# Chocolate Advent calendars - are they gone everywhere?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chocolate-advent-calendars-are-they-gone-everywhere/804256
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion
**Created:** [December 12, 2017, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chocolate-advent-calendars-are-they-gone-everywhere/804256 "2017-12-12T03:03:18Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)
#### Post date: [December 12, 2017, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chocolate-advent-calendars-are-they-gone-everywhere/804256/1 "2017-12-12T03:03:18Z")
We always get one of those (cheap) Advent calendars, where you get a little piece of chocolate every day. Yes, they’re cheap chocolate, but they are a tradition. We have been getting them for years.
Except this year. No one has them. I mean, no one. Has something changed? Are they just out of style, in one year?
Do you have them in your area? Is it just Arizona that is in a cheap chocolate drought?
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### Author:  [@thelurkinghorror](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thelurkinghorror)
#### Post date: [December 12, 2017, 3:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chocolate-advent-calendars-are-they-gone-everywhere/804256/2 "2017-12-12T03:46:38Z")
Costco has beer advent calendars. I think chocolate, too.
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### Author:  [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)
#### Post date: [December 12, 2017, 3:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chocolate-advent-calendars-are-they-gone-everywhere/804256/3 "2017-12-12T03:56:43Z")
They were in the grocery stores here last month, but they’re all long gone by now.
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### Author:  [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)
#### Post date: [December 12, 2017, 4:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chocolate-advent-calendars-are-they-gone-everywhere/804256/4 "2017-12-12T04:07:06Z")
My wife always drags one of these things home. If I listened to her, I would know where it came from.
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### Author:  [@Oredigger77](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oredigger77)
#### Post date: [December 12, 2017, 4:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chocolate-advent-calendars-are-they-gone-everywhere/804256/5 "2017-12-12T04:22:17Z")
We got one 10 days ago from Barnes and Noble.
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### Author:  [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)
#### Post date: [December 12, 2017, 8:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chocolate-advent-calendars-are-they-gone-everywhere/804256/6 "2017-12-12T08:54:14Z")
I’m in Belgium, where chocolate anything is very much a national institution 🙂
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### Author:  [@thelurkinghorror](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thelurkinghorror)
#### Post date: [December 12, 2017, 9:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chocolate-advent-calendars-are-they-gone-everywhere/804256/7 "2017-12-12T09:56:02Z")
> [@Nava](#):
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> I’m in Belgium, where chocolate anything is very much a national institution 🙂
And beer too.
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### Author:  [@RivkahChaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RivkahChaya)
#### Post date: [December 12, 2017, 10:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chocolate-advent-calendars-are-they-gone-everywhere/804256/8 "2017-12-12T10:21:42Z")
Wouldn’t it be fairly easy to make one? I’m not terribly familiar with them, but I know some friends who had them when I was a kid, and they were just made out of cardboard. Seems like you could easily download a picture, buy a bag of Hershey’s kisses, some poster board, and a bottle of rubber cement, and have one in about 15 minutes.
ETA: Amazon is selling several different kinds. I don’t know how much you want to spend, but they do have overnight delivery.
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### Author:  [@Eureka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eureka)
#### Post date: [December 12, 2017, 11:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chocolate-advent-calendars-are-they-gone-everywhere/804256/9 "2017-12-12T11:30:27Z")
Another vote for they existed (this year), but they are all sold now.
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### Author:  [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)
#### Post date: [December 12, 2017, 11:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chocolate-advent-calendars-are-they-gone-everywhere/804256/10 "2017-12-12T11:49:40Z")
You’re supposed to have them by the 1st, aren’t you? May as well be trying to get a pumpkin on sale two weeks after Halloween.
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### Author:  [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)
#### Post date: [December 12, 2017, 11:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chocolate-advent-calendars-are-they-gone-everywhere/804256/11 "2017-12-12T11:55:57Z")
> [@Smapti](#):
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> You’re supposed to have them by the 1st, aren’t you? May as well be trying to get a pumpkin on sale two weeks after Halloween.
By the first day of Advent, in theory.
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### Author:  [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)
#### Post date: [December 12, 2017, 1:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chocolate-advent-calendars-are-they-gone-everywhere/804256/12 "2017-12-12T13:12:13Z")
They had them around here, as usual.
I don’t generally like the chocolate in them. But this year, I bought a chocolate advent calendar made in Britain (I got it at one of the stores that specialize in BritFood) for my sister.
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### Author:  [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)
#### Post date: [December 12, 2017, 1:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chocolate-advent-calendars-are-they-gone-everywhere/804256/13 "2017-12-12T13:28:11Z")
> [@Smapti](#):
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> You’re supposed to have them by the 1st, aren’t you? May as well be trying to get a pumpkin on sale two weeks after Halloween.
Exactly, but I never saw them. We started looking before the first, of course, and none were to be found. We asked a couple stores and they both said that they never even got any this year, rather than them being sold out.
In the past, there have always been extras still on sale into December here.
Maybe the trucks coming to Mesa got hijacked. Maybe there’s a black market in stolen ones. 🙂
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### Author:  [@Lord\_Feldon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lord_Feldon)
#### Post date: [December 12, 2017, 1:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chocolate-advent-calendars-are-they-gone-everywhere/804256/14 "2017-12-12T13:42:22Z")
> [@Nava](#):
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> By the first day of Advent, in theory.
These “advent” calendars usually start on December 1st regardless of the liturgical calendar.
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### Author:  [@One\_And\_Only\_Wanderers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/One_And_Only_Wanderers)
#### Post date: [December 12, 2017, 2:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chocolate-advent-calendars-are-they-gone-everywhere/804256/15 "2017-12-12T14:10:36Z")
Supermarkets were full of them in the UK. 3 fine examples are in use by my wife and kids.
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### Author:  [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)
#### Post date: [December 12, 2017, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chocolate-advent-calendars-are-they-gone-everywhere/804256/16 "2017-12-12T14:31:29Z")
> [@Lord\_Feldon](#):
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> These “advent” calendars usually start on December 1st regardless of the liturgical calendar.
The ones in Spain don’t, or didn’t back when we bought one; I haven’t checked current Belgian ones.
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### Author:  [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)
#### Post date: [December 12, 2017, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chocolate-advent-calendars-are-they-gone-everywhere/804256/17 "2017-12-12T14:44:20Z")
I was given a promotional chocolate advent calendar this year - my 50th Christmas and the first one I’ve ever had (as a child, advent calendars were just cards with doors that revealed (usually religious or just traditional) pictures. Last year I did have an advent calendar, but it contained a kit of parts to make a radio - this is my first chocolate one.
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### Author:  [@Sir\_T-Cups](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sir_T-Cups)
#### Post date: [December 12, 2017, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chocolate-advent-calendars-are-they-gone-everywhere/804256/18 "2017-12-12T14:54:06Z")
Definitely had them at Trader Joe’s recently.
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### Author:  [@Doctor\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doctor_Jackson)
#### Post date: [December 12, 2017, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chocolate-advent-calendars-are-they-gone-everywhere/804256/19 "2017-12-12T15:04:43Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#):
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> But this year, I bought a chocolate advent calendar made in Britain (I got it at one of the stores that specialize in BritFood) for my sister.
Yes, but that calendar counts metric days. Your sister will be celebrating Christmas 3 days earlier than everyone else. Or is that 3 days later? I never can remember the conversion formula.
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### Author:  [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)
#### Post date: [December 12, 2017, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chocolate-advent-calendars-are-they-gone-everywhere/804256/20 "2017-12-12T15:41:39Z")
> [@Doctor\_Jackson](#):
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> Yes, but that calendar counts metric days. Your sister will be celebrating Christmas 3 days earlier than everyone else. Or is that 3 days later? I never can remember the conversion formula.
Double and add thirty.
So Christmas is on the 80th of Deci-ember
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