Quality street are boring, now they don't have shiny wrappers

[Toddlerteaplease]

They are just so boring when you look into the tin! I know they aren't the most exciting chocolatess. But there was something a kit the shiny wrappers!

OMG. Just opened the quality street tin, as is traditional for Christmas Eve. My god. The disappointment. The wrappers are awful! Last years were compostable but still shiny. Why change, they have totally lost the plot!

It would be more environmentally friendly to put them in a cardboard box (and keep the shiny wrappers)

The thing is that cellophane - the original wrapping that twists - is actually clear paper!

Many many moons ago I worked in plastic film packaging and that was the way you could tell if something was plastic (oriented polypropylene plastic if you want to be precise ) or cellophane: you scrunched it up and if it stayed scrunched it was cellophane and if it gradually unfolded it was plastic.

It was the holy grail to try to develop a plastic that twisted properly (and iirc, it was never properly achieved hence Cadbury's Flakes not having a proper twist any more ).

So Quality Street changing to obvious paper packaging is just virtue signalling and probably weighs more than the original thinner cellophane (not much extra on an an individual tin but it adds up) Maybe it's so that they can get away with fewer sweets by weight in a box/tin/bag