Chocolate Dissection

A definitive ruling on the reality of soft and fluffy.  There are three types of mousse in this world: thick and with good quality; light, fluffy and with no quality; and those that can speak English because they learnt it from a book. Given the reliably pessimistic tone of this blog there should be little doubt which category the After Eight Mousse falls into. Essentially, After Eights are the poor man’s Ferrero Rocher. They’re like Blackpool compared to London, or Rihanna to Rick Astley. You can pop into any discount store, pick up a small box for a pound and display it proudly on your coffee table at home so that other people can politely acknowledge that you’ve made an effort for a change – while quietly consigning you to an inevitable future in the workhouse. It turns out that the mousse version of After Eight is basically a workhouse made from jelly. Blackcurrant flavoured jelly. The mousse certainly fell into the light and fluffy category, providing literally no resistan