TWELVE male friends have found fame on the internet after dressing up as a Christmas selection box for a pub crawl round Dublin.

The mates visited 12 watering holes around the city, dressed as chocolate treats, comprising a Crunchie, Flake, Twirl, Double Decker, Time Out, Dairy Milk, Chocolate Buttons, Fudge, Caramel, Chomp, Wispa and, of course, Curly Wurly.

The pals, two of home travelled from Australia to take part, posted a photo on social media site Twitter and the snap has received more than 4,000 retweets as well as 2.3m views on Facebook.

Businessman Aaron Johnston, who came up with the idea, told The Daily Mail: “We’ve been doing the 12 pubs bar crawl every year for the last seven years.

“Every year we have a different theme. Last year we went as the nativity and we didn’t think we could top that this year – then we came up with this.

“My friend Craig made all the costumes by hand. We all chipped in with a few quid.”