Roses chocolates - a bit of a con

ConstantGardener_3

It has become a tradition to buy a tin of Roses chocolates at Christmas.
In my larder this week I found a Roses tin from 1991 complete with label. It contained 2Kg of Roses.
This year's offering from Cadbury contains 850grams of Roses. Admittedly the tin is marginally smaller, its volume being some 10% less.
The same may well be true of all the other Christmas favourites but I don't have an old tin !

Murtle

I think you are missing a 1 in front of the 850grams. Not sure why it's a con? Surely that depends on the price you are paying for the product?

chesky369

That's twenty years ago!!! It's like comparing old restaurant menus or house prices. And how much did you earn then?

HOWMUCH

Just been and looked at my this years tin its 943g excluding wrapper and 975g including wrapper and we paid more than £4.50(Co-op) all those years ago.

margaretclare

ConstantGardener wrote: »

It has become a tradition to buy a tin of Roses chocolates at Christmas.
In my larder this week I found a Roses tin from 1991 complete with label. It contained 2Kg of Roses.
This year's offering from Cadbury contains 850grams of Roses. Admittedly the tin is marginally smaller, its volume being some 10% less.
The same may well be true of all the other Christmas favourites but I don't have an old tin !

Where? With whom has it 'become a tradition to buy a tin of these chocolates at Christmas'? I've never heard of such a 'tradition'!

What have Cadbury's chocolates got to do with Christmas?

As DH and I don't eat chocolates in any shape or form at any season of the year, it would never become a tradition for us.

POPPYOSCAR

Well judging by the number of tins I see in peoples trollies I would say they have become a Christmas 'tradition' . They have in my house and that of most people I know.

margaretclare

POPPYOSCAR wrote: »

Well judging by the number of tins I see in peoples trollies I would say they have become a Christmas 'tradition' . They have in my house and that of most people I know.

So explain the tradition - what do you do with them, when do you open the tin, at the same time as opening presents, at midnight on Christmas Eve, when you get back from church, with Christmas dinner? Who started this tradition, and why does it have to be this particular make of chocolate?

If I ever ate chocolate at all it would be something like Green& Black's. Cadbury's is more sugar than chocolate, and I wouldn't buy it.

POPPYOSCAR

margaretclare wrote: »

So explain the tradition - what do you do with them, when do you open the tin, at the same time as opening presents, at midnight on Christmas Eve, when you get back from church, with Christmas dinner? Who started this tradition, and why does it have to be this particular make of chocolate?

If I ever ate chocolate at all it would be something like Green& Black's. Cadbury's is more sugar than chocolate, and I wouldn't buy it.

The 'tradition' is to to buy one for the christmas season. Why does it matter when you eat them?

Not everyone puts up decorations at the same time, or the tree, or sits down to Christmas dinner at the same time.

I only buy these at Christmas and not at any other time of the year.Just because you don't like them many other people do,hence why you see so many of them for sale at this time of the year.

I have no idea how this started and why.

margaretclare

But that's what I was asking. Why, how and when did this become a 'tradition'? There is usually a reason behind most traditions, even if that reason is lost in the mists of time.

Many of the Christmas traditions go back to pagan Yule - decorating with evergreens, for instance. Others were started in early Victorian times - Christmas cards for instance, which coincided with the start of the 'penny post'. Christmas trees were introduced by Prince Albert, a German tradition.

I've never heard of any such tradition to do with chocolates.

V_Chic_Chick

Perhaps OP meant that it's become a tradition in their household.

That said, it's also a bit of a tradition in my household too. But just because there is a tradition, it doesn't mean that everyone follows it - certainly as vegetarian atheists we don't go to midnight mass, or eat turkey on the big day, but we still celebrate Christmas with our own traditions - and a tin of Roses!

dzug1

HOWMUCH wrote: »

Just been and looked at my this years tin its 943g excluding wrapper and 975g including wrapper and we paid more than £4.50(Co-op) all those years ago.

They were on offer on many supermarkets for that sort of price about a month back

Moral - buy early.