To expect quality street tins to have roughly equal amounts of each sweet?

[Allthequalitystreet]

I have just opened a 2kg tin and found it had 26 coconut, 25 fudge, 25 toffee penny. 8 green triangle. 8 purple one. 9 orange crunch etc.

To me that's not an acceptable mix in a tin marketed as an assortment with each sweet shown with equal weighting on the side of the tin.

AIBU?

In addition, if you have a new tin yourselves and are willing to count, please post what proportions you've got.

I am sure loads of you will be tempted to post that iabu for liking quality street at all but a) it's that smell of christmas when you open the tin and b) not the point of the thread.

TIA

@Allthequalitystreet

Lockheart

Thank you - genuinely useful information.

They refer to recommended calorie levels though, wonder what on earth those are. If they are allowed to sell a bespoke tin containing only the higher calorie varieties (they are), if it was a simple as ensuring the RDA etc on tin is reasonable, they could simply change that nutritional reporting to allow for higher proportions of those higher calorie sweets and have roughly even proportions.

That's not up to them though, that's up to govt guidelines.

Bespoke tins (which are a glorified pick and mix) are not the same, just like it would be different if I bought a bag of Haribo vs going to the cinema pick and mix and filling my bag with the super calorific stuff.

Interestingly the photo @CallmeAngelina posted does seem to have broadly equal amounts of each type - by my count, 19 cremes, 24 chocolates, and 20 toffees / fudges.

@Notanothernamechanged101
Normally silly/funny responses with numerous people piling on to say which one is their favourite, we did get a box of twirl bites one year though as there was only one in the tub!

Roses, quality street, heroes and celebrations were all on offer here this week, but I only bought celebrations and heroes for exactly this reason. The proportions of good ones to shit ones ain't worth it.

I bin the toffee pennies

I LOVE toffee pennies

However OP you are not wrong. In any assortment, there ought to be an even distribution of flavours. We will all have our favourites / the ones we don't like, I'm sure, but, whether it is chocs in a QS tin, or colours in a pack of fruit gums or fruit pastilles, I can't understand why they would be anything other than an even distribution.

Controversially, our family have abandoned the tradition of having a tub of QS this year. They take out the nice ones, and shrink the tubs - we've all just decided we'd rather have chocs where we like them all.

Not a huge fan of any quality street myself but I completely agree. I guess it's the cheapest ones to make which are the majority which are also my least favourite. Had a box with none of the green ones before!

26 coconut YANBU.

I bin the toffee pennies

Sorry to come back to this.
Why wouldn't you give them to someone who likes them ?

@BeneficiaryMadness

Every year we open our various tubs celebration/heroes/quality street, sort all the sweets into rows, from most to least, then tweet the manufacturer to tell them how disappointed we are 😀

You're doing it wrong. You need to get into the shitty low tier papers (mirror/mail etc.) with a sad face photo of you all with your sweets. I mean, they print those stories about women who've bought something online that looks funny when they put it on, so they'll basically print any old complaints.

@kwiksavenofrillsusername

I’ll get the kids prepped for next week!

Lockheart you seem knowledgable - which government regulation is that that they are abiding by? I've done some googling but not finding it.

Ps if there really is some government regulation that means I've got to put up with 26 coconuts I'm starting a petition. Change.org won't know what's hit it.

For the last couple of years B&M, Superdrug & Wilko have had a giant Strawberry Cremes filled ONLY with Strawberry Cremes. It’s amazing as they’re my favourite and I hate coconut. This year I ordered some from a local patisserie/chocolate shop. Looking forward to them 😀.

Sadly, QS has been consigned to 'Christmases Past' in my house. After 45 years!

There's only so much piss-take I can accept! Like many, we as a family, loved the purple ones, the green triangles, coffee-creme 😢 the strawberry and orange creme, fudge; then the toffee ones, lastly coconut.

They should be evenly distributed. They're not.

They're taking the mick; Heroes and Celebration it is.

Hope QS marketing are reading this!

It's cheeky. And no coffee creams now in any. I got a box a few years ago from M&S one Cristmas. Never seen them again.,

@kwiksavenofrillsusername

Yanbu coconut are the worst ones

Don’t Thornton’s do a coffee box selection. I’m looking into that for me.

I always look at the bowl with the Snickers left over and realise that Christmas is over!

@Singlebutmarried

I’m mostly passed off no one does coffee cremes anymore.

Yes me too the best thing in a tin of roses (when they used to be nice) where the coffee creams, I don’t bother with roses anymore they are rank.

I'm not buying any of that shite chocolate this year because I'm not putting on half a stone eating chocolate breakfast lunch and tea which is always what happens when I buy those tins of shite be it Quality Street Roses or Celebrations.

I’m mostly passed off no one does coffee cremes anymore.

If you can see Whittakers of Skipton chocolates anywhere they do a sublime coffee cream, I so miss their shop in the High Street, we used to buy all kinds of off-cuts, we once got a huge bag of those corporate chocolates, the sort you get on your pillow, some were made for the Royal Yacht, obviously a long time ago.

www.whitakerschocolates.com/shop/boxes-of-chocolates/fondant-creams/coffee-creams-dark-chocolate/

I was feeling quite outraged about too many Toffee Pennies and then some PP upthread mentioned Revels [and their even distribution].

Now all I want is a Quality Street plastic hexibox sized container full of Revels. It's not much to ask for is it?

Iceland did boxes of coffee creams last year but they are a fondant I want a cream, so much harder to find.

I'd only buy QS if i could get a tin with only green triangles, purple ones, coconut eclair and chocolate caramel brownie or milk choc block if that wasn't available. It would be good if you could pick them online to fill a tin

I'll swap you all my orange crunch for your surplus toffee pennies.