe this won’t end well”.

  7. SURELY, WE CAN COLLECTIVELY AGREE NOT TO EAT THE TREE ORNAMENTS???!!

  9. Where there is a rule, there is a reason. So yes this sounds like the reason.

  10. What is the charge? Eating a bauble? A succulent glass bauble?

  11. Bit of a daft idea anyway. What are they, some kind of cruel prank?

  12. I didn’t know these existed, would have loved a set. I do get why they might be a bad idea though.

  13. I’m told that as a toddler, I ate a piece of every chocolate decoration I could reach on the tree and then tried to fold the foil back to get away with it.

  14. There’s a lot to unwrap here – apparently something someone doesn’t do to their Quality Street

  15. I used to be a Christmas decoration buyer for a retailer and I’m pretty sure there is some peice of legislation that if a Christmas decoration even looks like it could be perceived as a toy, it has to be tested as a toy and so a glass fake sweet would be a definite no-no and should never have got to market. This was about 15 years ago though so I could be wrong

  17. My nan used to decorate her tree with sweets. How did this make production?

  18. I was going to buy a set of these the other day. How disappointing

  19. Who would try to eat a sweet without taking the wrapping off? Not even a toddler would do that

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