Do you consider Celebrations and Heroes as classic Christmas chocolates

[MySillyCrab]

Can you settle a debate, do you consider Celebrations and Heroes classic Christmas chocs?

I don’t , only Roses and Quality Street are imo

Yes. Those four tins are always out at Christmas. I dont really see or remember the them before.

All wrong. Terry’s chocolate orange.

No! They’re much too modern.

No, only Roses and Quality street

Yes, especially since Roses and Quality Street are ruined.
Real classic Christmas chocolate: Milk Tray

We just get a big box of Hotel Chocolat, never bother with Quality Street, Roses, Celebrations or Miniature Heroes.

Neapolitans

Quality Street, thank you. Roses are awful. Heroes and Celebrations are parvenu chocolates.

Honourable exceptions may be made for Lindt and Ferrero Rocher.

They're all disgusting palm oil laden slop.

No, they are available all year round. THE Christmas chocolate for me was Terry's Neapolitans which were only available around Christmas. Unfortunately they stopped making them years ago.

Depends on one’s age surely.
Quality Street was a classic (sadly no longer).
Roses are the upstart (or maybe we just didn’t have them at home).
Heroes and Celebrations are ubiquitous but not classic: modern.

All are pretty gross though. We’ve added M&S Big Mix this year for the shiny wrappers. It’s still palm oil though bleaghh

I do now, but I know they’re new (to me) really - the classics from my childhood were Roses and Quality Street.

Yeah, those two are definitely the Primark of the chocolate world. Quality Street aren’t a patch on what they used to be but they’re still a million times better than boring old Celebrations. Can’t think of a single thing special about a mini Bounty bar.

But really, they all taste pretty crap now. Chocolate isn't chocolate these days, certainly not the stuff you get in a supermarket, anyway.

No because they weren’t a thing when I was growing up (80s). Back then there were roses and quality street, perhaps Thorntons if being posh
these days we are snobs and only eat hotel chocolat and Lindt. And def not roses or quality street.

Ooh tough one!

I’m almost 40, so as a child it was absolutely only Roses and Quality St.

But my young DCs love all 4, so going forwards the 2 more modern ones (Heroes and Celebrations) will be viewed as more ‘traditional’ too.

Only these are what I think of as Christmas chocolates:

Quality Street
Ferero Rocher
After Eights
Chocolate Orange
Liqueurs

Yep. Are they even available at other times of the year? I only see any of these at Christmas. Hate Quality Street and Roses so only ever get Heroes and Celebrations, for DC more than me. I like a terrys chocolate orange.

I’d love an original box of Black Magic. The height of sophistication!

No, Roses, Quality Street and After Eights with the possible addition of fruit jellies are classics. Celebrations and Heroes are still new kids on the block. Might just be showing my age there! 😂

Roses and Quality Street.

Wrapped in foil.

In a tin (which can be used for storing "stuff" for years afterwards).

The minute they put Quality Street in those nonsensical wrappers they were DEAD to me. I save the sodding planet all year round. The ONE THING I cannot compromise on is Quality Street is stupid wrappers that bleed dye all over anything when they are wet.

“See the face you love light up with Terry’s All Gold”.

God, I miss those huge 2.5kg tins of Quality Street, with the drawings of the Victorian people on them. It was that, a bowl of nuts and those long packs of dates (maybe some Turkish delight in a wooden box too) and that was Christmas!

Edited to change the size of the tins - they were even bigger than I thought!

Maybe a tin of Danish butter cookies as well.