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Hotel Chocolat's vegan advent calendar is leaving shoppers puzzled

Shoppers don't seem to be having much luck with their advent calendar purchases this Christmas .

If you missed it - first customers complained that Bounty was the first chocolate out of the Celebrations calendar on December 1, then have been upsetting kids with missing chocolate and now Hotel Chocolat is under fire.

Customers were left puzzled when they grabbed their vegan advent calendar this morning and discovered a big problem.

They took to Twitter to point out what happened when they went to open door number three this morning, reports the MEN .

Phoenix Nights star and comedian Justin Moorhouse tweeted: "Ok. So this Advent Calendar from hotelchocolat contains no dairy,nuts,gluten and wheat. And what ‘annoyingly’ else? It’s the 3rd today. If you need a clue."

Have you spotted it yet?

There's actually no day three door on the advent calendar and a two doors for December 7.

People were quick to laugh about it, with one Twitter user writing: "It's three from everything it seems (hmm, that joke doesn't work typed down)."

Bethan Pickering also found day number three missing from her Free From Hotel Chocolat advent calendar.

She tweeted: "Erm  @HotelChocolat  where’s me number 3 hun?! And why are there two 7’s?! You had one job.

Another tweet said: "I think its a clever joke. Free From! so theres no 3."

A spokesperson for Hotel Chocolat told the Liverpool ECHO: "As an ethical company, we’d never waste chocolate or packaging if we can help it. Ever!

"We noticed we’d made an error with our advent door numbering. So we reduced the price of the calendar and added a sticker on the outside, openly explaining our mistake."

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