What chocolates did I have on British Airways?

December 7, 2010 5:13 PM

What chocolates did I have on British Airways?

I was on a British Airways flight a couple months ago (business class if that matters), and I had a very good chocolate that I want to buy a bunch of for X-Mas. They were round in some sort of gold foil. I remember them having a name that sounded like a woman's name. In searching around the net just now, they look like Ferraro Rocher, but I don't know if that's what they were. That name doesn't sound like a woman's name to me. I've never heard of Ferraro Rocher before. I don't think I would have remembered "woman's name souding candy". I would have remembered "ferrari name sounding candy". Maybe.

Anyway, if you have any guesses, or have been on a British Airways flight recently and have a better memory than me, I would appreciate it.

Thanks.

posted by gummo to Food & Drink (15 answers total)

Last time I was on BA, I'm 99% sure they gave me a Ferraro Rocher.
posted by schmod at 5:18 PM on December 7, 2010

Last time I was on British Airways, they gave us the best little Cadbury milk chocolate bars I've ever had. I mean, I'd had Cadbury milk before, but these were exceptionally good. A look at the Cadbury website indicates they have a (newish?) line of individual chocolates called Koko. Could that have been it?
posted by miss patrish at 5:22 PM on December 7, 2010 [1 favorite]

Do you remember the taste? Ferrero Rocher is very noticeably flavoured with hazelnut.
posted by ripley_ at 5:25 PM on December 7, 2010

Ferrero Roche looks like this and it's a pretty easily obtained mass-market chocolate. you should be able to find it in places like NYC no sweat.
posted by krautland at 5:46 PM on December 7, 2010

Perhaps something from the Lindt / Lindor range?
posted by dirm at 5:50 PM on December 7, 2010

Best answer: Lily O'Brien's, the last time I was on BA.
posted by milkrate at 5:52 PM on December 7, 2010 [2 favorites]

Sorry, more at lindt.com.
posted by dirm at 5:53 PM on December 7, 2010

Their website says "Fairtrade chocolate".

Other women's name sounding chocolates (but not sure about fairtrade) could be Godiva or Valrona?
posted by AnnaRat at 10:47 PM on December 7, 2010

Woman-sounding-named chocolates: Godiva, Fran's.
posted by Ellemeno at 10:58 PM on December 7, 2010

It's a few months since I've been business on BA, but for a fair period they were serving Lily O'Brien's, as milkrate says.
posted by Jakey at 1:45 AM on December 8, 2010

Elizabeth Shaw make round chocolates wrapped in foil - mint crisp (plain and milk), and my favourite orange crisp.
posted by car01 at 1:58 AM on December 8, 2010

As an aside: If you ate the chocolate during the flight, it might taste very different if eaten on the ground, in an un-pressurized environment without the usual in-flight noise: Science finds the plane truth about in-flight meals.

There was a MeFi thread about this phenomenon a little while ago: Why does airline food taste so bland?
posted by amf at 3:34 AM on December 8, 2010

I haven't flown on BA for a long time but I do live in the UK - Fran's is unheard of here, Godiva and Valrhona are probably too fancy for airline food.

Very likely it was Lily O'Briens (I've been given complimentary chocolate elsewhere with this branding) or an Elizabeth Shaw mint. Cadbury's products would have the logo on which is pretty distinctive...and now I really want a Twirl.
posted by mippy at 4:16 AM on December 8, 2010

I did wonder about Green and Black's but that doesn't fit the round or the woman's name description.
posted by mippy at 4:17 AM on December 8, 2010

I searched on FlyerTalk and it seems like they're either Lily O'Briens or Linden Lady.
posted by knile at 5:20 AM on December 8, 2010