So, we sat down (on two separate nights, because this is too large a task for one sitting) to compare all the 24 Bonne Maman advent calendar spreads. For some of them it was pretty hard to discern a flavor (except "sweet" - memories of Valerie Martin's sweet tooth when she was our exchange student in the 80s remind me that French things that aren't salty do tend towards the syrupy - there was a notable absence of Marmalades in this collection), but it probably didn't help that the delivery system we were using was my patented many-flour grain-free bread, toasted, with Miyoko's dairy free "butter".
Perhaps a plain cracker would have been better. Be that as it may... drumroll... THE RANKINGS:
As you can see, the simple classics scored the best (we ranked before we looked to see what it was, which required putting on powerful readers, because the script is tiny and curly), which is perhaps unsurprising. I'm glad we did it, it made my December, but we don't need to do it again. Next year, tiny liquor bottles? They are lovely little jars, though, and the attention to detail is great - each jar has a little picture of the main ingredient on a sticker that gets ripped when you open it.
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