If you have been disappointed by Quality Street or Roses this Christmas

[TheDowagerCountessofPembroke]

Can I recommend M&S Big Mix. Nice thick chocolate, shiny wrappers, toffees that will take out your fillings, coffee creams.

I wonder how many people would pay that if they used the original recipes, tins and wrappers? No idea. I suppose if it were feasible, the manufacturer would have launched it.

I’ll check out the M&S ones next Dec.

We got the John Lewis pick and mix tin too including coffee creams. Also managed to find a box of just the Maltesers celebrations at somewhere like Home Bargains so the kids were chuffed.

Thanks for the tip OP. QS and Roses are just awful but people buy them because it's Christmas and a quick cheap grab a gift throughout the year, that's their market. There is no satisfaction. The chocolates are half the size of what they used to be.

Didn't buy them, have bought for years now, instead we bought some bagged sweets - Buchanan's dark choc caramels, humbugs, fudge, sherbet lemons, soft jelly sweets and I made a big batch of tablet.

Stopped buying both a few years ago. Roses seemed to be especially poor quality. Plus we’re in America now and they’re about $25/$30…

I haven't bought these for years after realising that I didn't enjoy them and only ate them because they were there.

Nowadays if I wanted a selection of chocolates to choose from/hand round, I'd probably buy a few packs of bagged wrapped sweets or things like Lindt balls, Ferrero Rocher etc from the supermarket (I only really like toffees and fudges, not the creams or solid chocolates) and put them in a nice bowl or jar and have those instead.

Only I don't even need to do that because I always get plenty for Christmas, that I haven't even touched yet because there's also all the cakes, puddings, mince pies etc that I prefer and have a short use by date.

So I'd question why anyone buys these tubs and if they actually want to eat them or are we all being conned into thinking 'it's Christmas so we must have huge tubs of crap chocolates at arms reach at all times'. If it's the latter, just don't buy them, get something else. Plus if you look in the sales after Christmas, there's loads available reduced in price anyway.

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Coffee creams you say? Damn you! I am going to have to face Westfield!!!

Are they in a tub or a packet??

Just looked it up! I suppose I will have to go to Westfield now. Sigh.

Green and Black's organic selection box is lovely, was £6 half price at Tesco just before Christmas.

I’ve been recommending these for years however I think they’ve changed the recipe this year. Still beat the current roses and qs hands down but not as good.

They do do them all year however I try not to buy all year…

Thanks for the tip. I decided this year would be the last year I buy Quality Street - just so grotty and cheap now! The tub, the wrappers, the taste and the shapes, all cheapened. Nothing like we had as kids! Such excitement and a real treat. Now just rubbish.

They are a box rather than a tub.

You can get then delivered on Ocado.

Good idea

This!!
Quality street and Roses used to be lovely with their pretty cellophane wrappers saved and used for crafts.
Like jewels.

A lot of U.K. chocolates are shite now.
Palm oil and Vaseline taste.
I only buy Swiss chocolate now, in bars.

Not a fan of M&S chocolate tbh. What I do like are those dark chocolate truffles they do, bloody gorgeous.

There’s a Yorkshire bloke doing a review on you tube and says they taste awful now ( Quality street) and have changed completely.

Thanks for the heads up - Quality Street and Roses are indeed terrible

And in Waitrose

ECHO THIS A MILLION TIMES !

Back in the olden days the big tin of quality street was a real treat. I'd pay £20 at Christmas for a proper size tin with shiny wrappers and original recipe chocolate with no gritty palm oil.

I stopped buying Roses a few years back because they'd gone downhill badly, now it seems that QS have joined them. I'm not buying any next year I've decided.

I honestly think they should do it. Quality Street retro. Old fashioned tin, old flavours, no palm oil. I’d pay £20.

I didn’t buy one tub of chocolates this year, even the ones we had at work hung around for ages, untouched. The demise of chocolate in this country should be considered national embarrassment.

Thankfully I am going to M&S later on 😂