Not so quality street

SnowTiger

Abbafan1972 wrote: »

We were just on about Cadburys Roses tins reducing in size and hubby found an old tin in the shed from 2003 (the BB date was 04/2004) and the weight of the tin was 1.8kg inc wraps.

Shocking!

This is a yearly moan.

I think those large tins cost £9.99 each back then, sometimes discounted to £7.99.

Tesco was selling 729g tubs for £4 recently.

And I saw two tubs of Quality Street advertised for £6 a few days ago.

According to this inflation calculator:

£9.99 in 2003 is £14.52 in today's money;
£7.99 in 2003 is £11.61 in today's money;
£5 in 2003 is £7.27 in today's money.

force_ten

SnowTiger wrote: »

This is a yearly moan.

I think those large tins cost £9.99 each back then, sometimes discounted to £7.99.

Tesco was selling 729g tubs for £4 recently.

And I saw two tubs of Quality Street advertised for £6 a few days ago.

According to this inflation calculator:

£9.99 in 2003 is £14.52 in today's money;
£7.99 in 2003 is £11.61 in today's money;
£5 in 2003 is £7.27 in today's money.

good to see somebody can see beyond the weight on the tin

so your £9.99 in 2003 is £14.52 in today's money and that will buy three of the £4.00 tubs which will be more chocolates than you got in 2003 and some change

sounds like a bargain to me

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The tins don't half stink compared to the Roses tubs.

My co-op were trying to sell 2 tubs of roses for £9, :eek: don't know about QS prices but that smell really was enough to pass.

lidlest

nickcc wrote: »

Milk tray no longer has the Turkish delight, my Wife's most upset.

Me too - it's a travesty!

20aday

DD265 wrote: »

We had a box of Quality Street... 1 green triangle, 1 purple one, 2 toffee pennies... dreadful

Also the Milk Tray selection this year has the weirdest chocolate in it...

A milk chocolate shell containing an apple-flavoured white chocolate truffle with cinnamon flavoured crunchy bits.

Admittedly the only other one I didn't eat was the Strawberry Temptation so I probably did quite well. :rotfl:

I bought my Mum some Milk Tray for Christmas and I admittedly quite liked the Apple Crunch sweet.

I did make the mistake of eating a Strawberry Temptation... was like swigging from a bottle of Calpol :eek:.

I am surprised Mondelez have removed the "Eastern Delight" sweet from Milk Tray. Given that worldwide supplies of Cocoa are reportedly running shorter (poor harvest and greater demand from the Far East) I'd have thought less chocolate with sweeter, more sugary fillings would've been more "economical".

In terms of tins getting smaller each year I did spot Sainsbury's selling a tin of Quality Street for around 1Kg and that was £8 I think.

teddysmum

Abbafan1972 wrote: »

We were just on about Cadburys Roses tins reducing in size and hubby found an old tin in the shed from 2003 (the BB date was 04/2004) and the weight of the tin was 1.8kg inc wraps.

Shocking!

This article shows Quality Street containers over the years. I remember when the tins were large enough to take a large deep cake .


http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3362889/Never-mind-quality-feel-size-Picture-shows-tins-Christmas-favourite-Quality-Street-shrunk-THREE-times-1998.html

force_ten

teddysmum wrote: »

This article shows Quality Street containers over the years. I remember when the tins were large enough to take a large deep cake .


http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3362889/Never-mind-quality-feel-size-Picture-shows-tins-Christmas-favourite-Quality-Street-shrunk-THREE-times-1998.html

Again not a true reflection of the story

Nestl!, which owns the British confectionary brand, have defended their festive tins saying the picture is an unfair comparison as a larger 1.3kg tub is still on sale.

so you can buy a small tin for £4.00 or you can buy a bigger tin for more money

you can go into the supermarket and buy a standard tin of beans or you can buy a smaller tin for less money, but would you go in and buy the smaller tin and then go on the internet and say ooh look my tin of beans has shrunk

SnowTiger

Shocking!

duchy

teddysmum wrote: »

Oh yes, and I adored the fudge and mallow diamond in Black Magic.

That was my favourite too

westy22 wrote: »

Thorntons still make the best Coffee Creams though.

Paynes made incredible coffee creams

Did anyone else spot the size of the Quality Street tin Trixie had in Call the Midwife last night ?

20aday

SnowTiger wrote: »

Shocking!

They must be wrapped in 24 carat gold or something haha :rotfl: