Not so quality street

westy22

Thorntons still make the best Coffee Creams though.

barbiedoll

Most tins/boxes of chocolates at the cheaper end of the market are really grim now. I stopped buying (low) Quality Street when they changed the coconut one. I have to resort to stealing all of the Bounty ones out of the Celebrations tins.

Thornton's are nothing to write home about either. There's only so many truffles that you can eat. Back in the early 80's, my then-boyfriend had an accident at work and his bosses sent him a huge box of Thornton's chocs. Luckily for me, he wasn't a chocolate lover so I ended up scoffing most of them, they were divine! They're nothing like that now.

I do like Lindt chocolates, the red ball ones. And Bendicks bittermints are a wonderful thing. If you like fruity chocs, my mum has a real passion for these

Not a sultana in sight!

gunsandbanjos

Thornton chocolate is crap, only thing I like that they sell is their toffee.

I like Lindt, green and blacks and am partial to the odd Guylian seashell.

RuthnJasper

In Peter Kay's autobiography he relates an incident where an uncle gave Peter and his family a tin of QS that was several years out of date and gave the whole family the skitters. He says that, even now, his family call an episode of the squits "going for a jog down quality street"...

ibizafan_2

Thanks for reminding me about Lindt chocs, especially the red balls. Definitely going to go for them in future.

engineer_amy

westy22 wrote: »

Thorntons still make the best Coffee Creams though.

Ooooh the continental cappuccino ones are lovely.


The green triangle would be my current favourite in a tin of quality street, used to be the coffee creams and no one else in my family liked them so they were all mine. disappointed when they got discontinued

System

I rather have Quality (not Quality Street) rather than Quantity.

M&S own chocolates are moreish.

I do miss coffee creams. A few years ago, Asda did their own After Eights with coffee. They were very nice.

engineer_amy

ScarletMarble wrote: »

I rather have Quality (not Quality Street) rather than Quantity.

M&S own chocolates are moreish.

I do miss coffee creams. A few years ago, Asda did their own After Eights with coffee. They were very nice.

M&S do their own version of walnut whips which also come in mint and coffee varieties, coffee ones are beautiful. They keep them by the tills in our local M&S and I always stock up one the few occasions I treat myself to M&S shopping per year

ancientofdays

I think you could have been unlucky, we had some at work with several green triangles though not as many in the tins of yesteryear. Now there are none of course, I had one and then the vultures swept in.
By the end of the day, all that was left was a few orange/strawberry creams

nwc389

Every year since we got together (1982) my OH has bought me a box of cadburys roses . This year I have told him I don't want them as they aren't the same anymore .
I've never really been a quality street fan as there are too many toffees.
I now need to find a new box of chocolates that OH can buy me !