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What has happened to Quality Street??

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MomOfTwoGirls2 · 31/12/2019 20:26

I bought a small carton of Quality Street today, more for nostalgia than anything. I used to love Quality Street many years ago when I was a teen. I hadn’t had them in years.
I now only like the 2 toffee sweets!!
Have they changed? Or is it my taste buds that have changed?

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Cryingoverspilttea · 31/12/2019 20:27

Palm oil. Palm oil. Palm oil.

And they've got rid of the best ones too. They're disgusting and have gone the way of Roses etc.

TowerRavenSeven · 31/12/2019 20:27

I noticed they changed more than 10 years ago but they were from Canada!

70sWitch · 31/12/2019 20:28

They've changed. It's not you. Palm oil is the culprit.

fantasmasgoria1 · 31/12/2019 20:29

I have always hated quality street! Always preferred roses!

70sWitch · 31/12/2019 20:29

See also Cadbury. Crown Sad

Li11ibet · 31/12/2019 20:48

Agreed. They also smell really chemically this year too. And hate the new flavour caramel. Not much going for them now sadly. Same as Roses Xmas Angry

Gingernaut · 31/12/2019 20:54

Palm oil.

Nestlé

1Morewineplease · 31/12/2019 20:58

Yep.. palm oil. Also the chocolates are less interesting.
They have gone the same way as other chocolate manufacturers eg Cadbury’s .
I’ve always loved chocolate, in large quantities too, but have barely touched the stuff these last few years.

iWantToBreakBrie · 31/12/2019 21:00

Yup, palm oil came along and shagged our childhood chocolate.

Roses are even worse. They don't even have nice wrappers anymore.

SabineUndine · 31/12/2019 21:03

I've had Roses and they are making a big deal out of this chocolate truffle of theirs. Well, it's minging. The chocolate is rubbish too, since Kraft bought out Cadbury's.

meow1989 · 31/12/2019 21:06

Oh I'm glad someone else noticed the smell. I thought someone had been sick when we opened a tin in the office.

Louise91417 · 31/12/2019 21:06

Iv had a rummage through 2 tins over christmas.. where the hell has the green triangles gone..are they weening us off them???? And dont start me on the new "brownie"Shock

HabbyHadno · 31/12/2019 21:08

OMG yes the smell. I kept saying it smelled of farts when we opened it.

HouseworkAvoider10 · 31/12/2019 21:22

Palm oil.

Goawayquickly · 31/12/2019 21:24

Yep they’re horrible as are Roses and most chocolate now. Also Baileys has been given the cheaper treatment I think, unbearably sweet now and much thinner.

Karenisbaren · 31/12/2019 21:30

I bought to tubs fcor Christmas, will not be buying them again, they all just taste samey.

ManiacalLapwing · 31/12/2019 21:35

I think maybe a combination of taste buds and chocolates changing. I can only eat some milk chocolate now but not a lot of the ones I enjoy either, it's the darker the better these days.

AllergicToAMop · 31/12/2019 21:38

I haven't even bought them this year and having a christmas box of them was the first tradition I adopted when mlving hereXmas Hmm

salty78 · 31/12/2019 21:39

When they got rid of the peanut cracknel it was over for me.

ManiacalLapwing · 31/12/2019 21:40

Quality Street is Nestle so I wouldn't buy them myself because I support the boycott, but Roses are just as horrible.

Sexnotgender · 31/12/2019 21:42

Revolting now, have absolutely no interest in them anymore.

VioletCharlotte · 31/12/2019 21:44

They're not very nice at all anymore. I bought one tin this year and it's still 3/4 full. Even the teen DS won't eat them.

IceBearRocks · 31/12/2019 21:44

The chocolate brownies taste like farts !

elizabethdraper · 31/12/2019 21:47

Palm oil and Nestle are the problem

AllergicToAMop · 31/12/2019 21:47

The thing is that these changes are EVERYWHERE. I am not from Uk. I took my husband to my country of birth and bought us quark style ice lollies covered in chocolate i LOVED when young. He tasted it and pulled a face. I swiftly told him off that it's just different taste buds and it's rude to pull a face like that (admittedly bit touchy about my happy childhood memories there) and then I tasted it.
I apologised, took it off him and put it in a bin. It was disgusting. So much fat/oil. Just horrible.
I blame customers too. People want everything cheap so companies pull this oil shit and get away woth it