I, too, am shocked that you weren't familiar with "Things Can Only Get Better." I'm not sure how you avoided it, but good on you!

Revels: I'm between the two options. If I want something sweet and a pack of Revels is one of the choices, fine. If not, that's also fine. But you should try them at least once, I think.

I suspect it's because I arrived in the UK in 2004, when the sheen was definitely off the '97 Labour victory and cynicism was taking hold properly.

I will try them once, but I suspect they're going to be a bit torturous for me to eat, as I inspect each one trying to work out which flavour I'm going to get.

Revels are plain cheap chocolate roulette. "Am I going to get the coffee flavour?"

The triple whammy is Prof Brian Cox being part of the D:Ream team :-)

So Brian Cox (actor) could be the same bloke but time-shifted and earning money for time-machine repairs the only way the time-authorities will allow?

I will try Revels once, but I suspect that, as a person who likes to sort my Skittles and gummy bears and eat them in carefully designed groups, I will find them a little torturous.

This is one of those occasions where A doesn't let me use my dearest friends as a comparitor* to prove that I'm not odd.


* Me: look! See! It's not just me! It's normal for people to sort their sweets by a category or their choice, and then eat them in a specific order!
A: is it imyril , nanila or swiral that does this as well?
Me: maaayybee.
A: *raises eyebrow and looks pointedly*
Me: ok. grumblegrumblegrumble.

Because, invisible

No Revels here. Had to look them up!

That sone was everywhere over here too. Was just never a hit in the US I guess.

Heh, that's a nice one. :D "We tried really hard to make this exciting..."

Yes, once I'd searched for images of Revels, I realised I'd seen packs of them before but had never picked one up!

Revels: perfectly nice overall, but will this be the coffee one?! Bleurgh.

I quite like chocolate-covered coffee beans - will I like coffee Revels, or are they horrid even if you do like coffee+chocolate?

Revels aren't high-quality anything, so as long as you're looking for "mars bar" level confectionery, they're fine :)

Revels are, as your other poster indicated, chocolate roulette. If you like coconut and if you like coffee creams then there is little point in playing. It is mostly agreed that coffee ones are the least favorite. Lets be honest we eat them anyway.

You can mostly sort the pack of revels by size and shape.
95% of the time you will identify all the maltesers.
The chocolate lumps are flat buttons.

You will be left with two piles depending on the current contents...
Pile one are smaller and irregular ovals. They are usually raisins but occasionally a peanut and sometimes an orange.

Pile two are small smooth spheres. They contain orange cream ( yummy), coconut cream (ok), the occasional malteser (yuk) or a coffee cream.
Choosing the coffee results in a forfeit such as having to make the tea at the next ad break. ( This is a game played during a DVD night) or having to give a foot rub.

It is a British Institution! Enjoy.

I didn't manage to buy Revels this weekend, so I may be playing this game on the train back to Birmingham later this week. :D