Notes on chocolate: how to steer clear of a domestic meltdown

Many years ago, before satnav, I used to navigate, while my partner drove, with the excellent Reader’s Digest road atlas open on my lap (how I miss it). I’m a skilled, ex-military-trained navigator. One famous day, after he hadn’t listened to my instructions, we ended up lost. He threw the atlas back into my lap saying, ‘Get us out of this mess.’ Reader, I did.

‘Do you want anything?’ my partner asked. ‘No,’ I said, my voice thick with sulk. But, actually, I wanted a Snickers

You’d think with satnav the arguments would have stopped, but they have not. Now it’s a case of whichever satnav I choose isn’t quite right: the writing isn’t big enough, the instructions not clear enough. Thus it was that we were driving back from York arguing about the relative merits of Apple v Google v the car’s satnav when I decided to stop talking. We got to a service station. ‘Do you want anything?’ he asked. ‘No,’ I said, my voice thick with sulk. But, actually, I wanted a Snickers and I thought about it all the way home.

Because I was clearly right and karma was on my side what was waiting for me when I got home? Not a Snickers, but a set of Pridi Cacaofevier snack bars in among which was their version of a Snickers. Pridi is a Thai-based chocolate maker (there aren’t many of them) and this is a cute box holding four 25g filled bars (they look like mini-Bountys and one is similar, but oodles better).

There’s the peanut caramel one I pounced on, a coconut bar, one with cashew crisp and the last one with caramel cookie. All covered in 64% Thai dark chocolate. These aren’t cheap, £12.95, but they’re gorgeous and perfect if you enjoyed newsagent favourites, but now prefer them with less sugar. An occasional treat.

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