EXCLUSIVE: there’s a Quality Street plot-twist
Quality Street is changing again, but this time the reason is going to break your heart If you think you’ve
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Where are they now?
This week on my blog I’d like to share a family story, but also encourage you to save your family
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About Penny Thorpe
Penny Thorpe is a pen name of the Chocolate Historian Alex Hutchinson.
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The Great Easter Egg Conspiracy
It’s always around this time of year that I see memes and news stories circulating about the belief (and it’s a totally false belief) that chocolate manufacturers in the UK have removed the word Easter from their chocolate egg packaging in order to encourage sales to Muslims, or as part of a wider conspiracy to marginalise Christianity, or because something involving foreigners is changing the way we celebrate Easter in Britain.
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