Fox's Mint Poppets

Mint Poppets were always going to be a winner with me because I love mint and I love dark chocolate so what was not to like about a dark chocolate mint cream which is what a mint Poppet is in case anyone did not know. I used to buy boxes of these a week for work but had not had them in about a year till I picked box up in my local paper shop a few days ago. The packaging has stayed pretty much the same, a green box about the size of a deck of cards (well just a little smaller), with the word Poppets on it in black and the word mint below that in white. The word mint is needed because you also get toffee Poppets and you used to also get other ...

Fox's Mint Poppets Mmmmm, my mouth is watering. I love all chocolate and in particular all minty chcolate, but these really are good. Poppets have been around for years and I even rember having them when in primary school. What are they? They are small round individual sweets make of a mint cream fondant covered in dark choclate. Poppets are all packaged together in a rather strange little box. The box is rectangular and has a side panel that you tear to open. The sweets are then dispensed one at a time without any mess. The box has changed in the last few years and iscnow bright green in colour with a picture of a yellow duck ...

Yesterday I popped down to Asda for a couple of bits we needed, while there I thought I would treat my other half and myself to something that we rarely have, a bar of chocolate or some sweets so I looked at what was on offer in the aisle. I considered strawberry laces and Haribo bags, then I saw something we had a reminisced about just a week or so ago, Poppets. We both enjoyed them as children and had said that we hadn't seen them for a long time so when I saw them there was no question about what I would be buying! I bought the toffee variety for my other half and a mint flavour pack for myself. At only 34p per pack I don't actually ...