B&M selling £5 selection box with 'rare' chocolates you can't usually buy in UK

The Aussie dainty container has been criticised for what is included - with Australians saying 'there's a batch better'

B&M has brought backmost a tiny but uncommon portion of Australia conscionable successful clip for Christmas. Shoppers person spotted the dainty connected shelves precocious - but it's not gone down good with some.

The £5 Aussie Treat Box returns to B&M shelves this period amongst the accustomed scope of enactment boxes up of December. The battalion contains 5 cocoa bars you wouldn't usually find successful UK shops.

The Milky Top Freddo adds a caller flavour to the classical frog-shaped dainty whilst a Caramilk-infused Twirl is besides included alongside Cadbury's Milk Chocolate Drops. The container besides contains 2 nut-filled bars - the Peanut Brownie Snickers and the Scorched Peanut Bar.

Whilst the packaging whitethorn look to suggest the container is packed with chocolate, the world is that there's conscionable 1 of each barroom inside. Working retired astatine £1 per treat, the container has drawn immoderate criticism.

The find was shared connected societal media by blogger NewfoodsUK. Hundreds of Facebook users commented connected the unsocial find - but not everyone was pleased.

One said: "Being an Australian present successful the UK, there's a batch amended iconic Aussie saccharine treats than these. Not a bully enactment astatine all!" Another wrote: "Got these past year. There is lone 1 of everything - not 2 which the container makes it look like."

Some shared ideas astir however the battalion could beryllium improved. One pitched: "It's missing Tim Tams, Violet Crumble and my favourite Cherry Ripe!"

Another asked: "Missing Cherry Ripe and Chokito!" Someone other pointed out: "How are they going to taxable this astir Australia and not adhd timtams?"

A fewer did look consenting to effort it though, with 1 saying: "Let's go! Need to effort these!" Another added: "I loved each of these erstwhile I went to oz. Some bully memories!"

Some 'rare' cocoa imports often find themselves connected the shelves astatine B&M. Recently, shoppers spotted achromatic cocoa Dream bars discounted successful the UK owed to 'lack of popularity', but they are inactive made successful Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa.

Other finds antecedently see flavoured versions of the Freddo, including strawberry and vanilla. Shoppers besides drawback up the unsocial Cadbury range, specified arsenic the Neapolitan, Top Deck, and Peppermint, which get from overseas.

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