Quality Street or Roses: that is the question!

Chocolate would never be thrown away in this house, kittylester! I have been known to eat a large box in a sitting, and then feel very guilty, and very sick. Marzipan chocolates, particularly Niederegger, and Charbonnel et Walker rose and violet creams are my favourites, Thorntons are high up there, so are Cadburys still. I really don't like so-called quality high cocoa dark chocolate, but wouldn't see it go to waste. I claim not to like American chocolate, which I think tastes somehow soapy, but have never turned it down....

Mmmm chocolate. My husband bought back 1kg of Belgium chocolate from his trip to Ypres in November. They are in the cool cupboard waiting for Christmas. I am really proud of myself that I havnt been tempted. It is only the 2nd December, so there's still time. Mmmmmm chocolate

A box of Thorntons in case my brother doesn't buy us the Fortnum and Mason ones, Elizabeth Shaw mints, chocolate brazils, Newberry Fruits.

We always end up throwing away some QS or Roses about mid January.

Agree with Jane and Anno. neither. Full of palm oil and very little chocolate and taste like lard and sugar.

But then I am Swiss, so a bit biased here ;)- it has to be real cocoabutter 70% chocolate- definitely quality over quantity.

Dark chocolate gingers are a must in this house though.

Yes, I remember 5 Boys, and Tiffin, and Callard & Bowsers Nougat + their Butterscotch. And Harvey's Bristol Cream Chocolates. But here's an even older favourite - Gray Dunnn's Blue Riband Chocolate Wafers. All long gone. Dreadful business, Christmas.

Only rose and violet creams will suffice but am happy to eat all the Roses or Quality Street if none of the above are available.

Thornton's chocs are preferable to Roses and Quality Street - in my opinion. But I agree with JaneA that the chocolates from a good local chocolatier would be best of all. Last year, on my birthday, my family gave me a box of chocolates from an artisan chocolatier. The twist was that the box was also made of chocolate! Delicious. My DiL is very partial to Monty Bojangles chocolate truffles and I am with her all the way on that. I must remember to put a box of them in my Christmas suitcase for her.

What was non-PC about Fry's Five Boys, hilda?

They were just boys with different expressions on their faces, weren't they?

I still long for Callard and Bowser's nougat.

Thorntons champagne truffles. I have asked for some for Christmas and will be disappointed if my daughters forgets (as she did last year).

I prefer Roses, they don't have any of those coconut ones that nobody but me eats.
I am the only one in our house who likes Turkish Delight, but it has to be the real stuff from Turkey, not the rose and lemon in a box.
Going back to chocolate long gone, I loved Five Boys chocolate. (perhaps not politically correct these days).

Quality Street; Ferrero Rocher and M&S Chocolate Ginger for DH!

I don't buy Cadbury chocolate since they were taken over. Before the take over there were assurances that the factory in Keynsham would be kept open within weeks of the take over the factory was closed and the production moved abroad. Its Ferrero Rocher for me all the way

By Cadbury's, * Nonnie* , do you mean the offerings of Mondelez International of New Jersey? Many of the old firms like Frys, Terry's, Rowntrees, Trebor etc seem to have gone or been absorbed, and I think its a shame. I shall never forget the heavenly smell of chocolate at Bournville but even a Mars bar doesn't seem to taste the same these days. Nestles - no, I don't admire some of their trading practices but you can say that about many big businesses.

I'd rather have a very small box of posh chocolates from the local chocolatier than a tin of either Roses or Quality St
Sorry!

Easy - don't buy the After Eights or anything else produced by Nestle! We boycott all their products on principle. Cadburys gets my vote