Quality Street or Roses: that is the question!

I'm off to Aldi tomorrow, mrsmopp

I feel a tasting session coming on.

So many centres seem to be of the truffle type these days which does make them taste very samey. I used to love the Black Magic orange flavoured fillings, the coffee ones and the marzipan. Now all truffly...

I would say it's more about personal taste, granjura. Aldi does have some very tasty offerings, mrsmopp. And at incredible prices. I got all my Easter eggs there this year and they were very well received. In fact, I might be off there tomorrow myself, just to remind myself which range I liked best, you understand.

Bellarom chocolate from Lidl is delicious. I am not allowing myself to buy any at the moment (saving myself for Christmas).

Maggiemaybe- perhaps both ;). Is it really totally unreasonable to expect chocolates to contain .... chocolate and cocoa butter and sugar- rather than palm oil, artificial flavourings, emulsifiers and chemicals?

Ingredients of "Fin Carre" dark chocolate from Lidl, bought yesterday:-

50% cocoa solids minimum

Sugar
Cocoa Mass
Cocoa Butter
Emulsifier
Sunflower Lecithins
Natural Vanilla Flacouring

No mention of palm oil, artificial flavourings, or chemicals

You should try Lidl's chocolate, Granjura I think you would find it far better than you expect.

Quote from www.misi.se/hands-on-guides/misi-test-panel-chocolate-part-two-dark-chocolate/

"LIDL/BELLAROM: Dark Chocolate, 72%, 8 SEK
SCENT: quite sweet but a nice smell
SOUND: quite good sound and cracking
TASTE: It tasted bitter – much like cocoa but creamy anyway. One member thought the chocolate was too dark for her taste.
AFTERTASTE: quite a long aftertaste"

Quote from www.ciao.co.uk/Bellarom_chocolate__Review_5745417 (This was in 2007 but I assume the quality is the same)

"I am not a Lidl fan although some of their continental meats and cheeses are really good value. However I did ask someone to pick me up some of their Bellarom Deluxe Finest Alpine Chocolate one day to test !!!
She bought me 5x 40g bars wrapped together in cellophane for under £1. The little bars show snow covered mountains with green fields at the base of the mountains and has a focal point depicting three chuncks of the Bellarom milk chocolate. All very nice you say but what does it taste like?
The ingredients are sugar,cocoa butter, cream powder 14%, whole milk powder 13%, cocoa mass,flavouring,vanillin. This milk chocolate contains cocoa solids 34% minimum and milk solids 27%.
ALL VERY NICE BUT WHAT DOES IT TASTE LIKE ?
This is a first class smooth tasting, creamy chocolate that comes in milk, nut, and plain variety."

Thanks Elegran, will do. I did say earlier in the thread I'd be going to the opening of the new Lidl near us tomorrow. I am open minded, and as said, personal choice and taste- but I do expect chocolate to contain at least some chocolate and cocoa butter, rather than tons to palm oil and chemicals. Thanks, will try.

Very interesting! We shall be conducting a lightning reconnaissance of the lower slopes of Lidl's chocolate department to check out some of your recommendations. It may take some time!

Have fun- will be doing the same- about 600 miles away. Will be thinking of you- lol. And good quality chocolate (that actually does contain.... chocolate) is a great depression cure. Enjoy.

Lidl and Aldi - both great value for chocolate but in my opinion, Lidl has wider variety and higher quality.

I love chocolate, but my favourite sweet treat would be a box of Maple Brazils - although they're getting harder and harder to find these days.

Thornton's chocs have always been lovely but in my neck of the woods a lot of the discount shops are selling Thorntons at reduced prices.I hope this isn't a sign that the company is in trouble.

Thornton's chocs have always been lovely but in my neck of the woods a lot of the discount shops are selling Thorntons at reduced prices.I hope this isn't a sign that the company is in trouble.

Thornton's chocs have always been lovely but in my neck of the woods a lot of the discount shops are selling Thorntons at reduced prices.I hope this isn't a sign that the company is in trouble.

Thornton's chocs have always been lovely but in my neck of the woods a lot of the discount shops are selling Thorntons at reduced prices.I hope this isn't a sign that the company is in trouble.

Sorry computors got a mind of it's own

If something is worth saying then it's worth saying many times granjo!

Thorntons did a Summer Chocolate assortment this year, with lovely centres, orange, raspberry, lemon, etc.Don't know if you can still get them though.I think Roses over Quality St. papaoscar as it's a bit like my name.Perhaps you will do some research for us and report back with a list of what we should go and buy.

What put me off Quality Street was that we were always left at the end with lots of the big round flat toffees that nobody wanted. About as big as the old half crown and quite thick. Who is going to eat them when there are chocolates in the tin??

Meeeeeee, mrsmopp. I always pick them out first.

Chocolate tester. What a heavenly job that would be, * Rosesarered * !

I'm not very enthusiastic about chocolate and rarely eat it. If I do I don't want what passes for chocolate in the UK with its paucity of cocoa solids. Give me proper chocolate every time – which, in my case, is about once every two or three years.

Charbonnel et Walker Sea Salt Caramel Truffles - a snip at £23 . I don't ask for much., although I am rather partial to a bar of Green and Black's Butterscotch chocolate.

When I was a child an aunt gave me a whole tin of those round flat Quality Street toffees as a Christmas present, Mrs Mopp. I remember being disappointed, as I didn't actually like toffees, but of course I ate them - eventually!