Help me settle an argument re: Christmas chocolates

[Puppymonkeybaby1]

We're going to my parents for Christmas and splitting the food shop between us (4 people plus baby) I've been tasked with getting puddings and sweets.

I said, in passing, something about a tub of Quality Street and DH has kicked up a fuss because 'they're rank'. They're not, he just doesn't like them.

AIBU to say that the only true Christmas sweets are either Roses or Quality Street and these new kids on the block (Heroes & Celebrations) are just pretenders to the throne??

Liqueur even

I don’t get the Lindor love, at all.

They are like balls of wax. Shiny, waxy shit. [vom]

Would def eat QS over Lindor Wax Balls

Had a big box of Hotel Chocolat recently which was The Dogs. Also Harrods Old English orange creams.

I totally agree taffeta. They used to be lovely, not sure if they changed the recipe but to me they’re just so oily and slimy. The coconut ones in particular just make me think of biting into a lump of hard, sugary, coconut oil.

The new salty caramel matchmakers are absolutely divine.

Quality street were THE Christmas chocolates until they started dicking around removing the good ones and replacing them with randoms.

I try not to buy cadbury's any more - when they start paying tax properly and stop fucking around with the recipes I'll buy it again!

These are lovely and come in small or large. You do need to make sure your friends and family are civilised and don't double dip though!

www.hotelchocolat.com/uk/large-chocolate-dipping-adventure.html?keyword=&adtype=pla_with_promotion&product_id=large-chocolate-dipping-adventure&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIqbrP8uz31wIVUJkbCh3s1ge1EAQYAiABEgIWqPD_BwE&gclsrc=aw.ds

The new salty caramel matchmakers are absolutely divine.

Quality street were THE Christmas chocolates until they started dicking around removing the good ones and replacing them with randoms.

I try not to buy cadbury's any more - when they start paying tax properly and stop fucking around with the recipes I'll buy it again!

Yeah, legal tax avoidance is way worse than causing unnecessary baby deaths.

We use a plastic QS tub as a biscuit tin [shrug]

It's not about how lovely they are (though QS toffees are loooooovely) but how many you can fit in your face while you're watching sitcom repeats and sniggering at your dad snoring with his paper hat all wonky. They're for scoffing, not savouring.

For savouring, for me, it has to be violet creams (any decent brand, though they are rocking horse droppings alas) or Charbonnel truffles. I used to work for Charbonnel in the holidays when I was a student, and the rule was you had to have tried everything so you could make comments/recommendations to customers. So, yeah. Their truffles. Spend the best part of an hour quietly eating one and then swaying on the alcohol fumes.

I get the cake stand out at christmas and fill it with little chocolates. Last year it was a mix of posh chocs (!) like lindor and a big bag of sainsburys basics wrapped chocolates which cost about £2 (haven't looked to see if they are doing them this year). It looked really festive. And as inevitably we are gifted chocolates here and there we add them to the pile.

I think I need to go sugar free in 2018 - my addiction is out of control

Homemade dark chocolate truffles here. Most shop bought chocs are way too sweet and oily for me.

Nestle are bastards. No to quality street or after eights.

However Sainsburys chocolates were lovely last year so will prob get them again.

And there is a shop in Leamington Spa that sells liquer bottle chocs. It's called something like You Fat Cow.

Even if you are super healthy or you think they taste like flavoured grease etc. (I still like QS and Roses even though they aren’t as good any more) you have to have trashy Christmas chocolates in the house.

That is because we need to keep on sticking it to Oliver Cromwell and his joyless puritans who banned Christmas fun in the 1600s. I know that they have all been dead for 350 years, that shouldn’t stop you from wreaking your revenge through cheap sweeties.

I prefer Heroes myself but will eat Roses under duress.

How come we used to eat 3kg of Quality Street and still be skinny?

No you don't have to have trashy chocolates. I love Christmas, am not a puritan and am definitely not super-healthy. I just prefer to eat good chocolate that doesn't taste like sugary wax. I'll eat it if it's there, because sugar is bloody addictive, but I'd never choose to buy Roses, Quality Street, Heroes etc and definitely not Thorntons, which are the most disappointing of all (considering that they used to be made of proper chocolate).

I'm doing a Lidl run later or tomorrow. Anyone know if they've got their nice chocolate available in selection tubs?

Mrs Hathaway Aldi are doing violet creams this year, in their Moser Roth brand. I really like Moser Roth chocs, the ones I've tried so far anyway.

Indeed. I have tested them thoroughly and wrapped a third box for DC3 to give me for Christmas.

Alas they only have them seasonally.

Oh dear. Do we have to put a ‘light hearted’ caveat on every post now, in case anybody thinks that not liking Quality Street means that they are suspected of Puritanism?

Cadburys are still the best IMO. So Roses for me.

Our Lidl have Stollen. mmmm. That pisses on chocolate anyway. Especially the apple one - altho i haven't seen that yet. They strangely have poppy seed ones, which i shall have to try.

Nettle - if you do like quality street, your a babykiller according to tittygonotsolightheartedly, so you can't win!

YOU'RE! Not your. Damn you, iPhone.

Right then off to Lidl with hope in my heart! Even if they don't have suitable chocolate tubs, there'll be spekulatien biscuits mmmm.

Well, I don't buy Nestle or Cadburys so it's Celebrations all the way for me.

You STAR Practice!

Straight into my Amazon basket