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Roses or Quality Street?

(129 Posts)
Starblaze Mon 16-Dec-19 17:23:37

Lol

Witzend Mon 16-Dec-19 18:54:23

I like a lot of QS and Roses!
Not the coffee or toffee ones, though.

So many boxes of more 'quality' chocs nowadays contain white chocolate, so I never buy them. To me, white chocolate is the work of the ?.

Dh invariably buys me a box of Black Magic, which I still enjoy.

HootyMcOwlface Mon 16-Dec-19 18:52:11

Not keen on either of these since they did away with my favourite coffee cream! No one else liked them so they were all mine! ?

PamelaJ1 Mon 16-Dec-19 18:48:48

Neither, my calories have to be quality.

Daddima Mon 16-Dec-19 18:46:58

notanan I found a panettone in the cupboard ( a gift from last year). It made a lovely bread and butter pudding, which I scoffed all on my own!

ginny Mon 16-Dec-19 18:45:29

Neither, I like decent chocolate.

Wheniwasyourage Mon 16-Dec-19 18:43:31

Neither - Roses are not the same as they used to be since Cadbury went American, and Quality Street is Nestlé and so I'm boycotting them. If someone gave me a box of Thornton's now, or Celebrations...

CoolioC Mon 16-Dec-19 18:38:15

Urnstongram
Dreadful things happened to Cadbury. Now made in Poland and Romania not sure if UK anymore. The Cadbury family would probably turn in their graves. Decline since 2010.

As she heaves another choc into mouth.

notanan2 Mon 16-Dec-19 18:14:13

Panettone is the only edible item that has a longer chain of regifting before consumption than quality street

notanan2 Mon 16-Dec-19 18:12:49

They just get regifted until someone gets desperate and opens them grin

IMO every christmas box of quality street has been on average to 3 homes before it gets opened
(In my totally scientific opinion)

Urmstongran Mon 16-Dec-19 18:11:09

Along with copies of the Christmas editions of the TV & Radio times? (not)

I used to like Roses best but Cadbury chocolate has changed in taste (creme eggs anyone - no thanks) and is pretty yuk now.

Did the Americans buy it?

notanan2 Mon 16-Dec-19 18:10:33

Yuck neither!
Aldi and lidl do nice fancy chocs
I also like Thorntons and choc brazil nuts and any turkish delights.
IMO hotel chocolate is empirers new clothes: I dont get it just tastes like bog standard chocolate.

Harris27 Mon 16-Dec-19 18:09:11

Quality street is my favourite but I do like roses as well.

GrannyGravy13 Mon 16-Dec-19 18:06:38

Hotel Chocolate chocolates here for me, but I had a panic on Friday and bought a small pack of both Roses and Quality Street tchblush

ayse Mon 16-Dec-19 18:04:25

Told DH I prefer Hotel Chocolate dark, of course, in a small box to a great big box of Thornton’s or similar.

Can’t beat a good dark chocolate

ayse Mon 16-Dec-19 18:02:39

I loved Terry’s and their beautiful caskets and boxes. Very good chocolates as well. Chartreuse cream, Benedictine cream just to mention a couple and wonderful shapes as well. Dad used to buy Mum a box every Christmas and I was allowed one, so it took a long time to choose.

OP, if I was buying it would be Quality Street as they are selling bigger tins, made of tin, not plastic

jura2 Mon 16-Dec-19 17:58:28

neither - too much sugar and - give me real 70% dark chocolate, please.

EllanVannin Mon 16-Dec-19 17:57:40

They smell when you take the lid off---and not nice either ! Yuk.

No nice chocolate unless it's hand-made like Hotel chocolates.

Who remembers the Terry's 1767 chocs in the most beautiful boxes with little drawers ?

elastic Mon 16-Dec-19 17:57:39

I agree with craftyone. I am in the process of choosing some good quality choccies.

Although, if anyone offered......

Sara65 Mon 16-Dec-19 17:57:03

I’m another one for green triangles, but honestly, apart from coffee creams, and the strawberry ones, I’ll eat any of them.

CoolioC Mon 16-Dec-19 17:48:54

Kittylester
Do not suck the chocolate off the Brazil nuts then offer them on Christmas Day with the cheese, it’s against the law!

CoolioC Mon 16-Dec-19 17:45:54

Roses for me but they don’t taste the same anymore since they have made them round to suit the American market. I also vowed not to eat cheap chocolate like Cadbury’s and others that used palm oil. Didn’t last long just no willpower.

Spookily enough, I note that Cadbury’s chocolate from Australia and NZ do not contain palm oil ie their coconut rough which is absolutely delicious.

Sussexborn Mon 16-Dec-19 17:45:40

The nutty Roses and toffee Quality Street.
The last one left in the box is always nougat!

tanith Mon 16-Dec-19 17:38:37

Quality Street for me but I’m not buying any, hope someone buys me some lol.

rafichagran Mon 16-Dec-19 17:38:00

Neither, just dont like them anymore. Love M&S chocolates

Smileless2012 Mon 16-Dec-19 17:37:24

Quality Street for the green triangles.