Not so quality street

nickcc

All we seem to get nowadays are loads of Belgian truffles, this was a novelty back in the eighties but they all seem to taste the same.

20aday

nwc389 wrote: »

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 !

Not as cheap as a tin of Cadbury Roses or Nestl! Quality Street but they are extremely delicious!: http://www.hotelchocolat.com/uk/shop/collections/products/chocolate-box

I never really forgave Cadbury for removing the Coffee Cream from their tins a few years ago; the Coffee Escape that made a reappearance last year is "OK" but not a patch on it.

In terms of Thornton's the only chocolates I ever liked from them was the Viennese Truffles but even they aren't what they used to be.

Interestingly enough I'm led to believe Thornton's manufacture chocolates for Marks & Spencer and for saying Cadbury brought Green & Black's a few years ago G&B chocolate is much nicer.

Herrerarera

forgotmyname wrote: »

Cleaning the loft out i found an old metal tin i had filled with odd nuts and bolts collected from all those projects that i took apart and needed less of them when putting it back together

The weight printed on the tin 2.5kg.. What do they weigh now? less than 800g ?

I used to manage a shop in the 80s and 90s and remember that the QS and Roses tins were 2.5kg and were usually priced at £9.99.
Tesco have all tins (well, they're plastic tubs now) priced at £5 but Roses weigh 729g, QS 780g, Heroes 695g and Celebrations 750g.

teddysmum

On a forum I use, we had a thread about bygones in confectionary, after a member posted a vintage print of a sweet shop .


My memories:


The Christmas wafer thin (two bar pack) of Cadbury (possibly Rowntree) dark chocolate with almond chips, that my late father always had and shared. (It was in a cream wrapper with green or blue detail , depending on the variety of nut).


Fry's mini fruit creams, plus violet and rose (again Christmas only as they were very expensive)


Amazin, Aztec and Rumbar, all with raisins.


Jellymallows, which came in tangerine, raspberry and lime flavours (a layer of mallow on jelly in dark chocolate and cheap enough for a 12+, on little pocket money, to afford all three)


Nestles triple bar (with thin layers of white, dark and milk stuck together and lasted ages if you separated them)


Fry's 5 fruit creams (also a larger bar with two duplicate flavours : orange, raspberry, pineapple, strawberry and lime )

Azari

Nux bars....

teddysmum

In my gran's sweetshop: liquorice laces with flavour and biscuit cones with mallow covered in sprinkles and fruity crystals inside.

aggypanthus

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.

Made by Thorntons

aggypanthus

teddysmum wrote: »

On a forum I use, we had a thread about bygones in confectionary, after a member posted a vintage print of a sweet shop .


My memories:


The Christmas wafer thin (two bar pack) of Cadbury (possibly Rowntree) dark chocolate with almond chips, that my late father always had and shared. (It was in a cream wrapper with green or blue detail , depending on the variety of nut).


Fry's mini fruit creams, plus violet and rose (again Christmas only as they were very expensive)


Amazin, Aztec and Rumbar, all with raisins.


Jellymallows, which came in tangerine, raspberry and lime flavours (a layer of mallow on jelly in dark chocolate and cheap enough for a 12+, on little pocket money, to afford all three)


Nestles triple bar (with thin layers of white, dark and milk stuck together and lasted ages if you separated them)


Fry's 5 fruit creams (also a larger bar with two duplicate flavours : orange, raspberry, pineapple, strawberry and lime )

I loved the triple bar, nibbling away at each layer. I worked a summer job in a sweet shop, I was on the choc bar counter. I think they cost 5 p a bar.

Sheel

teddysmum wrote: »

Fry's mini fruit creams

Do you mean the box of little cup shaped chocolates rather than the 5 fruit centre bar? Because if you do you're the first person i've seen mention them! I've been going on about them to my family for years and they all say they don't know what i'm talking about!

teddysmum wrote: »

Beeches used to do gorgeous dark chocolate creams in a large range of flavours. I remember going to a local market stall, selling loose chocolates (long gone) and buying a whole box (shoe box size) at a discounted price. The only ones I've seen in recent years are tiny boxes of one flavour ie orange or strawberry and not very tasty..

On the journey back from Scotland this year I bought a box of lemon cream chocolates which may have been Beeches. :undecided I love lemon and also lime filled cream chocolates and i've discovered that Amazon sell Beeches lime creams (and various other flavours) so i'm definitely going to give them a try. Dagnammit they're unavailable at the moment.

MoneyMission2015

20aday wrote: »

I never really forgave Cadbury for removing the Coffee Cream from their tins a few years ago; the Coffee Escape that made a reappearance last year is "OK" but not a patch on it.

In terms of Thornton's the only chocolates I ever liked from them was the Viennese Truffles but even they aren't what they used to be.
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Wow, I hardly ever come across anybody else who likes the coffee sweets and I was also gutted when the coffee creams were removed from Cadbury's Roses. Have you tried the Thorntons Coffee Creams though? They're yummy & come in those little bags that are always on 2 bags for £5. Nobody else in my house likes coffee sweets so I get to eat them all to myself :j