NEWS AND INVESTIGATIONS
Which Celebrations are Worth Celebrating? he selection chocolate box. A celebration staple. Whether you’re a Roses at anniversaries or a Heroes for St. George’s Day, we all have a special tub and we all have a favourite treat within. For this magazine, Wessex Scene are investigating which of the chocolates in a Celebrations tub comes out on top, and which ones truly are worth celebrating.
Firstly, it’s important to note the discrepancies in the number of each chocolate that was available in the box. We bought our box at Portswood Sainsbury’s (£5 but only £3.99 in ALDI) with the hope of having equal number of all the available chocolates: Milky Way, Bounty, Mars, Snickers, Twix, Galaxy, Galaxy Caramel, and Maltesers Teaser. We were shocked by the results. While we understand there is usually less of the Galaxy chocolates (bougie and expensive), we were not expecting such a low amount of Bounty’s, especially when we often see these red tubs strewn with such chocolates, months old. What else were we to discover?
WORDS BY JAGO LAWS-ROBINSON and EMILY DENNIS
· Free Fall (which survived multiple three-story drops) · Bag Test (which remained molecularly sound after spending the day in a bag)
In this graph, the x-axis is time, measured in 30 seconds intervals, and the y-axis is level of destruction. As we can see, after ten minutes, both the Galaxy and the Maltesers Teaser were not visually disfigured by their time in the oven. The Galaxy Caramel didn’t take long to become a splodge (predictable) but surprisingly, it was the Mars that created the biggest pool. However after melting, the Milky Way, Bounty, Galaxy, and Mars lost their appeal and were not unanimously voted as ‘still tasty’.
THE EXPERIMENTS As well as finding out the most popular from our fellow students, we subjected the chocolates to a number of specialist experiments, each testing out something that affects our everyday enjoyment of snacks. The experiments we devised ran as follows: · · · · 20
Trial by Fire (which chocolates lasted best when subjected to the oven) Melty Blind Taste Test (which tastes the best once its texture is removed) Freezer Test (which were the most succulent after getting iced) Senseless Sniffing (which one was the most desired based on smell alone)
For this test, we melted down each chocolate and spoon fed it to our subject. They would rate the taste out of ten (ten being literal perfection), with the fragilities of textures out of the question. While they made some guesses as to what each were, the Mars, Milky Way and Galaxy Caramel all got confused with each other. From this test, we saw that pure chocolate comes out on top.
CELEBRATIONS
