Quality Street lacking in 'quality' or is it me...

[Bearnecessity]

So have thrown in the towel early this week and have just quaffed my first chocs and was less than impressed by the chocolate. I am quite prepared to believe it is just me...not as I remember but my taste buds do seem all over the show generally post-menopause.What is your verdict?

My 12 year old agrees with you. (And so do I)

good to know @passthemustard...thank you...

I think they've increased the proportion of palm oil in a lot of chocolate, and it's nowhere near as nice. Quality Street needs to be renamed "Poor Quality Street" imo. Mars bars and all sorts of other chocolate stuff just taste shite now.

On the bright side, I've actually lost a bit of weight because I rarely eat it these days!

Interested to know how many green triangles you got, op? If you haven't eaten them already can you count them as hearing horror stories there's only two or three per tin and loads of toffee pennies and I'll be taking them back if there's not enough!

I have treated myself to a personalised tin of QS this year. No green triangles (the Devil's bogeys) or coconut or minging orange crispy things or bleurgh strawberry creams. I have gone for the purple one, the penny toffee, caramel, orange cream (for one of my five a day) an the solid chocolate one. I am waiting for it to arrive so will be able to judge the quality of the chocolate then but at least I'll have the decent fillings.

there are some people who like the toffee pennies, I think I read about it on here but not come across it IRL

Me, me! My favourite is the toffee finger, second favourite is the toffee penny!

madness

Quality Street are a bit shit

I suspect they always have been but as a child who has never tried good quality chocolate you don't realise this

I don't generally 'waste my points' on crap chocolate anymore but there are a few which are edible (coconut, hazelnut whirls, green triangle)

My dh is Canadian and we’d get a hexagon shaped box every year from my in-laws...it’s been at least 12 years since they have been good!

I agree, we stayed away from Roses and Quality Street this year. They used to be so good as well.

The last ones I tried were just awful. Sickly sweet and too hard with a nasty aftertaste. I hadn't had them for years so maybe I remembered them as being nicer.

Quality street have always been horrible. I never liked them as a kid.
Heroes are where it's at.

Hope not. Just bought a tin today and it's hidden in my wardrobe away from the hoards 😭

Always think it's really cheap chocolate, and soapy

Quality street et al have always been rubbish.

I had a Quality Street today (not had one for years) and yep, was not v nice

We opened ours and thought they were tasteless.

We opened a box today too and thought they were very average. I used to love things like Quality Streets, Roses and Milk Tray in the early 90s but they all taste crap now with all the added palm oil

I love them I love the strawberry creams, orange creams, green triangles, and toffee fingers.

Which tub used to contain coffee creams? Roses? I mourn the loss of them

I bought them for ds and nostalgia really...I will be donating the other bags to community store cupboard ...heroes...hmmm...

This comes up every year, it's the same with Creme Eggs.

Meant to say only two green triangles....

Cheap shit chocolate, packed with cheap shit palm oil. It's nothing like the Quality Street you remember from the 80s or 90s.

And it's owned by Nestle.

I love them. Favourites are the strawberry ones and orange ones. Can't tell a difference in the taste.