Quality Street or Roses: that is the question!

I do like the Purple Ones though!

OH who cares really? It's all chocolate. Of course some will get eaten first-Charbonnel and Walker, Thorntons etc. But after that the rest will go as well I'm very broad minded and not at all "brandist" about my chocolate!

Strangely enough, at this time of year we sometimes enjoy a bag of Liquorice Allsorts and/or Jelly Babys, with perhaps the odd Chocolate Orange. Whether Bassetts, Trebor and Terry's still exist I really don't know.

DH has just come back from Sainbury with a dark chocolate orange!! Must stop eating it

I've never bought a tin/box of Roses, Street or anything like that at Christmas, as it is too tempting for me. This year though, I have bought a large tin of Celebrations after giving myself a 'it's not all about you' talking to.

Well there are enough of them wanting the softies for jingle & gilly and me to share all the others

Dark chocolate orange creams for me,not interested in the rest.

they must all have falsies bad for your teeth Nonnie?

I love the nutty ones too !

I can happily sit after Xmas and (very carefully) chomp away on the toffees nonnie.

Several years ago the Observer was recommending Lidl's chocolates for dinner parties because the chocolate is really good and your posh friends won't recognise the packaging and will think you've bought something really exclusive.

Aldi are doing some nice selections for Christmas. I used to love Black Magic, but they're just not the same now.

This thread seems popular, wonder why!

gilly I was beginning to think I was the only one who shopped at Hotel Chocolat. I always buy the big slabs for my brood and they love them. For Christmas I like to get them something they wouldn't get themselves.

Interesting that most of you seem to prefer the soft ones so please send me all your spare toffees and nutty ones.

Champagne truffles from Hotel Chocolat are pure unadulterated pleasure.... and you can actually taste the Champagne

Ana I so agree about Black Magic. Not at all like they used to be. In fact, I have cancelled my regular birthday/Xmas order request with DD. I miss the marzipan and coffee ones.

Well, I threw caution to the wind and bought chocolate liqueurs in P'land

After a careful and thorough testing (which involved the whole box!) I can only say that I went back and bought six more boxes to put in my DC's hampers They were surprisingly good and didn't have the crunchy sugar inside which I've experienced in the past with 'good' brands and the chocolate was dark and lovely.

None of the above. I bought some small Quality Street green triangle bars the other day for stocking fillers and after a stressful morning I decided to raid one of them.

They were so dreadfully sweet that after couple of pieces I threw the rest away and had a good cup of tea to wash the taste from my mouth.

Dark chocolate only for me.

I don't have chocolate in the house over Christmas, but if I was forced to choose, it would be Quality Street purple hazelnut caramels, available separately.

I love chocolate - any kind, that's how I put on lots of weight in the last few years. I do think that the large boxes of quality street and Roses, are just too big and I get tired of them after a while despite liking them.
Smaller boxes are best, I also love any variety of Thorntons and M&S but Im quite happy with a bar of Cadburys. So hope Santa brings me some this year.

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!

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.

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.

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

Meeeeeee, mrsmopp. I always pick them out first.

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??

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.

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