Quality Street shock

Just thinking how most things that are said to be bad for us have shrunk.....whilst some of us (yours truly) have gotten a little larger! Merry Christmas gransnetters, hope all your hocolates are delicious whatever they are ?

Apart from the shrinking tins, the quality and content of both Roses and Quality Street have plummeted and I just don'y buy them any more. Roses are not even the same shape as they were and the chocolate tastes nasty.

I am rather stingy so I so I try to combine taste and economy. I buy Lindt bars, Fruit and Nut bars (under protest as the DH likes it and make my own Florentines which is a faff but they are beyond lovely. Ferrero Roche are still good for now.

In the New Year I am going to have a go at making my own cholcolate from scratch if it can be done in a kitchen.

No worries Nonnie I can be a grumpy old wotsit at times.?

I splashed out on the tin, because I've always loved the designs. But who is going to eat the pesky chocolates?

What upsets me is the gradual disappearance of Coffee Creme from every brand of chocolate box. It has always been my favorite.

.......and they've all shrunk.......and the purple one (my personal favourite with the hazelnut in liquid caramel.....and the chocolate is insipid........and the PLASTIC 'tin' seemed half empty. Lindt 'seashells' for me too especially the seahorses!!

Oh yes anitampl I remember those, they were lovely. I used to like the tins or Quality Street and Roses as I used the tins for storing home baked cakes and biscuits. You can hardly get anything into the plastic tubs they produce now.

NO GREEN TRIANGLES ???????

What is the world coming to ?

And while we're on the subject has anyone noticed the tubs of cheese footballs has shrunk ? But not the price !!!! Grrrrrr

Chocolates aren't what they used to be. Who remembers the bars of Milk Tray Chocolates from days gone by? They had 8 centres - strawberry, hazelnut, Turkish delight and soft caramel, amongst other they were a real treat at the cinema.

Well now I'm remembering the cracknell one that was in red paper and you took off the paper to look through it and all the aunties and uncles were red!

Wot? No green triangles? Right, that's it - I'm off to the Ambassadors Cocktail Reception to snaffle as many Ferraro Rocher as I can cram into my handbag!

Sorry ann didn't mean to spoil the fun just every time I hear anything about them I do tend to rant! I know so much about them and I suppose just want everyone else to join me in by boycott because I feel so passionate about it.

I've not bought the tins this year. I'm so disappointed with how they've shrunk. This year we've got Ferraro Roche, Matchmakers and Maltesers instead.

I prefer Roses to Quality at anyday ,even they have reduced in size
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I do appreciate the thoughts behind the Nestle scandal but please, please can we have one light hearted thread not politicised.

Oh no! I’d better open my box and check

Wouldn’t want any nasty surprises on Christmas Day.

We gave up all the 'big tub' (not so big these days ) buying of chocolate quite a few years ago. We now just buy smaller quantities of much nicer ones ( think the seashell ones and lindt !)

I know we don’t buy it anymore so disappointed. Yep it’s hotel chocolat, got to have a good choccy fix.
Though I did get some chocs in Lidl last year and they were lovely so got some this year too.

Ah the blessed Hotel Chocolate is for Xmas Day - so in the run up I thought a few QS would be nice - just a pochette (1) not a whole tin - DH takes nothing into the body that has no business being there.

Blimey. Back to Hotel Chocolat. The sacrifices I make!!

Gosh! I've never heard about any of that. Well...it's certainly opened my eyes about what these companies get up to. Fancy selling water back... (shakes head)

If a trifle mildly

nonnie point well made

Then boycott all Nestle products, we do.

Terrible company which takes water from poor villages in Pakistan and then sells it back to them. Not only the poor, does the same in California where there is drought. Also treat some of their staff appallingly.

Have you all forgotten the baby mild scandal?

Teetime, maybe OH got to the box first?