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https://www.sees.com/chocolate/assortments https://www.sees.com/chocolate/assortments Forest Gump said that quote. He's referring to these box's of chocolates

https://www.sees.com/chocolate/assortments https://www.sees.com/chocolate/assortments Forest Gump said that quote. He's referring to these box's of chocolates where each candy contains some filling that's pretty much unknown until you eat it.

naniwaduni 6y ago
My experience is that those are generally labelled with a list of varieties included and their contents. Some boxes are better or worse about describing the candies in a way that makes them identifiable, I guess, but usually you can have a pretty good idea of what to expect before putting one in your mouth. Maybe this is a result of greater allergy awareness and wasn't true of the ... 80s? which kind of makes it a different simile...
- Geminidog 6y ago
  Usually there is no way to identify it. Even if the contents were spelled out, you wouldn't know which chocolate contained which filler. Forest Gump came out in the mid 90s.
  - username90 6y ago
    Every chocolate box I've seen had a description of each filling like this: https://mmmaladdin.blogg.se/images/2011/2006_aladdin2_161188218.jpg https://mmmaladdin.blogg.se/images/2011/2006_aladdin2_161188... And they have had it for a really long time, here is old version of the same box: https://cdn3.cdnme.se/cdn/8-1/3120698/images/2012/aladdin_80t_50ace981ddf2b360110018c6.jpg https://cdn3.cdnme.se/cdn/8-1/3120698/images/2012/aladdin_80... Why would you sell candy without telling people whats inside them? Most people don't like all fillings.
    - Geminidog 6y ago
      >Why would you sell candy without telling people whats inside them? Most people don't like all fillings. Why don't all countries use metric? Not everything in this universe needs to follow a perfectly logical explanation. As for the pictures, I can say the most famous brand people are most familiar with where I'm from is sees candy chocolate boxes. I've never seen Kraft candy, that company is mostly known for cheese. If sees candy did label their candies I've never seen it and therefore it must not have been very evident. Regardless what you think, the quote exists because most people usually don't know what they're eating when they put these candies in their mouths. See here for the quote: https://youtu.be/egkrxkiUnoo?t=43 https://youtu.be/egkrxkiUnoo?t=43 If you squint you'll see that's a Sees candy box.
      - username90 6y ago
        I always just assumed that "you didn't know what you'd get" meant that when the chocolate box gets to you only the shitty ones nobody likes are left. There is an alternative in my country which is "Going out is like a box of chocolate, if you wait too long there are just a few disgusting alcoholics in the corners left".

naniwaduni 6y ago

My experience is that those are generally labelled with a list of varieties included and their contents. Some boxes are better or worse about describing the candies in a way that makes them identifiable, I guess, but usually you can have a pretty good idea of what to expect before putting one in your mouth. Maybe this is a result of greater allergy awareness and wasn't true of the ... 80s? which kind of makes it a different simile...

Geminidog 6y ago
Usually there is no way to identify it. Even if the contents were spelled out, you wouldn't know which chocolate contained which filler. Forest Gump came out in the mid 90s.
- username90 6y ago
  Every chocolate box I've seen had a description of each filling like this: https://mmmaladdin.blogg.se/images/2011/2006_aladdin2_161188218.jpg https://mmmaladdin.blogg.se/images/2011/2006_aladdin2_161188... And they have had it for a really long time, here is old version of the same box: https://cdn3.cdnme.se/cdn/8-1/3120698/images/2012/aladdin_80t_50ace981ddf2b360110018c6.jpg https://cdn3.cdnme.se/cdn/8-1/3120698/images/2012/aladdin_80... Why would you sell candy without telling people whats inside them? Most people don't like all fillings.
  - Geminidog 6y ago
    >Why would you sell candy without telling people whats inside them? Most people don't like all fillings. Why don't all countries use metric? Not everything in this universe needs to follow a perfectly logical explanation. As for the pictures, I can say the most famous brand people are most familiar with where I'm from is sees candy chocolate boxes. I've never seen Kraft candy, that company is mostly known for cheese. If sees candy did label their candies I've never seen it and therefore it must not have been very evident. Regardless what you think, the quote exists because most people usually don't know what they're eating when they put these candies in their mouths. See here for the quote: https://youtu.be/egkrxkiUnoo?t=43 https://youtu.be/egkrxkiUnoo?t=43 If you squint you'll see that's a Sees candy box.
    - username90 6y ago
      I always just assumed that "you didn't know what you'd get" meant that when the chocolate box gets to you only the shitty ones nobody likes are left. There is an alternative in my country which is "Going out is like a box of chocolate, if you wait too long there are just a few disgusting alcoholics in the corners left".