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

That's one situation where there'd be no such thing as too big

Strawberry and orange creams are the best. DH hates them. Also he only likes chicken breast whereas I prefer legs. It works out well and probably worth including things like this on your dating profile.

You're not wrong @Oysterbabe

I suspect they do this for cost reasons. The ones with the cheapest ingredients are produced in higher quantities. Things with nuts in particular I'm guessing are more pricey.

I complained about only having three coffee chocolates in a 600g Roses tub a few years ago and was given a £5 voucher.

Same way I feel about fruit gums. Always loads of black ones in a packet, never enough green which are obviously the best flavour.

I'm obsessed now with coffee creams. I googled them. Fatal. Never heard of Friars chocolates. But they do boxes of them. Not cheap. But think I'll have to try them. And Thorntons.

Viviennemary Whitakers do lovely coffee creams. They're normally £1.99 but they're currently on offer for £1:49. www.whitakerschocolates.com/shop/boxes-of-chocolates/fondant-creams/coffee-creams-dark-chocolate/

Oh dear I’ve just seen that chocolate website looks wonderful and cheap as well.

Things with nuts in particular I'm guessing are more pricey.

Yes, clearly they are. It comes back to ‘what do you expect if you think that a tub of Quality Street should cost £4.50’, doesn’t it?

It's well known that they are not equal amounts of each sweet. Next year go to John Lewis where you can choose what you want in the tin.

I hate soft centres, orange and strawberry creams

This is a truly important thread and that real-life graph of sweet types is the best thing I have seen all day.

Strawberry creams are the best ones, by the way.

@MercyBooth they will know for sure how many calories are in the tubs/packs of just purple ones or just red ones etc. When it’s a mixture they have to make an educated guess in order to be able to say things like ‘100g of these sweets are X% of your daily calories’ etc and I think Lockhart meant that it’s these figures that are set by the Gov. The guidance on calories for men and women per day. Think it was the OP querying that, sorry if I misunderstood.

Slightly off topic but I can’t even think what is in a tub of roses. There’s a swirly hazelnut thing maybe but can’t for the life of me remember what else!

Purple ones and toffee pennies/fingers are our favourites! We usually end up taking the ghastly soft centres into work to get rid of them!! Never enough of the ones we like..

This thread has inspired me to go to the website direct and order a personalised tin, just with the ones I want in it!

Roses sweets have changed a lot over the years. Anyone else remember Montelimar or Almond Charm?

Roses Discontinued chocs.

Discontinued varieties
UK, Isle of Man & Republic of Ireland

Brazilian Darkness - A chewy toffee square coated in dark chocolate (red wrapper with gold edges).
Praline Moment - Silver foil wrapped.
Chunky Truffle - Shaped like a chocolate brick, wrapped in blue foil.
Bournville - Small bar of Bournville Dark Chocolate. Moved brand to Cadbury Heroes.
Almond Charm - Blue foil-wrapped milk chocolate, with almond nut pieces.
Coffee Creme - Coffee flavoured, fondant cream soft centre, covered in dark chocolate.
Montelimar - Chewy nougat, encased in milk chocolate; green foil-twist wrapper.
Marzipan - Piece of marzipan, encased in dark chocolate, Red foil-twist wrapper.
Turkish Delight - Rectangular shaped, dark purple foil wrapped.
Nutty Truffle Log - Log shaped; emerald green foil-twist wrapper
Orange Crisp - Orange wrapper.
Chocolate Bite - Pink wrapper.
Noisette Whirl - Green and transparent wrapper.
Lime Barrel - Green wrapper.
Black Cherry Cream - pink/purple wrapper.
Cadbury Dairy Milk - One rectangular chunk of Cadbury Dairy Milk chocolate divided into two squares (classic purple plastic-foil twist-wrapper, bearing 'Cadbury Dairy Milk' and the traditional 'glass and a half' logo). Moved brand to Cadbury Heroes. For many years this was the only chocolate in the selection where the wrapper did not bear the 'Cadbury Roses' logo - all others did.
Caramel Velvet - Green wrapper.
Almond Caramel Bite - Soft and chewy caramel, with many small pieces of almond (light brown wrapper with purple twists).
Australia

This man's tin of QS wouldn't suit me at all. Loads of my least favourite ones and hardly any nice ones!
www.mirror.co.uk/news/weird-news/man-counts-up-contents-quality-23092701

Thanks to the poster who mentioned coffee creams from B & M. Got three boxes. Put two away for Christmas. But I expect I'll eat them before that. Only £1 for box of 15. Amazing.

This is interesting. I’d offer to count but have shamefully already opened my tin and eaten loads