'Too pretty to eat': 100 year-old Christmas chocolates to go on sale
Eileen Elmes kept the fancy chocolates her whole life after having refused to eat them as a child
When youngster Eileen Elmes received the Little Red Riding Hood Pascall’s Chocolate Novelties as a Christmas present she deemed them too special to try.
Instead she kept them untouched until she died aged 99 in 2007.
They have now been put up for sale by Eileen’s niece, who did not want to be named, who hopes they will be put on display in a chocolate museum.
She said: “My aunt told me she couldn’t eat the chocolates because they were so pretty and beautifully wrapped, even though she loved chocolate.