please empty your brain below
Well there is an Ice Palace in the Ice Kingdom at Hyde Park's Winter Wonderland. Why anyone would want to pay to walk around in the freezing cold puzzles me.

John | 18.11.16 - 7:18 a.m. | #

I thought Rose's traditionally did lime cordial, not Robinsons?

| 18.11.16 - 7:39 a.m. | #

A mention in dispatches to Walker's shortbread who kindly sent me two packets of their finest when I wrote to complain that the art of dunking one's biscuit was a dying art...

boypathos | 18.11.16 - 8:08 a.m. | #

In the interests of full disclosure I think DG should tell us how many bottles of Knight Peveril gin/packets of Hobnobs he has received as reward for this blatant PR puffery.

Gavin | 18.11.16 - 8:33 a.m. | #

Chocolate biscuits and squash, ugh. Has to be tea.

Extraneous tenuously related baoting fact: One of the very last commercial narrow boat cargoes was lime pulp from Brentford to Roses' (Rose's?) factory at Boxmoor, which finished in the eighties.

Sarah | Homepage | 18.11.16 - 8:43 a.m. | #

I'm so used to the 'unbelievable' actually happening, e.g. Brexit, Trump etc. I clicked on one of the 'links'.
Even the BBC was puffing Hobnobs this morning with a bit about the highest ever 'dunk' of the aforementioned for the Guinness BOR.
I'm still not certain whether I'm cheered up or even more depressed.

Dave | 18.11.16 - 8:44 a.m. | #

>>Not only are these the ultimate comfort food but they're also ridiculously cheap to source...

It's called "buying". You go to a place called a "shop" and "buy" them. Honestly, do none of these people actually talk in a normal fashion?

Oh and btw, Hob Nobs are not cheap (unless you're a high paid chef for instance.)

Personally, I prefer chocolate digestives :)

| 18.11.16 - 8:48 a.m. | #

Businesses source goods, people buy them ;)

Andrew Bowden | Homepage | 18.11.16 - 8:59 a.m. | #

I too clicked on one of the links, just to be sure it was a spoof - so brilliant is DG's writing that I can never be 100% sure, and so unbelievable are some things that really have happened!

Cornish Cockney | 18.11.16 - 9:12 a.m. | #

John, the Ice Palace contains some fabulous ice sculptures which (dur!) you can only see if they are kept cold.

Next.

David | 18.11.16 - 9:29 a.m. | #

Well, I suppose this blog is free/gratis/priceless to us readers, therefore, we have to expect to 'read' complete and utter garbage now. (cf Time Out, Evening Standard etc etc....)

B | 18.11.16 - 11:15 a.m. | #

I prefer my Dark Chocolate HobNobs washed down with a chocolate milkshake made with chocolate icecream and chocolate milk.

Colesville Garth | 18.11.16 - 3:43 p.m. | #

If there's one thing Londoners love more than scouring the listings for fresh new consumer experiences, it's having their legs pulled by DG.

AndrewWS | Homepage | 18.11.16 - 4:08 p.m. | #

I don't need to make it up...

A Ferrero Rocher pop-up is opening in Covent Garden

The dessert bar will focus on "exploring the layers" of the famous, gold wrapped chocolate, from the hazelnut centre through smooth chocolate to that crisp wafer shell.

Guests (who we assume don't have to wear ballgown and tuxes) will eat a tasting plate of five mini-desserts followed by — wait for it — a Ferrero Rocher... hopefully presented in pyramid formation on a silver tray.

The five mini desserts will include a whole hazelnut coated in praline mousse; a chocolate case filled with ganache and wisps of spun sugar dusted with edible gold glitter.

The question is: will the ambassador be there to spoil us?

Tickets are priced from £10 for walk-ins and £15 with a glass of prosecco, pre-booked.

Dolce by Ferrero Rocher, Covent Garden from 1-11 December (closed Monday)

diamond geezer | Homepage | 18.11.16 - 5:52 p.m. | #

I intend to drop the phrase "mystical wellness tunnel" into conversation as soon as possible.

Chris P | 18.11.16 - 7:59 p.m. | #

Gin doesn't freeze... but aside from that, surely you all know about this? http://www.icebarlondon.com/ - it's a variation on a theme, but I went to one in Sydney-Town years ago - it was set-up by the Absolut company from memory. It was expensive, but fun, I have to say!

dg writes: Yes thanks, I've been.

Antipodean | 19.11.16 - 6:55 a.m. | #

I was taken in too by the
https://www.hobnobbers.co.uk/

its almost worth purchasing the domain

Jon Allen | 21.11.16 - 4:01 a.m. | #











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