SUCK ON THIS

How many women have wished for a non-calorific chocolate bar? Or, better still, one where the more you eat, the thinner you get? Well great news – now you can inhale chocolate into your mouth, via Le Whif, without ingesting a single calorie!

25% off rubbish doesn't make it a good deal

It sounds too good to be true, doesn’t it? It is too good to be true. Le Whif is rubbish. The directions tell you to crack open the tiny tubes and suck away (where have I heard that before?) Apparently it puts about 40 milligrams of chocolate in your mouth, coating it with a 'non-calorific taste sensation'. You’d do better inhaling the scent of Nutella through a straw (believe me, I’ve tried). Prezzy Box is currently offering at 25% discount on Le Whif and selling it for £4.46. I suspect their generous mark down is because no sane person would spend almost a tenner to suck essence of choc-choc through a tube.

At its best, this is chocolate flavoured air. At its worse, it’s chocolate flavoured air with a hint of plastic. That’s right – when you inhale, you get a nice taste of the tube too; a bit like licking the air vent in your car. The hit of chocolate wasn’t enough to be satisfying, but sufficient enough to make me start craving a huge bar of Cadbury’s, so it was utterly counterproductive. Honestly, the master chocolatier at Lindt doesn’t have a thing to worry about. His job is safe.

If you are curious about the Le Whif experience though, here's a how-to guide, so you can make one at home:

 YOU WILL NEED: 

• A straw

• A big bar of chocolate (your choice)

• A fine grater

• A used toilet roll.

DIRECTIONS:

• Grate your big bar of chocolate into a bowl using the fine grater

  

  You can hardly tell the difference

• Twist the end of the toilet roll, sealing off the bottom of the tube

• Tip your finely grated chocolate into the toilet roll

• Insert the straw, then twist the top of the toilet roll around it and sellotape closed

• Start sucking.