Some years ago, I saw for sale some port and stilton chocolates. I subsequently learned that they were made by the people who were looking to find, grow and sell the legendary “King bean” eaten by Inca royalty as it didn’t contain the tannins that caused gas. They also reasoned that at Christmas everyone liked; port, stilton and chocolate so they would combine them and market the result.
I purchased them as we were seeing friends that night. I told the friends about the chocolates and said they sounded disgusting. They fell for it and said “Oh we’d have eaten them.”
So, we did. Utterly ****ing disgusting. They started out tasting like cheap raspberry creams, then a sort of mouldy turpentine flavour kicked in after which none of us could continue. I ended up putting them in a bowl of chocolates and watching people play an unwitting game of Russian roulette with them.
The moral may be that there are things that lots if not everyone likes but it is not necessarily a good idea to combine them!
The King bean search was featured in a Sunday Times article but I never heard any more about it. I don’t think the article was April 1st and it did mention the god-awful chocolates which were only too real.