The big purple one

EdinaTheConfessor · 2025-12-27T14:18:12+00:00

It’s not big. It is small and round, it used to be big and oval and lovely and nutty. Why???!!!!

mamaduckbone · 28/12/2025 07:39

I agree, they are revolting this year, and seem to now mostly be the same shape. Ours also all taste vaguely orangey, probably because there are so many orange creams in the box.

HoorayHattie · 28/12/2025 07:29

I've converted to Lindt pick & mix as I'm lucky enough to live near one of their shops. There are so many lovely flavours with gorgeous coloured wrappers and you can add in mini bears and prettily wrapped neapolitans, Absolute bliss!

Orangepate · 28/12/2025 07:26

We used to look through the wrappers as children to see the colours. They are ugly now, Altho I do know that biodegradable is better.

Sweetiedarling7 · 28/12/2025 07:23

M&S Big Mix are the treat which Lack of Quality Street used to be.

HoorayHattie · 28/12/2025 07:20

But the DC's are still eating them . . . I feel sorry for the poor little blighters as they have no comparison like us and no memories of what REAL Quality Street tasted like. The current QS look and taste like fakes 😫

ZenLikeAlways · 27/12/2025 23:21

It’s nit even chocolate anymore. Gross stuff!

beadystar · 27/12/2025 23:14

Makinglists · 27/12/2025 15:24

Don't get me started on the toffee penny - horrible. Soft very mushy and no flavour. Really weird and grim. To be honest having sampled a few they all taste the same slightly orangey flavour - not a treat any more!.

Yes why have they done that? They’re my favourite. I thought our box had gone off because the toffee penny was just squish!

OonaStubbs · 27/12/2025 23:11

Why doesn't another company bring out chocolates that are as good as QS used to be, proper chocolate, in a proper tin with hundreds of sweets, wrapped in proper wrappers that crinkle?

Horrorscope · 27/12/2025 23:00

JennyWrenSeven · 27/12/2025 16:34

Just look at the way they used to be 😩

They used to be BEAUTIFUL. You’d feel joyous looking at those lovely, foil wrappers (and the tins). Now, when I see those sad, waxy, drab wrappers, my heart sinks.

catmothertes1 · 27/12/2025 17:55

RedRiverShore6 · 27/12/2025 15:40

they all look a lot smaller now

True but they also all taste vile!

Glitchymn1 · 27/12/2025 17:53

HelenaWilson · 27/12/2025 15:03

It was the end for me when they changed the wrappings. No more lovely jewel colours. Future generations will be deprived of a childhood with the green triangle, the gold penny and the purple one.

^ 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

catmothertes1 · 27/12/2025 17:52

After last year's tin being a huge disappointment,I swore to not bother this year. We were gifted a small box by MIL and it confirmed that all flavours are awful and the chocolate is terrible.

dontmalbeconme · 27/12/2025 16:58

Bought the M&S Big Mix this year. They were pretty good, much tastier than Quality Street, and sparkly wrappers too!

Dragonflytamer · 27/12/2025 16:57

A tin of quality street costs about the same now as it did the 1980s but in real terms people were paying nearer £20 in todays money. There has to be a massive reduction in volume and quality to make that work.

Dragonflytamer · 27/12/2025 16:53

There's just too much demand for cheap and nasty these days. They still sell them in massive stacks.

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EdinaTheConfessor · 27/12/2025 16:48

Who TAF has deemed me unreasonable? Please explain yourselves now

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EdinaTheConfessor · 27/12/2025 16:45

I’m glad I’m not alone. I do think they still have the vague sense of Christmas about them that other chocolates lack. But certainly not the same as yesteryear.
Does anyone else remember the cracknell? Absolute corker not seen for many a year.

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LilyCanna · 27/12/2025 16:45

Most chocolate is getting more expensive, smaller and not as nice (lower cocoa percentage) largely because of poor harvests, in particular extreme weather caused by climate change. But I don’t think if harvests are good for a few years they’ll improve the quality - it’s a one way street of lowering consumer expectations.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cz0n8eygdp7o.amp

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EdinaTheConfessor · 27/12/2025 16:42

Horrorscope · 27/12/2025 15:54

I opened a pack of Smarties this morning. I was soooooo looking forward to them but they weren’t nice at all and certainly not the lovely things I remembered (they were still crunchy but that was the only thing going for them). So I chucked them in the bin and decided to let Nestlè know what I thought — went onto their website and told them their Smarties are now a heap of shite and I’d not be buying them again.

Will probably be doing the same re: Quality Street (and suggesting that they drop the word ‘Quality’ from the name)!

And the orange one isn’t orange flavoured any more!

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JennyWrenSeven · 27/12/2025 16:34

Just look at the way they used to be 😩

pestowithwalnuts · 27/12/2025 16:17

It was the end for me when the wrappers changed.
The shiny wrappers were part of Christmas.. it was like opening a box of jewels.
Then the chocs began to change.
This year I've bought a tin of the lovely ones from marksies

Melonmango70 · 27/12/2025 16:11

MogsChristmasBoiledEgg · 27/12/2025 15:25

The green triangle also really weird tasting now, I thought ours had gone off!

And it's TINY!!

ronswansonstache · 27/12/2025 15:57

We got a tub as a gift for Xmas and the decline in chocolate quality was very obvious. Everything tasted like pound shop chocolate!

Horrorscope · 27/12/2025 15:54

I opened a pack of Smarties this morning. I was soooooo looking forward to them but they weren’t nice at all and certainly not the lovely things I remembered (they were still crunchy but that was the only thing going for them). So I chucked them in the bin and decided to let Nestlè know what I thought — went onto their website and told them their Smarties are now a heap of shite and I’d not be buying them again.

Will probably be doing the same re: Quality Street (and suggesting that they drop the word ‘Quality’ from the name)!

bettyboo9 · 27/12/2025 15:54

Completely agree, I won’t be going there again