That’s kind of interesting, Elendil’s Heir, because there’s another Dahl story where a supposed expert makes a bet at a dinner party that he can guess blind the vineyard and vintage of a wine. The bet turns out to be the hand of the party giver’s daughter. And the expert is revealed to be a cheat.
A lot of short stories are written off templates.
Bloom!? :dubious: How long are they storing this stuff before shipping it? And in what conditions?
If they didn’t have pictures, I wouldn’t believe it. That is so easy to prevent! Are we positive the photographer didn’t leave it sitting open for a few days before taking the pictures? Chocolate is not supposed to look like that coming out of the box, not when it’s coming from an alleged ‘high-end’ chocolatier …
Bloom. Poor tempering. Sloppy construction.
It’s just shoddy work all around.
