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Do you consider Celebrations and Heroes as classic Christmas chocolates

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MySillyCrab · 22/12/2025 16:44

Can you settle a debate, do you consider Celebrations and Heroes classic Christmas chocs?

I don’t , only Roses and Quality Street are imo

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Happyjoe · 22/12/2025 17:38

I bought a tin of not-so-quality street this year and cheekily opened them. Vile. Absolutely nothing like when I was a child, we only had roses or QS to chose from.

BauhausOfEliott · 22/12/2025 17:37

No, I'm old school and Christmas is Quality Street and Roses. Celebrations and Heroes are still, in my eyes, a newfangled invention whereas Quality Street and Roses are institutions from my childhood.

We always used to have a massive tin of Quality Street at Christmas, usually bought by my grandparents, for people to graze from. But my siblings and I would also get our own 'special' box of chocolates each as presents, and when I was very little I thought my box of Black Magic was the most grown-up and glamorous thing in the entire world.

HelenaWilson · 22/12/2025 17:29

My DM used to love fruit jellies that had a liquid centre (can't remember what they were called)

Newberry Fruits I think.

Quality Street always in my family. They'd come out in time for the Queen (and I bet she only had QS or Roses at Christmas.)

But absolutely agree they ruined QS when they took away the foil wrappers. The purple one and the green triangle and all the rest were part of the experience.

ReignOfError · 22/12/2025 17:27

Roses and Quality Street are the chocolates of my childhood. They were horrid then, and I assume they still are.

Christmas chocolates for me (and it’s the only time I eat them) are Elizabeth Shaw mint crisps.

Edited because my predictive text is insane.

greenwithglee · 22/12/2025 17:22

APatternGrammar · 22/12/2025 17:18

Only correct answer (excluding chocolate orange as it’s in a different category)

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yeah as one of your five a day it doesnt count here

OttersMayHaveShifted · 22/12/2025 17:22

smallglassbottle · 22/12/2025 16:47

They're all disgusting palm oil laden slop.

Agreed.

MrsDoomesPattersen · 22/12/2025 17:20

Oh and terrys chocolate orange

MrsDoomesPattersen · 22/12/2025 17:20

Absolutely not

roses after eights matchmakers and quality street only

APatternGrammar · 22/12/2025 17:18

Dominoeffecter · 22/12/2025 16:45

No, only Roses and Quality street

Only correct answer (excluding chocolate orange as it’s in a different category)

greenwithglee · 22/12/2025 17:18

Id say roses and quality streets are the classics, but poor imitations of what they once were, so just crack on and buy whatever now. If they were the quality street of old then I'd say they were a christmas must.

BernadetteJune · 22/12/2025 17:17

Bring back Cadbury's Milk Tray - I mean proper Milk Tray (with the lime barrel) like we had in the 70's.

Graciously · 22/12/2025 17:17

all nouveau rubbish. I’d like a good box of Carousel or a box of Weekend

Minjou · 22/12/2025 17:14

At least heroes and celebrations are edible. Roses and quality street are fucking disgusting these days.

NotDarkGothicMama · 22/12/2025 17:13

No, they're newfangled chocolates. Roses and Quality Street are the classics, maybe After Eights if you're feeling posh. Terry's chocolate orange goes in the stockings. Milk Tray is for Mother's Day.

Disclaimer: we have none of the above, being solidly snobby and going for Hotel Chocolat.

Sahara123 · 22/12/2025 17:13

To be honest I’ve never really understood the buying of lots of chocolate at Christmas, we never did when I was a child, and I don’t really now. We’d rather leave room for all the other Christmas yummy things I make! The only exception really is I used to buy myself a box of after eights to keep in the fridge just for me! This thread has reminded me I’ve not even done that this year !

zipadeedodah · 22/12/2025 17:13

smallglassbottle · 22/12/2025 16:47

They're all disgusting palm oil laden slop.

This

Cinnamontruffles · 22/12/2025 17:12

I remember one year (80s or early 90s?) getting an amazing box of Cadbury chocolate I think they were called inspirations. I kept the box for years but I think they were discontinued quite quickly

Numberblocky · 22/12/2025 17:08

I always had Rose's and Terry's Chocolate Orange growing up. But (sounding about a million years old here), they just don't taste the same as they used to, so I don't even want those anymore!

TheIceBear · 22/12/2025 17:07

They aren’t even chocolate anymore they don’t contain enough cacao to be classed as such but yes I associate them with Christmas

HoorayHettie · 22/12/2025 17:07

In our family we have

Bendicks Mint Collection (obligatory at the end of Christmas Dinner)

Roses

Quality Street

Terry's Chocolate Orange

Lindt pick & mix (my favourites)

My DM used to love fruit jellies that had a liquid centre (can't remember what they were called) & DF loved liquorice allsorts and was delighted to be given a Bertie Bassett jar one year!

ChubbyPuffling · 22/12/2025 17:06

We tried the M&S Big mix one this year - MISTAKE - just a load of sweet, tasteless gooo. Never again. (But it has given us a nice tin I supose)

KimberleyClark · 22/12/2025 16:58

TheSweetestCon · 22/12/2025 16:57

God, I miss those huge 2.5kg tins of Quality Street, with the drawings of the Victorian people on them. It was that, a bowl of nuts and those long packs of dates (maybe some Turkish delight in a wooden box too) and that was Christmas!

Edited to change the size of the tins - they were even bigger than I thought!

Edited

Maybe a tin of Danish butter cookies as well.

TheSweetestCon · 22/12/2025 16:57

God, I miss those huge 2.5kg tins of Quality Street, with the drawings of the Victorian people on them. It was that, a bowl of nuts and those long packs of dates (maybe some Turkish delight in a wooden box too) and that was Christmas!

Edited to change the size of the tins - they were even bigger than I thought!

KimberleyClark · 22/12/2025 16:54

FourForksSake · 22/12/2025 16:53

I’d love an original box of Black Magic. The height of sophistication!

“See the face you love light up with Terry’s All Gold”.

Vitriolinsanity · 22/12/2025 16:54

The minute they put Quality Street in those nonsensical wrappers they were DEAD to me. I save the sodding planet all year round. The ONE THING I cannot compromise on is Quality Street is stupid wrappers that bleed dye all over anything when they are wet.