Quality Street chocolates in the tin,do you buy them?

Not any more, Quality Street has continued to go downhill since Nestle took over. First with tweaking the ingredients so tasted less chocolate and more sweet and then shrinking etc.

We used to love them and they were a real treat, but since the chocolate changed haven’t bought them for years. Don’t miss them one bit!

Never.

I haven’t bought QS for ages, or Roses either. However we usually have plenty of chocs anyway. I nearly always get Black Magic and a big box of Maltesers 😋 from dh, plus there will always be others. Dd2 usually gives us some particularly nice ones from Friars of Keswick.

infoman

Plastic the curse of the 20th and 21st centuries.
John Lewis have quality street in tins where you can have all your favourites in one tin,it costs FIFTEEN quid though.

Tesco have mixed quality street chocolates in a tin for 4.50p down from 6.00p

I tend to take my tin back to John Lewis and fill it to the brim with my favourite selection of quality street ( especially the coffee ones)!

No

I buy the M and S Big Mix chocolates, they are much nicer and in a cardboard carton which can be recycled.

We always had a tin of QS as a child and I loved emptying them all out on the carpet and sorting them into lines of the same kind and counting how many of each variety there were, a strange child maybe?

We never had Quality Street or similar, but in 1975, the farmer my DH worked for, at Christmas time, gave all his ‘men’ a fresh turkey and a tin of QS for their children.

Shades of the feudal squire, but much appreciated.

The ‘huge’ tin of QS was real bounty, we had never had one before.

Kololo1

I have started buying The Big Mix from M&S. Delicious chocolate and fillings including coffee. Glittery paper and, I think, good value.

The big mix chocolates are divine. I bought the refill pack just as a tester before I could test any the family had been round and scoffed the lot

We have already demolished Quality Street, Heroes and Celebrations. Now hitting Thornton’s Continental. We have no pride 😉

I much prefer Roses to Quality Street - the only Quality Street l like is the fudge. All the plastic boxes only seem to have between ¼ and ⅓ the amount of sweets in them compared with the tins of twenty years ago.

Have only every cared for dark chocolate so not tempted by QS, but used to help a friend by keeping her chocolates at my house to be given over on christmas eve. She knew I wouldnt eat them and couldnt trust herself to leave them alone!

I like to think that my palate has become more sophisticated over the past few years.😂😂
IMO they no longer pass the calorie test. If I’m eating unnecessary calories then it has to be worth it!

No. I'm not a fan of palm oil and lots of 'chocolates' actually have very little actual real chocolate in them these days and are full of cheap chemical ingredients instead. Not for me.

Cadbury's chocolate went downhill the moment it was taken over.

I've bought Marks and Spencer's Big Mix this year, haven't opened them yet, so I can't say what they are like.

As Grannyg and KittyLester said, if you have a decent John Lewis near you, look at their choc and sweets dept?!

We visited Cambridge the other week (fantastic free museum!) and in the town centre JL store were delighted to find a wonderful Qual Street pick & mix stand, if you like the green and purple ones (etc) just fill your boots (well, bag, box or plastic tin).

As for the "chocolates are smaller" moan, yes, they have been for many years now! A Mars Bar used to be a massive thing, now it's more like a match-stick, and KitKats haven't tasted right for 20 years or so??? I think it's something to do with the price of cocoa, at a guess . . . .maybe with global warming we could grow it here in future . . . .

We bought a tin ( plastic tub) ate them greedily. Agreed they just weren’t any good anymore. Papery wrappers not sparkly shiny ones. Not enough toffee or fudge. So they are finally done for us and we will probably stick to celebrations and mixed toffees.

Cadburys chocolate has the bare minimum of ingredients to call itself chocolate. It’s more accurately described as chocolate flavoured.

silverlining, it's why the name is Dairy Milk, not Dairy Milk Chocolate, you will note.
I think that it does not, in fact, contain enough cocoa to be able to use the word " chocolate" on the wrapper.

Used to enjoy these, not now. They don’t taste nice, guess it’s the palm oil.

You must be the expert chocolatelovinggran.
I like chocolate but only eat dark chocolate. Exception is Ferrero rocher ….at Christmas. 🎅

I have a Major Quality and Miss Sweetly tin. I also have the fancy dress pattern which my Mum used to make costumes for herself and Dad in the days that adults had fun and dressed up. Mum couldn't find any fabric to make the Miss Sweetly dress so contacted Quality Street. They sent her a whole roll of the purple wrapping used for the sweets to make her dress. She must have crinkled all day.