To be shocked at the size of the Celebrations 'tins' this year?

hairymotherplucker · 2024-12-01T15:29:11+00:00

Are they saving plastic or chocolates?

Rosscameasdoody · 01/12/2024 20:27

Everything’s getting smaller and more expensive though isn’t it ? Mars bars are smaller, crisp packets are smaller, and I’ve only recently noticed that a few brands of block butter have become more expensive and the weight has been cut from 250g to 200g. New but less than imaginitive ways to rip off the consumer.

coronafiona · 01/12/2024 20:21

I'm intrigued- for those who don't like the chocolates these days what do you buy instead?

cookiebee · 01/12/2024 20:04

Problem is we all continue to buy them, they are not only hugely reduced in size, but they have altered incredibly as well. Roses for example are all the same square shape now, you may as well be eating the same sweet each time, also quality street are gradually losing their identity in the same way. Hero’s shapes are becoming more uniform and uninteresting, celebrations still retain their foil wrappers and individual shapes for now which is good. But like all of these things, if we keep buying them, they will keep making them and taking the piss with making them smaller and substandard to how they once were, nostalgia keeps us buying them, I’m part of the problem, though I have definitely stopped buying roses, the others I will stop if they get any worse, but I’m only one person, we need to pursued everyone to vote with their buying habits.

Words · 01/12/2024 17:48

That's true @cardibach

cardibach · 01/12/2024 17:07

Screenthis · 01/12/2024 15:42

Chocolate has become inedible now, I haven't found a brand that has been taken over by an American company that has either not suffered from shrinkflation or a deprivation of flavour or ingredients.

Mainland European brands are still ok. Aldi and Lidl are a good source of budget versions.

MrsClatterbuck · 01/12/2024 17:00

iPreferBooks · 01/12/2024 15:56

YANBU. Sometimes I wonder how small can you go? Surely at some point there will be nothing else left to shrink.

We've been decluttering my gran's house recently as she passed away. But in the garage we found one of those big classic Quality Street tins, and now I'm tempted to see how many modern tubs it takes to fill up the classic tin!

Same here when clearing my dm house. Two Quality Street tins. One large and a less deep one. I used the large one to bring the ingredients to school for my cookery class early seventies.

Createausername1970 · 01/12/2024 16:47

Screenthis · 01/12/2024 15:59

Yes you used to be able to use them as cake tins, no chance these days.

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Yes, exactly why I still use the battered deep Roses tin.

I do have a plastic tub as well from about 5 years ago which is a decent size too. The tub I have on the side from this year, yet to open, might do for pancakes 😂

BeachHutsAndDeckchairs · 01/12/2024 16:47

2KG boxes of heroes on Amazon for £22

jezlifecoach · 01/12/2024 16:29

We don’t bother anymore. My mom just buys an empty Christmas tin and fills it with things like Freddos, the strawberry cremes, etc.

LadyGabriella · 01/12/2024 16:27

iPreferBooks · 01/12/2024 15:56

YANBU. Sometimes I wonder how small can you go? Surely at some point there will be nothing else left to shrink.

We've been decluttering my gran's house recently as she passed away. But in the garage we found one of those big classic Quality Street tins, and now I'm tempted to see how many modern tubs it takes to fill up the classic tin!

Do it and let us know. Although maybe go for celebrations instead cause quality street are disgusting now.

LadyGabriella · 01/12/2024 16:25

So thin they could fit through a letterbox. Refuse to buy them this year.

rosydreams · 01/12/2024 16:21

i think it was 750 grs for £7 which seems like a reasonable price considering recent inflation

Screenthis · 01/12/2024 16:19

rosydreams · 01/12/2024 16:16

you can buy bigger tins at farmfoods at the mo

So you can buy tins in the size they used to come in at an inflated price?

Manypaws · 01/12/2024 16:17

@FergussSingsTheBlues 🤣🤣

FergussSingsTheBlues · 01/12/2024 16:17

They’re crap and should be renamed commiserations IMO

rosydreams · 01/12/2024 16:16

you can buy bigger tins at farmfoods at the mo

To be shocked at the size of the Celebrations 'tins' this year?

Finnulafishface · 01/12/2024 16:16

People need to actually stop buying these and not just complain but it’s all too easy when they’re under a fiver to throw them in the trolley!

TwoLeftSocksWithHoles · 01/12/2024 16:15

WhitbyBee · 01/12/2024 15:55

But they are £3.95 to buy
A tin of quality street was more than that in the late 70s/ 1980s

Quality Street (900g) at Eurotunnel Duty Free Shop in France - 32 euros 😱

Quality Street (600g) at Tesco - £6 (£4.95 with club card)

Words · 01/12/2024 16:12

Buy a smaller quantity of decent chocolate instead?

CrispyK · 01/12/2024 16:11

I was sorting some stuff in the garage & came across a celebrations tub from 2014. Not that long ago in the grand scheme of things but the tub was almost twice as deep! You get about 300g less now.

Manypaws · 01/12/2024 16:10

Perhaps that's why I have managed to scoff a full box

shockeditellyou · 01/12/2024 16:10

All of the Christmas chocolate tubs look cheap and nasty now.

Sia8899 · 01/12/2024 16:09

Saw a video from a chocolate brand (might’ve been nestle?) about how weather and fungus has affected the cocoa harvest so the price of the beans has gone way up. I guess lowering the amount of chocolate/chocolates in products means they aren’t ridiculous prices for customers

KimberleyClark · 01/12/2024 16:08

We never bother with Quality Street/Roses/Celebrations/Miniature Heroes. I’d much rather get a big box of proper chocolates.

BeTealUser · 01/12/2024 16:07

The tubs are smaller in size but I don’t think they have reduced the contents at all - although happy to be proven wrong.

Smaller packaging is more efficient for transporting.