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I have never seen such posh chocolate – persian lime sounds good but not sure about the basil. Is this the stuff people with claaaaaaas eat?
Rococo chocolate is amazing. They have it in Waitrose but this was from their shop in Marylebone. Blinking lovely. It is that stuff! The basil worked.